Dr Jonathan Jackson (Senior Lecturer in Research Methodology)

Jonathan Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in Research Methodology in the Department of Methodology and member of the LSE's Mannheim Centre for Criminology|. Jon directs the Department of Methodology's MSc Social Research Methods|.

In the past couple of years he has held visiting scholar appointments at New York University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the University of Cambridge. In 2013 he will be a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. 

Jon’s research has three complementary strands. The first centres on procedural justice and legitimacy in the context of criminal justice. Do people trust their justice systems? Do they believe that the police and criminal courts have the right to hold power and influence?

The second centres on risk perception and fear of crime. How do people make sense of the threat of criminal victimisation? What are the psychological processes generating and sustaining emotional response and appraisal?

The third strand is methodological. Many constructs in the social sciences are not directly unobservable. We elaborate summarising concepts; we treat concepts as collective properties defined by their empirical indicants; and our measures provide common and shared understandings of the concepts.

Jon’s research focuses on the clarification and elaboration of key concepts at the intersection of criminology and psychology, often in the context of comparative research. For instance, he is working with European Social Survey data to implement new definitions of trust in justice and the legitimacy of legal authorities. He is additionally generating new ways of defining and measuring different types of experience at the heart of ‘fear of crime.’

Jon is also currently co-editing a collected volume entitled The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics (with Professor Jonathan Jacobs, Department of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice).

Some current and recent research projects

• Item Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Cross-National Surveys: Methods of Data Collection and Analysis.ESRC NCRM Methodological Innovation project
• Fiducia: New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy. European Commission 7th Framework Programme
• LCAT: Latent Variable Modelling of Categorical Data: Tools of Analysis for Cross-national Surveys. ESRC (finished July 2012)
• Trust in Justice: Module in Round 5 of the European Social Survey
• LEGIT: Policing by Consent and the Rule of Law in Democratic South Africa
• Experience and Expression in the Fear of Crime. ESRC (finished July 2007)

Books

• Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Stanko, E. A. and Hohl, K. (2012). Just Authority? Trust in the Police in England and Wales. Oxon: Routledge. See here for the first chapter.
• Farrall, S., Jackson, J. and Gray, E. (2009). Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Studies in Criminology. See here for the first chapter.

Selected papers on criminological topics

• Jackson, J., Huq, A., Bradford, B. and Tyler, T. R. (in press). ‘Monopolizing Force? Police Legitimacy and Public Attitudes towards the Acceptability of Violence’, Psychology, Public Policy and Law. link
• Kuha, J. and Jackson, J. (in press). ‘The Item Count Method for Sensitive Survey Questions: Modelling Criminal Behaviour’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). link
• Bradford, B., Huq, A., Jackson, J. and Roberts, B. (2013). 'What Price Fairness when Security is at Stake? Antecedents of Police Legitimacy in South Africa’, Regulation & Governance, doi: 10.1111/rego.12012. link 
• Gerber, M. M. and Jackson, J. (2013). ‘Retribution as Revenge and Retribution as Just Deserts’, Social Justice Research, 26, 1, 61-80. link
• Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M., Myhill, A., Quinton, P., Tyler, T. R. (2012). 'Why do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions', British Journal of Criminology, 52, 6, 1051-1071. link   
• Roberts, J. V., Hough, M., Jackson, J. and Gerber, M. M. (2012). ‘Public Opinion towards the Lay Magistracy and the Sentencing Council Guidelines: The Effects of Information on Attitudes’, British Journal of Criminology, 52, 6, 1072-1091. link
• Jackson, J. (2011). 'Revisiting Risk Sensitivity in the Fear of Crime', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 48, 513-537. link
• Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M., Kuha, J., Stares, S. R., Widdop, S., Fitzgerald, R., Yordanova, M. and Galev, T. (2011). 'Developing European Indicators of Trust in Justice', European Journal of Criminology, 8, 4, 267-285. link. For an extended online version, see here
• Gray, E., Jackson, J. and Farrall, S. (2011). 'Feelings and Functions in the Fear of Crime: Applying a New Approach to Victimisation Insecurity', British Journal of Criminology, 51, 1, 79-94. link 
• Jackson, J. and Gray, E. (2010). 'Functional Fear and Public Insecurities about Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 50, 1, 1-22. link 
• Jackson, J. and Bradford, B. (2009). ‘Crime, Policing and Social Order: On the Expressive Nature of Public Confidence in Policing’, British Journal of Sociology, 60, 3, 493-521. link  
• Jackson, J. (2009). ‘A Psychological Perspective on Vulnerability in the Fear of Crime’, Psychology, Crime and Law, 15, 4, 365-390. link
• Jackson, J. and Stafford, M. (2009). 'Public Health and Fear of Crime: A Prospective Cohort Study', British Journal of Criminology, 49, 6, 832-847. link 
• Jackson, J. and Sunshine, J. (2007). 'Public Confidence in Policing: A Neo-Durkheimian Perspective', British Journal of Criminology, 47, 2, 214-233. link
• Jackson, J. (2006). 'Introducing Fear of Crime to Risk Research', Risk Analysis, 26, 1, 253-264. link
• Jackson, J. (2004). 'Experience and Expression: Social and Cultural Significance in the Fear of Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 44, 6, 946-966. link

