I am the Head of Department for Criminology, Policing and Forensic Science and am also an Associate Professor of Criminology.
I joined Staffordshire University in August 2017, having worked previously at the University of Chester where I was a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and the Criminology Programme Leader.
I have extensive experience teaching Criminology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and continue to contribute to the teaching of Criminology. I am also an external examiner for Criminology at Hertfordshire University and UWE.
I am an active researcher, researching various aspects of both Crime History and contemporary Criminology. I currently supervise several doctoral candidates.
Outside academia, I was appointed as Justice of the Peace for the North Staffordshire Local Justice Area in April 2015 and currently sit on the Magistrates’ Association Adult Court Policy Committee.
Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3419-4419
Professional memberships and activities
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of:
- The British Society of Criminology
- The British Crime Historians
- Magistrates’ Association
Academic qualifications
- 2015 Leadership & Management in Higher Education. University of Chester
- 2010 PhD Criminology. Keele University. ESRC funded
- 2008 PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Keele University
- 2005 MA Criminology and Criminological Research Methods. Keele University. ESRC funded
- 2004 BA (Dual Honours) Criminology and History. Keele University
Expertise
- Research expertise: all aspects of the Criminal Justice System; the history of crime and punishment; female offending; women’s experience of the criminal justice system
- Teaching expertise: anything criminological
Research interests
- History of crime and punishment
- Female offending
- Women’s experience of the criminal justice system
- Desistance from offending
- Police custody units
Enterprise and commercial interests
Various: please contact me
Publications
Books:
- Turner, J., Taylor, P., Corteen, K., and Morley, S. (eds.) (2017) A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Policy Press: Bristol.
- Morley, S., Corteen, K., Turner, J., and Taylor, P. (eds.) (2017) A Companion to State Power, Rights and Liberties. Policy Press: Bristol.
- Corteen, K., Morley, S., Taylor, P., and Turner, J., (eds.) (2016) A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation. Policy Press: Bristol.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
- Turner, J. (2020). ‘The ‘Vanishing’ Female Perpetrator of Common Assault’ in M. van der Heijden, M. Pluskota, S. Muurling (eds.) Women’s Criminality: Patterns and Variations in Europe, 1600-1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Turner, J. (2019) ‘A Shocking State of Domestic Unhappiness': Male Victims of Female Violence and the Courts in Late Nineteenth Century Stafford’, Societies, 9(2) 40
- Turner, J. (2018) ‘Did you know that the RSPCA was set up sixty years earlier than the NSPCC?’ in J. Treadwell and A. Lynes (eds.) 50 Facts Everyone Should Know about Crime and Punishment. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Johnston, H. and J. Turner (2017) 'Disability and the Victorian Prison: Experiencing Penal Servitude', Prison Service Journal, Issue 232: p.11-16.
- Johnston, H., Godfrey, B. S. and J. Turner (2017) ‘‘I am afraid she is perfectly responsible for her actions and is simply wicked’: Reconstructing the Criminal Career of Julia Hyland’ in D. S. Nash & A. M. Kilday (eds.) Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro Studies in the History of Crime, London: Bloomsbury, p.209-225.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘British Empire’ in J. Turner, P. Taylor, K. Corteen & S. Morley (eds.) A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies’ in J. Turner, P. Taylor, K. Corteen & S. Morley (eds.) A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘Police Court Missionaries’ in J. Turner, P. Taylor, K. Corteen & S. Morley (eds.) A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘Benefit of Clergy’ in J. Turner, P. Taylor, K. Corteen & S. Morley (eds.) A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘Child Soldiers’ in S. Morley, K. Corteen, J. Turner, P. Taylor (eds.) A Companion to State Power, Rights and Liberties, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘Genocide ‘in S. Morley, K. Corteen, J. Turner, P. Taylor (eds.) A Companion to State Power, Rights and Liberties, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2017). ‘Arms Trade’ in S. Morley, K. Corteen, J. Turner, P. Taylor (eds.) A Companion to State Power, Rights and Liberties, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2016). ’ Death Penalty, Harm and Victimisation’ in K. Corteen, S. Morley, P. Taylor & J. Turner (eds.) A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2016). ’ Genocide, Harm and Victimisation’ in K. Corteen, S. Morley, P. Taylor, & J. Turner (eds.) A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J., (2016). ’ Victims: an Historical Perspective’ in K. Corteen, S. Morley, P. Taylor & J. Turner (eds.) A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J. and H. Johnston, (2016) 'Female prisoners, aftercare and release: Residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England', British Journal of Community Justice, 13 (3), p35-50.
- Turner, J. (2015). ‘Louise A. Jackson, with Angela Bartie, Policing youth: Britain, 1945-70’, Social History, 4(4), pp. 562-564.
- Cox, D., Godfrey, B., Johnston, H. & Turner, J. (2014). 'On Licence: Understanding punishment, recidivism and desistance in penal policy, 1853-1945' in V. Miller & J. Campbell (eds.) Transnational Penal Cultures: New Perspectives on Discipline, Punishment and Desistance. Routledge.
- Turner, J. (2014) 'Bethlem Hospital' in P. Taylor, K. Corteen & S. Morley (eds.) A Dictionary of Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Risk, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Turner, J. (2014) 'Our Criminal Past: Representing Penal Histories: Displaying and Narrating the Criminal Past'. Law, Crime and History, 4(1), p. 117-127.
- Turner, J. (2013) 'Our Criminal Past: Digitisation, Social Media and Crime History', Law, Crime & History, 3(2), pp. 195-198.
- Turner, J. (2013) ‘Our Criminal Past: Educating Historians of Crime: Classroom, Archive, and Community', Law, Crime & History, 3(2), p. 199-204.
- Johnston, H., Godfrey, B. S., Cox, D. and J. Turner (2013) 'Reconstructing Prison Lives: Criminal Lives in the Digital Age', Prison Service Journal, Special Issue on ‘The Prison and the Public’, 210, pp. 4-9.
- Turner, J. (2012) ‘Ordinary Female Offenders: Stafford Borough, 1880-1905’. Crime, Histoire & Sociétiés / Crime, History & Societies. 16(2), pp. 55-78.
- Turner, J. (2011) ‘Punishing Women, 1880-1905’. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. Special Edition: Historical Perspectives. 50(5), pp. 505-515.
- Wells, H.M., Cropper, S., Turner, J. (2011). Total Place and Alcohol Harm Reduction: Report on Service Recommendations for the Newcastle-under-Lyme Community Safety Partnership.
- Turner, J. (2008) ‘Simpson, A. E., The Maiden Tribute of Babylon: The Report of the Secret Commission. Originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette’, The Sociological Review, 56(3), pp. 513-515.