Dr Patrick Williams

Dr Patrick Williams undertakes community-centred research with a particular focus on racial, social and economic injustices across the criminal legal systems of the UK and Europe. He was Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Manchester Metropolitan University (2007-2024) before becoming Head of Research at Systemic Justice between 2022-2024.

Specialising in processes of criminalisation and surfacing the drivers of racial injustice across UK and European Criminal Legal Systems; data- and digital- harms; and the encroachment of technology into policing and law enforcement practices.

He is (co)author of ‘Being Matrixed: The (over)policing of ‘gang’ suspects in London’; ‘Dangerous Associations: Joint Enterprise, Gangs and Racism’; and ‘Data-driven policing: the hardwiring of discriminatory policing practice across Europe’.