Criminal landlords in the shadow private rented sector in England. [Short report].

The concept of ‘rogue landlords’ has strong currency within policy frameworks in England, and have been mentioned as a specific target for intervention in the Renters' Rights Act, passed in October 2025. This project, taking a lead from a 2020 report Journeys in the Shadow Private Rented Sector, has completed a large-scale study of landlord-perpetrated crime and for the first time draws together combined expertise from criminology, housing policy and housing law. The research has considered modes of criminality in the private rented sector; the ways that the PRS fosters and incubates criminality; and the ways in which landlord-perpetrated crimes are explained by perpetrators and excused by statutory agencies.