sentences:  He was elected president of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice in 1995 and has continued in the post ever since.From October to November 2003 he was visiting professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and from September to December 2004, visiting research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian University, Canberra.He has maintained a research interest in the revolutionary and Napoleonic era, but since the early 1980s his work has focused primarily on the history of crime and policing.