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BSc. Economics -- London School of Economics
The School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow -- to March 2013
Man Met Crime and Well-Being Big Data Centre, Director
Man Met Crime and Policing Network, Director
Urban Studies Journal -- Editor in Chief
Urban Studies Foundation -- Board Member
Q-Step -- Board Member
I teach on a variety of courses on the BA (Hons) Criminology.
The academic discipline of criminology considers a range of questions relating to crime, deviance and social control, in addition to the academic study of law making, law breaking and law enforcement. We provide an excellent understanding of trends in modern British society and its relationship with global trends. Our Criminology courses will provide you with an up-to-date appreciation of the criminal justice process and the key agencies operating within it, such as the police, courts and prisons. As you progress through this course, you will have increasing levels of flexibility, allowing you to pursue your own interests from a broad range of option units. This is supported by the use of innovative teaching methods, particularly interactive learning, and you will also develop a wide range of transferable skills, which will prove valuable for a wide range of graduate careers.
I teach on the Q-Step Applied Quantitative Methods Masters degree. This MSc approaches the study of quantitative methods in an innovative way, which emphasises career-ready skills that prepare students for work with data and quantitative analysis, or as suitable preparation for doctoral study. The course focuses on the development and application of key quantitative methods and analytical techniques. It focuses on the use of quantitative methods within ‘real world’ contexts and a key aim is to develop graduates’ career-ready skills in this field.
Joan Richardson (Year 3) - Emotions and Judicial Decision Making
Adam Westall (Year 3) - The Citizenry and the Policing of Communities
Samuel Langton (Year 1) - Individual and Neighbourhood Criminal Careers
Jon holds research concerns in the interrogation of urban disorder. In particular, he is interested in: the application of data science and advanced quantitative methodologies to investigate crime; the conceptual and empirical realities of civility, respect and tolerance in the public realm; trends in, and perceptions of, crime and antisocial behaviour at multiple spatial scales; youth gangs and territoriality; and, the prevention and management of disorder (interventions and systems of governance). He also holds a growing interest in knowledge mobilisation and civic development of social science.
Jon directs the Man Met Crime and Well-Being Big Data Centre, which is supported by a £1m research award. The centre draws together criminologists, health experts, data science and advanced quantitative methodologists with the aim of delivering world class research. The centre also aims to enhance the contribution of the University to civic life. By applying new computing solutions, innovative analytical approaches and advanced quantitative methodologies, we help our partners to save money and enhance their services through better demand analysis and forecasting. We help them to better understand and deal with such issues as mental health, domestic violence and drug and alcohol abuse. We also improve the ability of police teams to generate and apply evidence to increase operational effectiveness, deliver best value for money and achieve more for less.
Jon is also engaged in the Economic and Social Research Council funded (£3.2m) Applied Quantitative Methods Network, which seeks to explain the recent dramatic changes in crime across UK polities; the qualities of, and distinctions between, offender and victim profiles; the characteristics of criminal careers; and, the efficacy of criminal justice interventions.
Jon is Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Urban Studies and established the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) as the charitable parent body of Urban Studies. The Foundation supports urban research in the UK and abroad, with an emphasis on capacity building.
Jon is a co-founder of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR, 2006 -), which was underpinned by a £2.5m Scottish Funding Council award (co-applicant), subsequently augmented by £1 million policy-research contract from Scottish Government. SCCJR has expanded research capacity; supported international and national research funding partnerships; and directly informed Scottish Government law and order policy development.
Jon has undertaken numerous knowledge exchange activities beyond the academy. His research team helped design and launch the Safer Communities Scotland website (http://www.safercommunitiesscotland.org/). The website serves to share learning and information resources relevant to community safety practitioners. He also acts as a lecturer at the Scottish Police College.
J. Bannister, A. O’Sullivan, E. Bates (2019). Place and time in the Criminology of Place. Theoretical Criminology. 23(3), pp.315-332.
A. Kearns, M. Livingston, G. Galster, J. Bannister (2018). The Effects of Neighbourhood Offender Concentrations on the Number, Type and Location of Crimes Committed by Resident Offenders. The British Journal of Criminology. 59(3), pp.653-673.
