Dr Jonathan Jackson (Senior Lecturer in Research Methodology)

Jonathan Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Research Methodology in the Methodology Institute and member of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology. He has held visiting appointments at New York University and the Universities of Oxford, Sydney and Cambridge. Jon did doctoral and postdoctoral research in the Institute of Social Psychology at the LSE. 

Some current and recent research projects

• Fiducia: New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy. European Commission 7th Framework Programme
• Legit: Policing by Consent and the Rule of Law in Democratic South Africa
• LCAT: Latent Variable Modelling of Categorical Data - Tools of Analysis for Cross-national Surveys. ESRC
• Trust in Justice: Rotating Module in Round 5 of the European Social Survey
• STEPE: Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics. European Commission 7th Framework Programme (finished May 2011)
• EuroJustis: Scientific Indicators of Confidence in Justice. European Commission 7th Framework Programme (finished May 2011)
• 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.
• 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.

Selected papers on criminological topics

• Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M., Myhill, A., Quinton, P., Tyler, T. R. (in press). 'Why do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions', British Journal of Criminology. link
• Roberts, J. V., Hough, M., Jackson, J. and Gerber, M. M. (in press). ‘Out of Touch? Public Attitudes toward the Lay Magistracy and Sentencing Council Guidelines’, British Journal of Criminology.
• Stanko, E. A., Jackson, J., Bradford, B. and Hohl, K. (2012). 'A Golden Thread, a Presence amongst Uniforms, and a Good Deal of Data: Discourses of Confidence in the London Metropolitan Police', Policing and Society. iFirst  DOI:
  10.1080/10439463.2012.671825. link 
• European Social Survey (2011). 'Trust in Justice: Topline Findings from the European Social Survey', ESS Topline Results Series No.1. By Jackson, J., Hough, M., Bradford, B., Pooler, T. M., Hohl, K. and Kuha, J. link. In Spanish: 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 
• Hummelsheim, D., Hirtenlehner, H., Jackson, J. and Oberwittler, D. (2011). 'Social Insecurities and Fear of Crime: A Cross-National Study on the Impact of Welfare State Policies on Crime-Related Anxieties', European Sociological Review, 27, 3, 327-345. link
• Jackson, J. and Gray, E. (2010 ). 'Functional Fear and Public Insecurities about Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 50, 1, 1-22. link 
• Hough, M., Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Myhill, A. and Quinton, P. (2010). 'Procedural Justice, Trust and Institutional Legitimacy', Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 4, 3, 203-210. 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. 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. (2009). 'A Psychological Perspective on Vulnerability in the Fear of Crime', Psychology, Crime and Law, 15, 4, 365-390. link
• Bradford, B., Jackson, J. and Stanko, E. (2009). 'Contact and Confidence: Revisiting the Impact of Public Encounters with the Police', Policing and Society, 19, 1, 20-46. link
• Gray, E., Jackson, J. and Farrall, S. (2008). 'Reassessing the Fear of Crime', European Journal of Criminology, 5, 3, 363-380. 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

Selected book chapters on criminological topics

• Tyler, T. R., Jackson, J. and Bradford, B. (in press). 'Social Connections and Material Interests: On the Relational Basis of Voluntary Cooperation with Legal Authorities', chapter in Harris, N. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer-Verlag. link
• Brunton-Smith, I., Sutherland, A. and Jackson, J. (in press). '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., Springer.
• Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M. and Murray, K. H. (in press). 'Compliance with the Law and Policing by Consent: Notes on Police and Legal Legitimacy', chapter in Crawford, A. and Hucklesby, A. (eds.) Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice. Routledge. link  
• Brunton-Smith, I. and Jackson, J. (in press). 'Urban Fear and its Roots in Place', in Ceccato, V. (ed.) Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear. Springer. 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   
• Gaskell, G., Stares, S., Allansdottir, A., Allum, N., Castro, P., Esmer, Y., Fischler, C., Jackson, J., Kronberger, N., Hampel, J., Mejlgaard, N., Quintanilha, A., Rammer, A., Revuelta, G., Stoneman, P., Torgersen, H. and Wagner, W.. (2010). 'Europeans and Biotechnology in 2010: Winds of change?' Report to the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research. 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
• Callender, C. and Jackson, J. (2008). 'Does the Fear of Debt Constrain Choice of University and Subject of Study?', Studies in Higher Education, 33, 4, 405-429. link 
• Gaskell, G., Allansdottir, A., Allum, N., Hampel, J. Jackson, J., Kronberger, N., Revuelta, G., Schreiner, C., Stares, S., Torgersen, H. and Wagner, W. (2006). 'Europeans and biotechnology in 2005: Patterns and trends', Report to the European Commission's Directorate General for Research. 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
• Callender, C. and Jackson, J. (2005). 'Does the Fear of Debt Deter Students from Higher Education?', Journal of Social Policy, 34, 4, 509-540. 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 

Selected working papers

• 'Broadening the concept of police legitimacy: On the recognition and justification of police power' (with Bradford, B., Hough, M., Myhill, A., Quinton, P. and Tyler, T. R.)
• 'What price fairness when effectiveness is at stake? Antecedents of police legitimacy in South Africa' (with Bradford, B., Huq, A. and Roberts, B.)
• 'Function, threat and closure in the fear of crime'. link
• 'Police legitimacy and public attitudes towards private violence' (with Huq, A., Bradford, B. and Tyler, T. R.). link
• 'Authority and punishment: On the ideological basis of punitive attitudes towards criminals' (with Gerber, M. M.). link
• 'Worry about crime among European citizens: A latent class analysis of cross-national data' (with Kuha, J.). link
• 'Legitimacy and the social field of policing' (with Bradford, B.). link
• 'Trust in justice: Notes on the development of social indicators' (with Bradford, B. et al.). link
• 'Different things to different people: The meaning and measurement of trust and confidence in policing across diverse social groups in London' (with Bradford, B.). link 
• 'Decoding disorder: On public sensitivity to low-level deviance' (with Gray, E. and Brunton-Smith, I.). link

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