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Institute of Criminal Justice ResearchMembers

Dr Jacqui Karn

Senior Research and Development Officer at the Police Foundation; Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology 

Email: Jacqui.Karn@police-foundation.org.uk

Biography

Research Associate and Research Fellow, Police Foundation

Jacqui Karn is Research Fellow at the Police Foundation, an independent charity working to improve policing policy and practice (and related issues) through research, policy development and training/consultancy. She is principally engaged in the development of a large scale project to explore innovation in policing practice over the next four years. Prior to that appointment Jacqui has worked in academia (London School of Economics ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow), non-profit and government criminal justice sectors, nationally and internationally (Nacro, UK; Ministry of Justice, UK; The International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada), on urban safety and policing, mental health in the criminal justice system, and policies to reduce the use of short term custody and remand. Further details can be found on her website: http://jacquikarn.wordpress.com/. She has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MA in ?Crime, Law and Society? from Manchester University and a PhD in Criminology from Keele University. Her book based on that PhD research, Narratives of Neglect: community, regeneration and the governance of security (Willan, 2007), was shortlisted for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2008 She intends to work closely with Professor Ian Loader in the development of a four-year action research project on innovative approaches to democratic policing practice, currently being established at the Police Foundation. Together they intend this to result in joint research on the project (or collaborative work on parallel research projects complementing Oxford University/ Police Foundation work) as well as papers published by the Police Foundation and academic articles to be published in international peer reviewed journals. She will also be a key contact in linking the Centre into an international network of policy and academic opinion formers engaged in this area that the Police Foundation will establish during the course of the project.

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Jacqui has worked in academia(London School of Economics ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow), non-profit and government criminal justice sectors, nationally and internationally (Nacro, UK; Ministry of Justice, UK; The International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Canada), on urban safety and policing, mental health in the criminal justice system, and policies to reduce the use of short term custody and remand.

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