My husband, Mick Ryan, who has died aged 82, was emeritus professor of penal politics on the College of Greenwich, in London. Mick joined what was then Thames Polytechnic in 1973 to show politics.
After some early collaborative work on London Docklands regeneration and parliamentary scrutiny of European laws, he took an interest within the organisation Radical Options to Jail (RAP) and printed his first ebook, The Acceptable Strain Group, about it and the Howard League, in 1978.
He turned more and more concerned in radical criminology. He was chair of Inquest, a charity offering experience on state-related deaths and their investigation, and his ebook Lobbying from Under (1996) remains to be used as a part of workers induction at Inquest. Mick was an inspirational instructor in politics and criminology and he was spoken of by former college students with nice appreciation.
The youngest of 4 kids, Mick was born in Waterford, south-east Eire, to Doris (nee Bouchier) and Robert Ryan. His father, a decorator from London, was working within the nation modernising cinemas, however quickly joined the military. When Mick was two years outdated, Doris took the youngsters again to her house in Southampton, the place she introduced them up alone.
Mick had an extended path to his tutorial profession. Hindered by truancy and poor eyesight, he failed his eleven-plus and was positioned in a faculty during which college students took no exams. After he gained a regional chess championship, he was re-assessed by instructional psychologists and finally went to Itchen grammar faculty. From there he educated as a instructor at Bognor Regis Faculty (now the College of Chichester), West Sussex, after which started work in a faculty in east London.
In London he met and married Elizabeth Wardle, a fellow instructor. She inspired and supported him to get a level, and he went to Leicester College in 1966. He and Elizabeth agreed to separate two years later. After graduating in politics, and instructing for a 12 months, Mick did a postgraduate diploma on the College of Sheffield, earlier than becoming a member of Thames Polytechnic. He formally retired from Greenwich in 2007 however continued to show part-time and supervise MA college students.
Within the Nineteen Eighties Mick had joined the European Group for the Research of Deviance and Social Management and labored with colleagues in producing books with a European dimension, as an example Western European Penal Techniques (1995), with Joe Sim and Vincenzo Ruggiero. He remained dedicated to analysis and writing till Parkinson’s illness restricted him.
Mick and I met at Thames Polytechnic, the place I used to be a colleague and we married in 1976. I used to be a widow with three teenage kids, Hugh, Kate and Tim, and Mick quickly earned their love and respect. He’s survived by me, his stepchildren, 5 grandchildren, Bea, James, Alice, Amy and Patrick, and by a sister, Mary.
