Jacqui Karn is an experienced researcher on issues around crime, policing, justice and urban inequality.
She is currently Senior European Policy Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, chiefly engaged in managing the Council’s engagement with European and other national funding bodies to facilitate international research collaboration.
She has worked in academia, non-profit and government criminal justice sectors, nationally and internationally, on policing, urban safety, mental health in the criminal justice system, and policies to reduce the use of short-term custody and remand. She is a Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology and the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton
She has contributed to international reviews of crime reduction practice (‘A question of good governance?: Developments in crime prevention internationally’ in 2011 Routledge Handbook of International Criminology eds. Smith, C., Barbaret, R. and Zhang, S.) and International Reports of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada (2010 and forthcoming).
Her book, Narratives of Neglect: community, regeneration and the governance of security (Willan, 2007), was shortlisted for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2008. (see synopsis page).
She was on the Steering Group of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research ESRC funded ‘Geographies of Missing People’ project and has acted as advisor to the Policy Studies Institute Perceptions of Police and Crime Mapping project conducted on behalf of the Home Office.
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