Kenneth George Pease OBE (born August 5, 1943)[1]: 3 is a British forensic psychologist and criminologist.
Previous positions he has held include Head of School of Sociology and Social Policy at the Ulster Polytechnic from 1981 to 1983, professor of criminology at the University of Huddersfield (where he founded the Applied Criminology Group in 1995),[2] the University of Manchester (where he was appointed to a professorial chair in 1990), the head of the Home Office's Policing and Reducing Crime Unit from 1999 to 2000,[1]: 6 advisor to the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme from 2000 to 2003, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan and consultant criminologist at the Correctional Service of Canada, working in the maximum security Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies), Saskatoon.
[3] Pease is married to Judith Anne "Judy" Parker, with whom he has two children - Nicholas John and Catherine Sally.
In 1997, Pease was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for "services to crime prevention".
In 2014, he received a commendation from the Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police in recognition of his work on their Operation Optimal.
Books Self Selection Policing (2016) London: Routledge, (with Jason Roach) Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism (2015).
Criminal Justice Systems of Europe and North America (1990) Helsinki: HEUNI.