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Robert Jones

Dr Robert Jones

Senior Lecturer

School of Law and Politics

Email
JonesRD7@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74133
Campuses
8-10 North Road, Room 0.02, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3DY
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Rob joined Cardiff School of Law and Politics in January 2022 as a Lecturer in the Welsh Criminal Justice System. His main areas of interest are imprisonment, penal policy, devolution, and criminal justice in Wales. He is a member of the Wales Governance Centre and the Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice. Rob is also a Coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control's Prisons, Punishment and Detention Working Group.

In 2018, Rob was seconded to the Wales Governance Centre’s Justice and Jurisdiction project which was set up to inform the ongoing work of the Commission on Justice in Wales. He was cited as an Expert Contributor within the Commission’s final report published in October 2019.

Rob currently teaches on Miscarriages of Justice: The Cardiff Innocence Project and Crime, Law and Society. He is is the Chair of the School of Law and Politics Research Ethics Committee.

Publication

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Adrannau llyfrau

Erthyglau

Gosodiad

Llyfrau

Monograffau

Research

Rob was awarded a PhD in Law at Cardiff University in 2017. His thesis, The Hybrid System: Imprisonment and Devolution in Wales, charted the emergence of Wales as a distinct criminological space within the once ‘uniform’ England and Wales system. Having mapped out the territorially distinct arrangements that characterise the operation of the prison system in post-devolution Wales, Rob's research highlighted the complications and practical difficulties that arise because of the ‘jagged edge’ between non-devolved justice functions and other (devolved) areas of social policy.

Since completing his PhD in 2017, Rob has published numerous outputs including academic publications as well as a series of research reports aimed at developing a more detailed, critical, and authoritative understanding of the Welsh criminal justice system. In 2022, The Welsh Criminal Justice System: On the Jagged Edge was published by University of Wales Press. The book was co-authored alongside Professor Richard Wyn Jones and provides the first academic account of the Welsh Criminal Justice System.

 

Teaching

Rob currently teaches on Miscarriages of Justice: The Cardiff Innocence Project and Crime, Law and Society.

Biography

Rob was awarded a PhD from Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics in 2017. His research focused on imprisonment and devolution in Wales. Prior to studying at Cardiff, Rob completed a MRes Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University and Manchester and BA Criminology and Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University.

Ph.D.          Law (Cardiff University, 2017).

                   Thesis: The Hybrid System: Imprisonment and Devolution in Wales

                   Supervisors: Professor Richard Wyn Jones and Dr Kirsty Hudson

MRes         Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies (University of Manchester, 2010).

BA Hons.   Criminology and Sociology (Liverpool John Moores University, 2009). First Class Honours

PgCDPPHE Postgraduate Certificate in Developing Professional Practice in Higher Education (University of South Wales,

                     2017)

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:

  • Prisons
  • Penal Policy
  • Devolution
  • The Welsh Criminal Justice System
Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release more than trebles in one year

Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release more than trebles in one year

15 November 2023

Prisoner rights: Time for a rethink?

Prisoner rights: Time for a rethink?

03 August 2023

WGC Research Conference proves a hit with academics

WGC Research Conference proves a hit with academics

02 July 2023

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