Senior Lecturer in Criminology 

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5701 
• Email: jgd@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 2.10 2nd floor, 154 Upper New Walk
• Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30 - 12:30 

Biography

Jon has published four books: Racism and Anti-racism in Football (with Mike Rowe); The Future of Football (with Mike Rowe and Dominic Malcolm), Rural Racism (with Neil Chakraborti), and Hate Crime: Impact, Causes, and Consequences (also with Neil Chakraborti). He has had numerous journal articles and reports published on issues of racism, community safety, hate crime, policing, cultural criminology, and identity.

Jon has previously been awarded research grants from the Home Office (to evaluate police diversity training); Leicester City Council (to conduct an audit of the local African Caribbean community); the European Union (to examine the issue of racism in football); and Greater Manchester Police. He has also undertaken a number of projects examining the issue of rural racism, funded by three rural constabularies (Suffolk, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire) and associated partners.

Research Interests

Hate crime; ethnicity, community and identity; cultural criminology; policing of minority groups; and football hooliganism.

PhD Supervision

Jon would be interested in supervising PhD study in the following areas:

• Hate crime
• Racism and ethnicity
• Football disorder and racism

Teaching

• Introduction to Criminal Justice (Undergraduate year 1 core module)
• Policing (Undergraduate year 2 core module)
• Hate Crime (Undergraduate year 3 option module)
• Racism, Crime and Disorder (Postgraduate option module)

Administrative Responsibilities

• Course Convenor for the BA in Criminology

Most Recent Publications

Garland, J. and Chakraborti, N. (2012) 'Divided By a Common Concept? Assessing the Implications of Different Conceptualisations of Hate Crime in the European Union', European Journal of Criminology, 9 (1): 38-52.

Garland, J. (2012) 'Difficulties in Defining Hate Crime Victimisation', International Review of Victimology, 18 (1): 25-37.

Full listing of publications