Profile
Jonathan Jackson is Professor of Research Methodology and Head of the Department of Methodology at LSE. He is an Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School and an Affiliated Scholar in the Justice Collaboratory of Yale Law School. He has held visiting appointments in criminology at Oxford, Sydney, Griffith and Cambridge, in psychology at New York University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in law at Yale, and in public policy at Harvard (Kennedy School).
Jon is an editor of the British Journal of Criminology and an academic editor of PLOSone. Working at the intersection of psychology and law, his research focuses on procedural justice (the importance of fair process in interactions between power holders and subordinates), distributive justice (the allocation of finite resources that determine who gets the benefits and burdens of social control) and legitimacy (perceptions of the right to power) in the context of the criminal justice system.
He has led several high-profile projects into public trust and institutional legitimacy in the field of criminal justice, most of which have been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Commission’s FP7 programme. He is currently working on an ESRC-funded project (with Clifford Stott at Keele and Ben Bradford at UCL) that aims to systematically test and advance theoretical understanding of some core causal claims of procedural justice theory.
