Newcastle University

Introduction

Jenny studied for a Law Degree (University of Newcastle), MA in Criminal Justice Studies (University of Leeds) and Diploma in Legal Practice (Leeds Metropolitan University). Work in practice includes family law and child law and as a volunteer case-worker at a Law Centre in the areas of family, housing, employment, immigration and welfare law. Jenny came to Newcastle, as a Lecturer in October 2007, having previously worked in the School of Law, University of Glasgow from October 2005 and University of Sheffield, Law School, from October 1998. Jenny has worked on numerous research funded projects including the Home Office Evaluation of Restorative Justice Schemes and Home Office Evaluation of Statutory Time Limit Pilots in the Youth Court, DCA funded project looking at the Non Legally Qualified Advisors and their Clients - Perceptions of Quality (PI) as well as various Scottish Government funded research projects. These projects have involved both quantitative and qualitative methods of research and some a mixed methods approach.  Jenny is also a Chair Panel Member for the Childrens Hearings System in Scotland.

Roles and Responsibilities

Staff/Student Committee; PARTNERS Co-ordinator; Research Ethics Committee; Research Committee; Co co-ordinator (with Professor Kathryn Hollingsworth) Newcastle Law School Street Law Project 

Previous Positions

Researcher, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, Leeds University (1994-1998)
Researcher, Law School, Sheffield University (1998-2005)
Lecturer, Law School, University of Glasgow (2005-2007) 

Memberships

Honorary Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
European Society of Criminology
Socio-Legal Studies Association
Register of Exercise Professionals

Research Interests

Restorative Justice; Youth Justice; Victims of Crime - Child Victims of Crime and Child Protection/Law,
Violence against women; gender violence; Multi agency responses within Criminal and Youth Justice 

Other Expertise

Civil Justice; Legal Profession, Governance and Regulation; Public Funding 

Current Work

Potential for Restorative Justice for Survivors of Historical Abuse (with Sacro). Funded by the Scottish Government.

Restorative Practices for Serious Crimes (with Yulia Chistyakova)

Restorative Survey for Criminal Justice Professionals (Scotland). Along with members of the SCCJR and Viewpoint we have developed an on-line survey of attitudes of criminal justice professionals in Scotland towards the use of restorative justice.

Policy Responses to Gender Based Violence in Scotland - Michele Burman and Jenny Johnstone along with Janette de Haan and Jan Macleod of the Women's Support project received a grant from the Equality and Human Rights Commission for a project entitled: Responding to gender Based Violence in Scotland: the Scope of the Gender Equality Duty to Drive Cultural and Practical Change.

Member of the Steering Group on the Young Victims of Crime Project, Scoping a National Service Model for Young Victims of Crime in Scotland - a project led by Victim Support Scotland and the Scottish Government.   

Therapeutic Support for Victims and Witnesses in Criminal Proceedings (with Shamini Ragavan)

Analysis of Young People's attitudes towards the Referral Order Panels. (with Viewpoint)

CONSENSUS PROJECT: proyectoconsensus.blogspot.com
Good Practices of Restorative Juvenile Justice (FP7 Project). Participants included: Institute of Conflict Resolution (ICR). Sofia. Bulgaria; European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations; (HEUNI). Helsinki. Finlandia; Research Institute on Judicial Systems. Bologna. National Research Council (IRSIG-CNR), Italia; Directorate - General for Social Rehabilitation. Ministry of Justice. Lisboa. Portugal; Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR). University of Glasgow. Reino Unido.