Some recent book chapters and reports on criminological topics

• Hough, M., Bradford, B., Jackson, J. and Roberts, J. (2013, forthcoming). Attitudes to Sentencing and Trust in Justice: Exploring Trends from the Crime Survey of England and Wales. London: Ministry of Justice. 
• Jackson, J. and Gouseti, I. (2013, forthcoming). ‘Fear of Crime and the Psychology of Risk’, entry in Bruinsma, G. and Wesiburd, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer-Verlag. link
• Tyler, T. R. and Jackson, J. (2013, forthcoming). ‘Future Challenges in the Study of Legitimacy and Criminal Justice’, in Tankebe, J. and Liebling, A. (eds.) Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. link  
• Hough, M., Jackson, J. and Bradford, B. (2013, forthcoming). ‘The Governance of Criminal Justice, Legitimacy and Trust’, in Body-Gendrot, S., Lévy, R., Hough, M. Snacken, S. and Kerezsi, K. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology. Oxon: Routledge. link
• Bradford, B., Jackson, J. and Hough, M. (2013, forthcoming). ‘Police Legitimacy in Action: Lessons for Theory and Practice’, in Reisig, M. & Kane, R. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. link
• Bradford, B., Jackson, J. and Hough, M. (2013, forthcoming). 'Police Futures and Legitimacy: Redefining ‘Good Policing', in Brown, J. (ed), The Future of Policing. Oxon: Routledge. link. (Invited position paper for the Stevens' Independent Commission on the Future of Policing in England & Wales).
• Brunton-Smith, I., Sutherland, A. and Jackson, J. (2013, forthcoming). 'The Role of Neighbourhoods in Shaping Crime and the Fear of Crime', in van Ham, M. (ed.) Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems? A Policy Context. Springer. link
• Brunton-Smith, I. and Jackson, J. (2012). 'Urban Fear and its Roots in Place', in Ceccato, V. (ed.) Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear. Springer, pp. 55-82. link  
• Gray, E., Jackson, J. and Farrall, S. (2011). ‘In Search of the Fear of Crime: Using Interdisciplinary Insights to Improve the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Everyday Insecurities’, in Gadd, D., Karstedt, S. and Messner, S. (eds.), Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods. London: Sage Publications, pp. 268-281. link 
• Jackson, J. (2008). ‘Bridging the Social and the Psychological in the Fear of Crime’, in Lee, M. and Farrall, S. (eds.), Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 143-167. link

Selected papers on other topics

• Gaskell, G., Allansdottir, A., Allum, N., Castro, P., Esmer, Y., Fischler, C., Jackson, J., Kronberger, N., Hampel, J., Mejlgaard, N., Quintanilha, A., Rammer, A., Revuelta, G., Stares, S., Torgersen, H. and Wagner, W. (2011). 'The 2010 Eurobarometer on the Life Sciences', Nature Biotechnology, 29, 2, 113-114. link   
• Mulford, M., Jackson, J. and Svedsater, H. (2008). ‘Encouraging Cooperation: Revisiting Group Identity and Cooperative Norm Effects in Prisoners’ Dilemma Games’, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 12, 2964-2989. link
• Gaskell, G., Einsiedel, E., Hallman, W., Hornig Priest, S., Jackson, J. and Olsthoorn, J. (2005). 'Social Values and the Governance of Science', Science, 310, 1908-1909. link
• Gaskell, G., Ten Eyck, T., Jackson, J. and Veltri, G. (2005). 'Imagining Nanotechnology: Cultural Support for Innovation in Europe and the United States', Public Understanding of Science, 14, 1, 81-90. link
• Gaskell, G., Ten Eyck, T., Jackson, J. and Veltri, G. (2004). 'Public Attitudes to Nanotech in Europe and the United States', Nature Materials, 3, 8, 496. link 

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