Mr Jon Garland

Biography

I joined the Department of Sociology in January 2013 and prior to that I worked and studied at the University of Leicester.

Research Interests

My main areas of research are in the fields of hate crime, rural racism, community and identity, policing and victimisation. Currently I’m working on the Leicester Hate Crime Project  the largest study of hate crime victimisation ever undertaken. The two-year project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is examining the experiences of those who are victimised because of their identity, vulnerability or perceived 'difference' in the eyes of the perpetrator. It will be investigating not just the experiences of the more ‘recognised’ hate crime victim communities, including those who experience racist, religiously motivated, homophobic, disablist and transphobic victimisation, but also anyone who feels they have been targeted because of who they are. The research will be undertaken via an extensive online and written survey of the wide range of victim communities mentioned above, and this will be complemented by hundreds of in-depth interviews with victims. The findings will be summarised in a series of reports and academic journal articles as the project progresses. The research will therefore be of benefit to potential and actual victims of hate crime, community groups, networks and associations, the police, local authorities, Victim Support, the Ministry of Justice and Home Office, and charities and third sector organisations.

Prior to the Leicester Hate Crime Project I have been awarded research grants from the Home Office (to evaluate police diversity training); Leicester City Council (to conduct an audit of the local African Caribbean community); the European Union (to examine the issue of racism in football); and Greater Manchester Police (to evaluate police diversity training). I have also undertaken a number of projects examining the issue of rural racism, funded by three rural constabularies (Suffolk, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire) and associated partners. I have published four books: Racism and Anti-racism in Football (with Mike Rowe); The Future of Football (with Mike Rowe and Dominic Malcolm), Rural Racism (with Neil Chakraborti), and Hate Crime: Impact, Causes, and Consequences (also with Neil Chakraborti). I have also had numerous journal articles and reports published on issues of racism, community safety, hate crime, policing, cultural criminology, and identity.

Publications

Teaching

Current Teaching

• Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems (level one undergraduate)
• Crime, Power and Justice (level two undergraduate)
• The Criminal Justice System (postgraduate)
• Dissertation supervision (undergraduate and postgraduate)

Selected Previous Teaching

• Racism, Crime and Disorder (postgraduate)
• Hate Crime (third year undergraduate)
• Policing (second year undergraduate)
• Introduction to Criminal Justice (first year undergraduate)

Departmental Duties

Selected Previous Duties
Programme Director, BA Criminology; MSc Community Safety; MSc Police Leadership; MSc Criminal Justice Studies (University of Leicester)
Chair of Department Learning and Teaching Committee (Department of Criminology, University of Leicester)

I’m currently on the Board of Directors, of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and on the Steering Committee of a new national Hate Crime Network. I’m also involved in the work of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change. As part of this work I co-edited a special issue of Contemporary British History entitled ‘Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of ‘Consensus’ in Post-War Britain’, 26 (3): 2012.
I’m a member of the British Society of Criminology and the Howard League for Penal Reform and am on the Editorial Advisory Board of Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal. I’ve been the external examiner for two doctoral theses: one on hate crime, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, December 2008, and the other on racism in Sport (University of Loughborough, June 2010). I have previously supervised two research students through to completion (both studying rural racism).
Previously I was External examiner for the Applied Criminology suite of undergraduate degrees at De Montfort University and for the BSc Criminology and Sociology at the University of Surrey. I was on the organising committee of the ‘Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change’ conference, held in September 2011 at London Metropolitan University, and had a similar role for the ‘Human Rights Human Wrongs’ British Society of Criminology annual conference, held in July 2010 at the University of Leicester.