J. Bannister, E. Bates, A. Kearns (2017). Local variance in the crime drop: A longitudinal study of neighbourhoods in greater Glasgow, Scotland. The British Journal of Criminology. 58(1), pp.177-199.
J. Cheng, J. Bannister (2020). Special Issue "COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities: Spatial and Digital Dimensions". J. Cheng. MDPI.
J. Bannister, I. Hardill (2014). Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences Research Impact and Engagement. Routledge.
M. Adepeju, J. Bannister, S. Langton Anchored k-medoids: A novel adaptation of k-means further refined to measure inequality in the exposure to crime across micro places. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
J. Hu, J. Cheng, J. Bannister Urban social self-organisation in COVID-19 lockdown: evidence from Wuhan City. Sustainable Cities and Society.
J. Bannister, A. O’Sullivan, E. Bates (2019). Place and time in the Criminology of Place. Theoretical Criminology. 23(3), pp.315-332.
A. Kearns, M. Livingston, G. Galster, J. Bannister (2018). The Effects of Neighbourhood Offender Concentrations on the Number, Type and Location of Crimes Committed by Resident Offenders. The British Journal of Criminology. 59(3), pp.653-673.
J. Bannister, S. He (2017). Urban Studies’ China strategy. Urban Studies. 54(8), pp.1783-1783.
J. Bannister, E. Bates, A. Kearns (2017). Local variance in the crime drop: A longitudinal study of neighbourhoods in greater Glasgow, Scotland. The British Journal of Criminology. 58(1), pp.177-199.
J. Bannister (2015). Virtual Special Issues. Urban Studies. 52(12), pp.2089-2089.
M. Livingston, A. Kearns, J. Bannister (2014). Neighbourhood Structures and Crime: The Influence of Tenure Mix and Other Structural Factors upon Local Crime Rates. Housing Studies. 29(1), pp.1-25.
J. Bannister, A. O’Sullivan (2014). Evidence and the antisocial behaviour policy cycle. Evidence & Policy. 10(1), pp.77-92.
J. Bannister, A. O'Sullivan (2013). Knowledge mobilisation and the civic academy: the nature of evidence, the roles of narrative and the potential of contribution analysis. Contemporary Social Science. 8(3), pp.249-262.
J. Bannister, I. Hardill (2013). Knowledge mobilisation and the social sciences: Dancing with new partners in an age of austerity. Contemporary Social Science. 8(3), pp.167-175.
J. Bannister, A. Kearns (2013). The Function and Foundations of Urban Tolerance: Encountering and Engaging with Difference in the City. Urban Studies. 50(13), pp.2700-2717.
J. Bannister, A. Kearns (2013). Overcoming intolerance to young people’s conduct: Implications from the unintended consequences of policy in the UK. Criminology & Criminal Justice. 13(4), pp.380-397.
J. Bannister, K. Kintrea, J. Pickering (2013). Young people and violent territorial conflict: exclusion, culture and the search for identity. Journal of Youth Studies. 16(4), pp.474-490.
JON. BANNISTER, A. O'SULLIVAN (2013). Civility, Community Cohesion and Antisocial Behaviour: Policy and Social Harmony. Journal of Social Policy. 42(1), pp.91-110.
J. Bannister, I. Hardill (2012). Special Issue of Contemporary Social Science: Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences: Dancing with new partners in an age of austerity. Contemporary Social Science. 7(2), pp.230-230.
J. Pickering, K. Kintrea, J. Bannister (2012). Invisible Walls and Visible Youth. Urban Studies. 49(5), pp.945-960.
J. Bannister, I. Hardill (2012). Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences: Dancing with new partners in an age of austerity. Contemporary Social Science. 7(1), pp.91-91.
J. Bannister, R. Croudace, J. Pickering, C. Lightowler (2011). Building safer communities: Knowledge mobilisation and community safety in Scotland. Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 13(4), pp.232-245.
K. Kintrea, J. Bannister, J. Pickering (2010). Territoriality and disadvantage among young people: an exploratory study of six British neighbourhoods. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 25(4), pp.447-465.
J. Bannister, M. Hill, S. Scott (2007). More sinned against than sinbin? The forgetfulness of critical social policy?. Critical Social Policy. 27(4), pp.557-560.
