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Prof Shane Johnson
Professor of Future Crimes
Dept of Security and Crime Science
Faculty of Engineering Science
- Joined UCL
- 1st Feb 2004
Research summary
Professor Johnson is the Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL and co-director of the EPSRC Center for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity. As Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime, he is particularly interested in how technological change informs new opportunities for offending or approaches to crime. His research on future crime, secure by design, what works to reduce crime and crime patterns has been funded by a variety of sponsors including the AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, Home Office, UK police forces, the Department for the Environment & Rural Affairs (Defra), Department for Education & Skills (DfES), British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust.
He has published over 150 book chapters and papers within the fields of criminology and cybersecurity in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Futures, Journal of Cybersecurity, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Criminology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, the British Journal of Criminology, and Law and Human Behavior. His work has been covered in the press including the Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/2647118), New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg19826541.000-sin-cities-the-geometry-of-crime.html
http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg18224473.300-mapping-the-path-of-crime-epidemics.html), and the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/may/06/science.highereducation), and featured in a BBC iWonder website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zqsg9qt).
He has guest edited special issues of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, has edited books on crime prevention and has co-authored three Problem Oriented Policing guides published by the US Department of Justice. He is a member of the Science Advisory boards of the UK Home Office and the Max Planck Institute, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Teaching summary
Professor Johnson currently has taught on several modules including:
- Horizon and the Changing Nature of Crime
- Quantitative Research methods
- Crime mapping and analysis
- Investigation and Detection
Education
- University of Liverpool
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2001
- University of Liverpool
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 1994
- University of Liverpool
- First Degree, Bachelor of Science (Honours) | 1992
Biography
Professor Johnson is the Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL and co-director of the EPSRC Center for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity. He was previously a lecturer in Forensic Psychology and before that a senior research fellow at the University of Liverpool.