Funding

I have worked on a number of projects receiving grants as PI and as part of a collaborative group from various funders including the Home Office, Department of Constitutional Affairs, Scottish Government, ECHR and EOC amongst others.  Collaborative work with Sacro considering the Potential for Restorative Justice: Survivors of Historical Institutional Abuse. I was PI for research considering clients perceptions of and quality of the legal advice provided by non-legally qualified advisors. (Non- Legally Qualified Advisors and Their Clients (2005) funded by the then DCA).Therapeutic Support for Adult Witnesses in Criminal and Civil Proceedings (with Profs. Michele Burman, Amina Memon (Scottish Government)). Policy Responses to Gender Violence in Scotland (with Michele Burman and Scottish Women's Aid, funded by EHRC). Guidance on the Gender Equality Duty for Criminal Justice Agencies (Burman, M; Johnstone, J and Leacock, V, funding from EOC)

Research Roles

Senior Associate of the European Postgraduate and Early Stage Researchers Working Group: Criminology, Criminal Justice and Criminal Law

Postgraduate Supervision 

If you would like information on reading for a research degree at Newcastle Law School please see www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/postgraduate/research/index.htm

Undergraduate Teaching

Criminal Justice and Criminology
International Criminal Law 

Postgraduate Teaching

Research Methods

• Johnstone J, Leacock V. Achieving and Managing Equality in the Criminal Justice Process: Do the New Equality Measures Go Far Enough?. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 2010, 49(1), 54-72.
• Burman M, Johnstone J, Fraser A, McNeill F. Scotland. In: Dunkel, F; Grzywal, J; Horsfield, P; Pruin, I, ed. Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: Current Situation and Reform Developments. Mönchengladbach, Germany: Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH, 2010, pp. 1149-1194.
• Johnstone J, Burman M, ed. Youth Justice. Edinburgh: Dunedin Press, 2010.
• Burman M, Johnstone J, deHaan J, MacLeod J. Responding to Gender Based Violence: the Scope of the Gender Equality Duty to Drive Cultural and Practical Change. Edinburgh: ECHR, 2009.
• Johnstone J, Leacock V. Managing Equality in the Criminal Justice Process: preparing for the forthcoming Gender Equality Duty (April 2007). Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice 2007, 13, 43-57.
• Jackson J, Johnstone J. The reasonable time requirement: an independent and meaningful right?. Criminal Law Review 2005, 3-23.
• Johnstone J, Marson J. Advice Agencies, Advisors and their Clients: Perceptions of Quality. London: DCA, 2005. ISBN: 184099066X.
• Jackson J, Johnstone J, Shapland J. Delay, human rights and the need for statutory time limits in youth cases. Criminal Law Review 2003, 510-524.
• Johnstone J. Potential for and Development of an RJ Toolkit for survivors of historical abuse (with Sacro and Derek Brookes). 2011.
• Shapland J, Atkinson A, Atkinson H, Dignan J, Edwards L, Hibbert J, Howes M, Johnstone J, Robinson G, Sorsby A. Does restorative justice affect reconviction? The fourth report from the evaluation of three schemes. Home Office Online Report. (reconviction, costs of schemes, value for money). London: Ministry of Justice Research Series, 10/08, 2008. Research Series, 10/08.
• Shapland J, Atkinson A, Atkinson H, Colledge E, Dignan J, Howes M, Johnstone J, Robinson G, Sorsby A. Restorative justice: the views of victims and offenders. The third report from the evaluation of three schemes. London: Home Office, 2007. Research Series 3/07.
• Shapland J, Atkinson A, Atkinson H, Chapman B, Colledge E, Dignan J, Howes M, Johnstone J, Robinson G, Sorsby A. Restorative justice in practice: the second report from the evaluation of three schemes. 2006. Occasional Paper 2.
• Matrix C, Moorhead R, Shapland J, Johnstone J, McGourlay C. Independent Review of the Community Legal Service, London: DCA at. London: DCA, 2004.
• Shapland J, Hibbert J, Howes M, Jackson J, Johnstone J, Sorsby A, Stubbing T. Evaluation of Statutory Time Limit Pilot Schemes in the Youth Court – Final Report. Home Office, 2003. OLR 21/03.
• Shapland J, Howes M, Jackson J, Johnstone J, Sorsby A, Stubbing T. Evaluation of Statutory Time Limit Pilot Schemes in the Youth Court: Interim Report. London: Home Office, 2001.