M. Hill, M. Walker, K. Moodie, B. Wallace, J. Bannister, et al. F. Khan, G. McIvor, A. Kendrick. (2007). More Haste, Less Speed? An Evaluation of Fast Track Policies to Tackle Persistent Youth Offending in Scotland. Youth Justice. 7(2), pp.121-137.
N. Fyfe, J. Bannister, A. Kearns (2006). (In)civility and the City. Urban Studies. 43(5-6), pp.853-861.
J. Bannister, N. Fyfe, A. Kearns (2006). Respectable or Respectful? (In)civility and the City. Urban Studies. 43(5-6), pp.919-937.
J. Ditton (2004). From Imitation To Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime. British Journal of Criminology. 44(4), pp.595-610.
M. Hill, J. Dillane, J. Bannister, S. Scott (2002). Everybody needs good neighbours: an evaluation of an intensive project for families facing eviction. Child & Family Social Work. 7(2), pp.79-89.
J. Bannister, N. Fyfe (2001). Introduction : Fear and the City. Urban Studies. 38(5-6), pp.807-813.
S. Farrall (2000). Social Psychology and the Fear of Crime. British Journal of Criminology. 40(3), pp.399-413.
J. Ditton, S. Farrall, J. Bannister, E. Gilchrist, K. Pease (1999). Reactions to Victimisation: Why has Anger been Ignored?. Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 1(3), pp.37-54.
J. Ditton, J. Bannister, E. Gilchrist, S. Farrall (1999). Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the ‘fear’ of Crime. International Review of Victimology. 6(2), pp.83-99.
J. Ditton, S. Farrall, J. Bannister, E. Gilchrist, J. Garwood, et al. M. Rogerson, K. Pease. (1998). Measuring fear of crime. Criminal Justice Matters. 31(1), pp.10-13.
E. GILCHRIST, J. BANNISTER, J. DITTON, S. FARRALL (1998). WOMEN AND THE 'FEAR OF CRIME': Challenging the Accepted Stereotype. British Journal of Criminology. 38(2), pp.283-298.
S. FARRALL, J. BANNISTER, J. DITTON, E. GILCHRIST (1997). QUESTIONING THE MEASUREMENT OF THE 'FEAR OF CRIME': Findings from a Major Methodological Study. British Journal of Criminology. 37(4), pp.658-679.
J. Ditton, G. Nair, J. Bannister (1996). The cost-effectiveness improved street lighting as a crime prevention measure. Lighting Journal (Rugby, England). 61(4), pp.251-256.
NR. Fyfe, J. Bannister (1996). City watching: Closed circuit television surveillance in public spaces. AREA. 28(1), pp.37-46.
D. Maclennan, J. Bannister (1995). Housing Research: Making the Connections. Urban Studies. 32(10), pp.1581-1585.
N. Fyfe, J. Bannister (2020). “City Watching: Closed Circuit Television Surveillance in Public Spaces”. In: The Urban Geography Reader. Routledge, pp.364-372.
J. Ditton, D. Chadee, S. Farrall, E. Gilchrist, J. Bannister (2019). From Imitation to Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime (2004). In: Crime and Media. Routledge, pp.442-460.
NR. Fyfe, J. Bannister (2019). Privatisation, Policing and Crime Control: Tracing the Contours of the Public-Private Divide. In: Criminal Justice in Scotland. Routledge, pp.335-354.
J. Ditton, J. Bannister, E. Gilchrist, S. Farrall (2017). Afraid or angry? Recalibrating the 'Fear' of crime. In: The Fear of Crime. pp.535-552.
J. Bannister, NR. Fyfe, A. Kearns (2016). Closed circuit television and the city. In: Surveillance, Closed Circuit Television and Social Control. pp.21-40.
J. Bannister, A. O'Sullivan (2016). Knowledge mobilisation and the civic academy: The nature of evidence, the roles of narrative and the potential of contribution analysis. In: Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences: Research Impact and Engagement. pp.83-96.
J. Bannister, I. Hardill (2016). Knowledge mobilisation and the social sciences: Dancing with new partners in an age of austerity. In: Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences: Research Impact and Engagement. pp.1-9.
