Angus Nurse is Associate Professor of Environmental Justice at Middlesex University School of Law where he teaches and researches Criminology and Law. Angus has research interests in criminality, critical criminal justice, animal and human rights law, anti-social behaviour and green criminology.
Angus is also a member of the Wild Animal Welfare Committee (WAWC) and has worked in the environmental NGO field and as an Investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman. His books include Policing Wildlife (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Animal Harm: Perspectives on Why People Harm and Kill Animals (Ashgate, 2013) and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes, Consequences and Remedies (Policy Press, 2018) co-authored with Sam Poyser and Rebecca Milne.

The Citizen and the State examines the conflict between criminal justice and civil liberties from a critical criminology perspective. It argues that far from being a search for truth or justice, contemporary criminal justice represents the power of the state against the individual.