Alain Bauer
Alain Bauer is a French criminologist who has been a professor of criminology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers since 2009. He is also a senior research fellow at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the China University of Political Science and Law. There were many protests in the scientific community in France against the appointment because he had not received a PhD.
Career
As an elected student on the "U.N.E.F. I.D." list, a socialist organisation, he was the youngest vice president of the Sorbonne in charge of Finances and Administration, an office he held from 1982 to 1989. Afterwards, he became an advisor on national security to Prime Minister Michel Rocard from 1988 to 1990.Bauer was elected Professor of Criminology at the National Conservatory for Arts and Crafts under CNAM in Paris in 2010. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In 2006 and 2007, he has been appointed at the French Commission on police data control and of the French Working Group on Policing. He also worked as an advisor to the New York City Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Sûreté du Québec.
He was appointed in August 2007 by President Nicolas Sarkozy to reorganise the French system on studies and research on security and strategy, focusing on the creation of a national security council. Bauer was also an advisor for the French industrial company Lafarge between 2007 and 2014.
He defends his doctoral thesis in law: Crime and criminology: a legal, political and social archaeology, under the supervision of Christian Vallar, on December 14, 2016, at the University of Côte d'Azur.
Bauer became the President of the College of the National Council for Private Security Activities in 2012. Bauer was succeeded in the elected position in 2017 by the engineer Valérie Derouet. Derouet had been a vice-president of the college from 2015 to 2017.
Awards
- Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France, 2000–2003
- Chancellor of the International Masonic Institute since 2003
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Captain of the National Order of Merit, of the National Order of Academic Palms, of the National Order of Arts and Letters
- Grand Cross of the Lafayette Order
Works
Violence et Insécurité urbaines l'Amérique, la violence, le crime la Guerre ne fait que commencer les Polices en France le Crime aux Etats-Unis, les Polices aux Etats-Unis Imaginer la sécurité globale Etat d'urgence, Deux siècles de débats républicains et Dico rebelle l'Enigme Al Qaïda Mercenaires et polices privées Géographie de la France criminelle les Polices au Québec Mieux contrôler les fichiers de police World Chaos, Early Detection and Proactive Security Les mystères de Channel Row Radicalization in the West L’année stratégique 2008 Le nouveau chaos mondial L’esprit des lumières est il perdu République, Républiques Pour une stratégie globale de sécurité nationale Vidéosurveillance et vidéoprotection Le 11 Septembre 100 Mots pour comprendre l’actualité Au commencement était la guerre, Fayard, 2023, 486 p..Tu ne tueras point, Fayard, 2024,.- Avec Alexis Deprau et Gilles Ferragu, Juger les terrorismes. Regards croisés de la criminologie, du droit et de l'histoire, éditions du Cerf, avril 2024