Dr Deborah Jump
Reader in Criminology
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
- PhD in Criminology from University of Manchester
- Fellowship of Higher Education Authority (FHEA)
- Masters in Criminology from University of Manchester
- Bachelors in Sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University
Other academic service (administration and management)
Associate Director for the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS)
Expert reviewer for external funding bodiesCommunity, charity and NGO links
Chair of board of trustees for Collyhurst and Moston Boxing Gym
Government and industry links
- 2020 Shortlisted for British Society of Criminology Book Prize
- 2018 Shortlisted for Man Met Early Career Researcher of the Year
- 2017 Vice Chancellor’s PhD scholarship scheme
- 2016 MMU’s Research Accelerator Grant (to develop an international policy transfer with Comeback Industries in Copenhagen
- 2010 Graduate Teaching Associate PhD scholarship University of Manchester
- 2006 Winston Churchill Fellowship Award
Editorial Board membership
Editorial Board member for Journal of Contemporary Harm, Crime and Ethics
Membership of professional associations
- Member of International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy
- Member of British Psychoanalytical Council Scholars Network
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (awarded 2015)
- Member of the British Society of Criminology
Interests and expertise
Interests include: Trauma and its relationship to violence, boxing, masculinity and violence, youth justice, forensic psychoanalysis, ethnnographic and narrative methods,
Impact
Jump, D; Smithson, H; Nisbet; A. (2022) The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Impact in a Secure Children’s Home
Smithson, H., & Jump, D. Nisbet; A. (2022) The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Impact on Youth Custody
Gray, P., Smithson, H., & Jump, D. (2021) Serious Youth Violence and its Relationship with Adverse Childhood Experiences Youth Justice Board Report 17th May 2021
Jump, D and Hills, S (2020) All Party Parliamentary Group Report: Boxing and its Societal Effects. A Literature Review. 16th Dec 2020
Jump, D (2020) The Criminology of Boxing Desistance & Violence. Policy Press. Bristol
Jump, D; Smithson, H; (2020) Dropping your Guard: The effectiveness of Youth Participatory Action Research in a young person’s boxing and desistance workshop. International Journal of Sport and Society
Jump, D (2020) “Look who is laughing now”: Physical capital, boxing and the prevention of repeat victimisation in Youth Violence Framed: Disrupting Discourses Special Edition. Onati-Social Legal Series. Vol XX
McMahon, G and Jump, D (2017) Starting to Stop? Desistance: An exploration of young offender’s narratives, Youth Justice, SAGE Publications
Jump, D (2017) Why we should think some more. A response to ‘when you’re boxing you don’t think so much: Pugilism, transitional masculinities and criminal desistance among young Danish gang members. Journal of Youth Studies Vol 20
Jump, D (2016) ‘They didn’t know whether to fuck me or fight me’, in Mischief, Morality and Mobs, Essays in Memory of Geoff Pearson by Dick Hobbs (Ed). London: Routledge
Jump, D (2015) Fighting for Change: Narrative accounts on the appeal and desistance potential of boxing. Howard League ECAN Bulletin May edition 2015
Projects
2020 £363,131,00 (CI) UKRI: The Youth Justice System’s Response to the Covid 19 Crisis: Implications and Impact.
2020 £40,000 (PI) Comic Relief Getting out for Good Covid Recovery Fund. The impact of digital packages on sexual exploitation and adolescent mental health
2020 £3,500 (PI) England Boxing: Evaluation of MST programme on knife crime in the North West.
2020 £7658 (PI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) A transnational policy transfer for girls affected by gangs in Bogota, Colombia
2019 £100,000 (CI) Research using an experience -based co-design approach to develop effective practice to address serious youth violence
2019 £93,690,00 (CI) Youth Endowment Fund: Creating Futures through Boxing Feasibility Evaluation
2019 £106,068,00 (CI) Youth Endowment Fund: Inspiring Futures Rugby Feasibility Evaluation
2018 £127,182,00 (CI) Young Manchester Evaluation of #IWILL Fund.
2018 £100,000 (CI) Sport Relief Kicking Crime into Touch: Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, with MMU Sport, and Greater Manchester Youth Justice Services.
2017 £45,000 (DoS) PVC PhD Scholarship Scheme: Championing Change: Promoting Desistance through Sport- Full time bursary awarded to a student in my chosen research area
2017 £450,000 (PI) Comic Relief: Getting out for Good: working with young women at risk of serious violence and sexual exploitation across Greater Manchester.
2016 £7,000 Research Accelerator Grant (PI). Prestigious award to develop early career academics’ research areas at Manchester Metropolitan University. This grant developed the international element of my work into sport, crime, and serious youth violence.
