Nick Cowen is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Lincoln. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at King’s College London on the political economy of distributive justice. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from University College London and an M.Phil. in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. Cowen was a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute from 2016 to 2019 and continues as a Program Affiliate Scholar. He has published his research, among other places, in the American Journal of Political Science, The British Journal of Criminology, and Critical Review. His research explores the epistemic challenges of maintaining a stable society with minimal reliance on the exercise of power.