Mark Walters is a an Adjunct Professor in Criminal Law and Hate Studies at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, and Honorary Professor of Law at Sussex Law School. His research interests are focused primarily on hate crime studies, as well as criminal law and criminal justice reform with a special emphasis on restorative justice practice and theory. Mark's research has a particular focus on anti-LGBTQ+ hate and LGBTQ+ rights more broadly.
Mark completed his doctorate in law (criminology) specialising in hate crime and restorative justice at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (2012). He has also completed an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) at the Centre for Criminology University of Oxford (2008), an LLM specialising in criminal justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2006), and an LLB, at the University of Sussex (2002).
Books
M A Walters (lead), I Awan, H Hagerlid, A Kondakov and J Schweppe (eds), The European Handbook on Hate Crime (De Gruyter, forthcoming 2025).
S Kyd, T Elliot, M A Walters and D Bansal, Clarkson & Keating: Criminal Law (11th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2024).
M A Walters, Criminalising Hate: Law as Social Justice Liberalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
J Schweppe and M A Walters (eds), The Globalization of Hate: Internationalising Hate Crime? (Oxford University Press 2016).
M A Walters, Hate Crime and Restorative Justice: Exploring Causes, Repairing Harms (Oxford University Press 2014).
Refereed Journal Articles
M A Walters, ‘Conceptualising Hate Crime as Group Oppression’ (2025) Theoretical Criminology 0(0). <;.
J L Paterson, M A Walters, R Brown and D Carrasco, ‘Angry and Afraid: Exploring the Impact of Mixed Emotional Reactions to Hate Crimes with LGBT+ and Muslim Communities’ (2024) 40(17–18) Journal of Interpersonal Violence 4154–4180.
M A Walters, ‘Legalising Transphobia: From Courtroom to Legislature, How Gender-Critical Activism Is Hurting Us All’ (2024) 51(3) Journal of Law and Society 343–366.
J L Paterson, M A Walters and L Hall, ‘In-Group Empathy, Help and Blame After Anti-LGBT+ Hate Crime’ (2023) 39(3–4) Journal of Interpersonal Violence 707–734.
S Wiedlitzka, G Prati, R Brown, J Smith and M Walters, ‘Hate in Word and Deed: The Temporal Association Between Online and Offline Islamophobia’ (2023) 39 Journal of Quantitative Criminology 75–96.
M A Walters (lead), J L Paterson and R Brown, ‘Enhancing Punishment or Repairing Harms? Perceptions of Sentencing Hate Crimes Amongst Members of a Commonly Targeted Victim Group’ (2021) 61(1) British Journal of Criminology 61–84.
You can see Mark's full list of publications on his .