Derek Layder
University of Leicester, UK
Biography
Derek Layder received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1976. He has been Lecturer (1974), Reader (1993), Professor (1997), Emeritus Professor (2001), at the University of Leicester UK. He held several visiting appointments and have authored 15 books and numerous articles, mainly on social theory and research methods. He is interested in integrating agential and structural (or ‘systemic’) approaches to society and social behaviour. To this end he developed the ‘theory of social domains’ (1997 & 2006) and ‘adaptive theory and method (1993,1998, 2014). When combined he refer this as Investigative Research.
Abstract
Abstract : Forensic Sociology: Towards an integrated research agenda