Shane Johnson

Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL

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 prevention. 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, 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, and Criminology. 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