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Research interests
Dr Jon Robins' research interests span criminal justice, social justice and journalism.
He has a long term commitment to miscarriages of justice, prisoners' rights, social justice and access to justice and legal aid.
Jon came to academia in 2021 after a 25-year career in journalism reporting on justice issues.
Over the years, he has written regularly for the Guardian, Observer (www.theguardian.com/profile/jonrobins), Independent on Sunday (www.independent.co.uk/author/jon-robins) as well as the Times, magazines and specialist journals.
He is twice winner of the Bar Council's journalist of the year and winner of the inaugural Halsbury Law award for journalism.
Jon is the editor of the Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) - an online magazine about 'the law and justice - and the difference between the two'. The Justice Gap has a print magazine, Proof.
BOOKS
Dr Robins is the author of a number of books including:
- Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021 - with Dr Dan Newman) which featured more than 200 original interviews conducted in food banks, homeless shelters, destitution services for asylum seekers, law centres and citizens advice bureaux, courts waiting rooms. Interview on Transforming Society podcast here and read about the project in the Guardian here.
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the crisis in our justice system (Biteback Press, 2018): This book examines the inability of our justice system to get to grips with miscarriages of justice by looking at cases of serious injustice over the last 20 years (interview on BBC South News here).
- The First Miscarriage of Justice (Waterside Press, 2014): an account of one man’s 43 year campaign to overturn his conviction. The Tony Stock case has been described as “one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice in modern times“ - as mentioned in the House of Commons.
- The Justice Gap: Whatever happened to legal aid? (Legal Action Group, 2008 with Steve Hynes)
OTHER INTERESTS
Dr Robins is special adviser to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice and a trustee of the access to justice charity the Legal Action Group.
He is a patron of Hackney Community Law Centre; and on the advisory board of the legal charity APPEAL which investigates miscarrages of justice.
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At war with the court’s ‘sublime complacency’: Bob Woffnden remembered
Robins, J., 23 Mar 2021, Leading Works in Law and Social Justice. Gordon, F. & Newman, D. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 207-225 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter
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Justice in a time of austerity: Stories from a system in crisis
Robins, J. & Newman, D., 22 Jun 2021, Bristol University Press. 224 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Crisis in our Justice System
Robins, J., 8 May 2018, Hull. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored
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The First Miscarriage of Justice: The 'unreported and amazing' case of Tony Stock
Robins, J., 24 Sep 2014, Hook. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored
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The groundbreaking Court: Jon Robins gives a glowing report for The Family and Drug Court
Robins, J., 1 Oct 2011, In: Socialist Lawyer. 59, p. 26-27 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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