K. Kintrea, J. Bannister, J. Pickering (2011). 'It's just an area -everybody represents it': Exploring young people's territorial behaviour in British cities. In: Youth in Crisis?: 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence. pp.55-71.
J. Bannister, A. Kearns (2009). Tolerance, respect and civility amid changing cities. In: Securing Respect: Behavioural Expectations and Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK. pp.171-192.
NR. Fyfe, J. Bannister (2006). 'The eyes upon the street': Closed-circuit television surveillance and the city. In: Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space. pp.254-267.
M. Adepeju, J. Bannister, S. Langton Shifting Inequality in the exposure to crime across micro places: An international comparison. 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology; Ghent Belgium; 18 -21 September 2019., 18/9/2019.
K. Lymperopoulou, K. Krzemieniewska-Nandwani, J. Bannister, S. Wallace Hidden spatial and temporal inequalities in the exposure to crime – their measurement and explanation. 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology; Ghent Belgium; 18 -21 September 2019,
K. Krzemieniewska-Nandwani, J. Bannister, M. Ellison, M. Adepeju (2022). Evaluation of the Impact of Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) on Crime and Disorder, Public Safety and Public Nuisance. , Public Health Scotland (2021).
M. Adepeju, J. Bannister, M. Ellison, S. Morris, K. Krzemieniewska-Nandwani (2022). Directed Hotspot Policing with Contextual Safeguarding – A Randomised Control Trial. , Home Office & Greater Manchester Police by the Crime and Well-Being Big Data Centre (2022).
M. Ellison, J. Bannister, B. Hall (2021). Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit: Hospital Navigators Pilot - An Initial Implementation Evaluation (First five months). , Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit.
M. Ellison, B. Hall, J. Bannister Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit : The PIED (Prosecution, Intervention, Education and Diversion) pilot programme – An Implementation Evaluation.
M. Ellison, M. Haleem, K. Krzemieniewska-Nandwani, J. Bannister Understanding ‘Missing from Homes’ demand in Greater Manchester. , Greater Manchester Police.
M. Ellison, M. Haleem, J. Bannister Understanding Mental Health Demand using a text mining approach. , Greater Manchester Police.
M. Ellison, M. Haleem, K. Krzemieniewska-Nandwani, J. Bannister The extent and nature of Knife Crime in Greater Manchester. , Greater Manchester Police.
M. Adepeju, S. Langton, J. Bannister (2019). R-Akmedoids tool for longitudinal data clustering. R Software Package Version 1.3.0. Available on CRAN.
2016 June, Invited, 'Evidence and the Policy Process', MMU.
2016 May, Invited, 'Chrsitie, Crime and Policy Making', Holyrood Communications, University of Strathclyde.
2016 April, 'Social Darwinism or the Noosphere? Housing, Urban Encounters and Diversity', Housing Studies Association, University of York.
2016 January, Invited, 'Policing in the C21st: Challenges and Opportunities', Academy for Justice Commissioning, MMU.
2015 November, Invited, 'Evaluation, Social Science and Civic Responsibility, Evaluation Nation? Exploring the locus of evaluation in UK research', MMU.
2015 September, 'The Structural Cgaractersitics of Neighbourhood Offending Profiles', European Society of Criminology, Porto.
2015 June, Invited, 'Data Sharing for the Public Good', Mason Institute, University of Edinburgh.
2015 April, Invited, 'Priniciples, Places and Partnership: Policing in the 21st Century', Police Scotland Annual Conference, Tullialan.
2015 April, Invited, The Winners and Losers of the Crime Drop, Society of Evidence Based Policing, Manchester.
2014 July, Invited, ESRC research methods festival, University of Oxford: ‘Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences’.
2014 June, Inivited, Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies, University of Sheffield: ‘Surveillance, Resilience and Democracy’.
2013 June, Invited, Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods, University of Glamorgan: ‘Knowledge mobilisation and research impact’.
2013, April, Invited, AQMeN launch, ‘The mysterious case of the disappearing crime’ with McVie, S. Edinburgh.
2013 April, Invited, Cardiff, Crime Control and Devolution: An ESRC seminar series, ‘Knowledge, story telling and democratic deliberation in Scotland’.
