Dr Lambros Fatsis

City St George's, University of London

Lambros Fatsis specialises in and has published widely on the criminalisation of UK drill music and the history of policing against Black/Afro-diasporic music culture(s) from the era of colonial slavery to the present day. He is the author of Policing the Beats: Black Music, Racism and Criminal Injustice and works as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at City St. George’s University of London. In addition to his scholarly work, Lambros is also a core member of the Art Not Evidence campaign against the criminalisation of UK drill and Prosecuting Rap and he has worked as an expert witness for the defence in 12 cases that relied on drill music material as incriminating ‘evidence’ in court.