Dario Melossi is Full Professor of Criminology in the
School of Law of the University of Bologna. After having being
conferred a law degree at this University, he went on to do a Ph.
D. in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He
was then Assistant and thereafter Associate Professor at the
University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1993. He has
published The Prison and the Factory (1977,
together with Massimo Pavarini), The State of Social
Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social
Control in the Making of Democracy (1990),
Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in
Europe and America (2008), and Crime, Punishment and Migration (2015), plus about 200 other edited
books, chapters, and articles. He has been Editor of
Studi sulla questione criminale and Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society (2012-2015). Between 2016 and 2019 he has been Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Criminology. He is member of the Board of many other professional journals. In
2007 he was conferred the "International Scholarship Prize" of the
Law and Society Association and in 2014 the "European Criminology
Award" of the European Society of Criminology. His current research
concerns the process of construction of deviance and social control
within the European Union, especially with regard to migration
processes.