2012 September, Invited, National Licensing Convention, ‘Alcohol and crime’. Glasgow.
2012 May, Invited - Scottish Masculinity in Historical Perspective, The Royal Society of Edinburgh: ‘Gender and violence’.
2012 April, Invited, The Health Institute, University of Glasgow: ‘The contextual and compositional qualities of knowledge mobilisation’.
2011 October, Invited, National Council of Research Methods and The Royal Society of Social Science: ‘Knowledge mobilisation and research mediation’.
2011 October, Invited, Everyday Belongings: theorizing the self, society and change, The Universities of Manchester and East London: ‘Territoriality and identity’.
2011 September, Invited, Metropolis, University of the Azores: ‘Tolerance in the urban realm’.
2011 July, British Criminology Conference, University of Northumbria: ‘Youth gangs: perception, presentation and place’ & ‘Making sense of gendered violence’.
2011 April, Invited, Security and Public Policy in an Age of Insecurity, International Insitute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, ‘The unintended consequences of ‘intolerant’ public policy: Perceptions of youth disorder in an age of insecurity’.
2010 September, Invited, National Safety Convention – Scottish Government: ‘Youth gangs in Scotland’.
2010 July, Social Policy Association, University of Lincoln: ‘The intolerance of youth’.
2016 Principal Investigator, The Man Met Crime and Well-Being Big Data Centre, MMU Strategic Fund, £1m.
2014 Principal Investigator, Delivering Safer Communities: Building Innovative Capacity through Partnership, College of Policing, £49k.
2013 Principal Investigator, Policing Research and Training Development, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Fund, MMU, £20k
2012 Co-investigator with McVie, S., et al. Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) II, Economic and Social Research Council: £3.2m.
2011 Co-investigator with Hardill, I., et al. Dancing with New Partners: Developing Novel Research Methods to Establish and Monitor Impacts of User Engagement in Times of Austerity, Economic and Social Research Council, National Centre for Research Methods: Networks for Methodological Innovation: £24K.
2010 Principal investigator, Community Safety Knowledge Exchange Hub, Scottish Community Safety Network: £92K.
2009 Principal investigator, Building Safer Communities, Economic and Social Research Council/SFC/LARCI, Engaging with Scottish Local Authorities Scheme: £98K.
2009 Principal investigator, Modelling the Economic Impacts of Crime. Scottish Funding Council: £37K.
2009 Co-investigator with MacKenzie, S., et al. REA of the Perceptions of Anti Social Behaviour, Home Office: £33K.
2009 Co-investigator with Helms, G., et al. Civility Amongst Strangers: Social Interaction in Urban Public Spaces, Nuffield Foundation: £11K.
2008 Principal investigator, Youth Gangs and Knife Carrying in Scotland, Scottish Government: £155K.
Jon is Editor in Chief of the journal of Urban Studies, an international peer review journal. Urban Studies deals with the broad range of urban and regional problems susceptible to social science or other equally rigorous analysis.
Jon established the Urban Studies Foundation (http://www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org) as the charitable parent body of Urban Studies. The Foundation supports urban research in the UK and abroad, with an emphasis on capacity building.
Jon is a co-founder of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR, 2006 -), which was underpinned by a £2.5m Scottish Funding Council award (co-applicant), subsequently augmented by £1 million policy-research contract from Scottish Government. SCCJR has expanded research capacity; supported international and national research funding partnerships; and directly informed Scottish Government law and order policy development.
Jon has undertaken numerous knowledge exchange activities beyond the academy. His research team helped design and launch the Safer Communities Scotland website (http://www.safercommunitiesscotland.org/). The website serves to share learning and information resources relevant to community safety practitioners. He also acts as a lecturer at the Scottish Police College.
Jon has acted an academic advisor on behalf of the National Violence Reduction Unit (Scotland) and the Scottish Community Safety Network. He has provided evidence for the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee (Youth crime (2008); Knife crime (2010)). Internationally, he has provided advice for the Ministry of Justice of the Dutch Government (Antisocial Behaviour – 2011) and the Ministry of the Interior of the Qatari Government (Police Science degree – 2013)
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
Professorial Fellowship -- University of Glasgow (2013-2017)
Editor in Chief, the journal of Urban Studies