2010 £45,000 GTA Scholarship fully funded PhD, University of Manchester
2006 £8,000 Winston Churchill Memorial Fund Scholarship: How effective is sport on youth crime in the USA
Teaching
Subject areas
Criminology
Supervision
- Principal Supervisor- Trying for Change: An exploration of Rugby Union as a means to examine marginality, masculinity and positive youth development (PYD) amongst young people in the youth justice system (Awarded Vice Chancellor PhD scholarship scheme)
- Principal Supervisor- How do children’s interactions with appropriate adults, legal representatives and advocates at police interview impact their outcome and shape their trajectory in the Youth Justice System
- Second Supervisor- The Impossibility of Being a Girl – a verse novel (English & Creative Writing)
Research outputs
I am Associate Director of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies and I have over 15 years’ experience of working in youth justice as both a practitioner and service manager. I have implemented sporting programmes such as Positive Futures, and I was the recipient of a Winston Churchill Memorial Fund scholarship evaluating the impact of sporting programmes on communities in the USA. My current research focuses on youth justice and sport criminology, and I have a particular interest in the impact of boxing on serious youth violence and sexual exploitation. I have published on qualitative research methods and national sporting policy evaluation, and I am the grant holder and Principal Investigator for the Comic Relief funded project - Getting out for Good: Preventing Gangs Through Participation. I am also the Co-investigator on various grants housed within the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, mainly those focused on serious youth violence, trauma and youth justice.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Gray, P., Jump, D., Smithson, H. (2023) Adverse Childhood Experiences and Serious Youth Violence. Bristol University Press.
Jump, D. (2020) The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance. Bristol University Press.
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Chapters in books
Jump, D., Blakemore, A. (2022) 'Cure de Jour: exploring the potential of boxing as a mechanism for change among vulnerable groups.' In Morgan, H., Parker, A. (ed.) Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice: politics, policy and practice. London: Routledge, pp. 166-180.
Jump, D., Crowther, J., Smithson, H. (2022) 'Kicking crime into ouch: Rugby Union as a context for positive youth development with young people involved in the youth justice system.' In Silva, D., Kennedy, L. (ed.) Power Played: a critical criminology of sport. UBC Press, pp. 346-365.
Jump, D.L. (2016) 'They didn’t know whether to “fuck me or fight me”: An ethnographic account of North Town boxing gym.' In Hobbs, D. (ed.) Mischief, Morality and Mobs: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson. Routledge,
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Reports
Jump, D., Smithson, H., Nisbet, A. (2022) The Youth Justice System's Response to the Covid 19 Pandemic: the impact in a secure children's home. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
Gray, P., Smithson, H., Nisbet, A., Larner, S., Jump, D. (2022) The Youth Justice System's response to the Covid-19 pandemic - YOTs' adaptations and challenges to service delivery : a national picture. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
Nunn, C., Whittington, E., Newby, L., Gray, P., Smithson, H., Couldwell, C., Jump, D. (2022) Evaluation of Young Manchester Youth and Play Fund. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
Smithson, H., Nisbet, A., Larner, S., Gray, P., Jump, D. (2022) The Youth Justice System's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic - Partnership Working. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS).
Smithson, H., Nisbet, A., Larner, S., Gray, P., Jump, D. (2022) The Youth Justice System's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic - Children's Welfare Needs and Vulnerabilities. Manchester Centre fro Youth Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Wong, K., Gray, P., Roberts, A., Jump, D. (2021) Youth Endowment Fund Empire Fighting Chance, Feasibility Study Findings. Policy Evaluation and Research Unit Manchester Metropolitan University.
Gray, P., Smithson, H., Jump, D. (2021) Serious youth violence and its relationship with adverse childhood experiences. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation.
Jump, D., Horan, R. (2021) Getting out for Good : Preventing Gangs through Participation HM Inspectorate of Probation Academic Insights 2021/12. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.
Smithson, H., Gray, P., Jump, D., Larner, S., Nisbet, A. (2021) The Youth Justice System's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: research paper. Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.
Gray, P., Smithson, H., Jump, D. (2021) Serious youth violence and its relationship with adverse childhood experiences. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Horan, R., Jump, D., O'Shea, S. (2020) Phase One Process Evaluation Report The Getting Out for Good (GOFG) Project. Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Internet publications
Jump, D.L. (2016) Charly Says..Don't Believe the Hype. http://www.mcys-mmu.org.uk/.
Jump, D.L. (2016) Street corners and boxing rings. https://www.mmu.ac.uk/mcys/.
Jump, D.L. (2015) Expert comment: Fighting for Change? Reconsidering anti-crime boxing schemes..
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Journal articles
Smithson, H., Jump, D. (2024) 'Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change.' The British Journal of Criminology,
Smithson, H., Jump, D. (2024) 'Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change.' The British Journal of Criminology: an international review of crime and society,
Jump, D., Horan, R. (2024) 'Girls and Gangs: A Decade on From the Firmin Report and What Has Changed?.' Violence Against Women,
Jump, D. (2021) '“Look who is laughing now”: physical capital, boxing, and the prevention of repeat victimisation.' Onati Socio-Legal Series, 11(5) pp. 1095-1113.
Jump, D., Smithson, H. (2020) 'Dropping your Guard: The Use of Boxing as a Means of Forming Desistance Narratives Amongst Young People in the Criminal Justice System.' The International Journal of Sport and Society, 11(2) pp. 56-69.
McMahon, G., Jump, D. (2017) 'Starting to Stop: Young Offenders' desistance from Crime.' Youth Justice, 18(1) pp. 3-17.
Jump, D.L. (2017) 'Why we should think some more. A response to ‘When you’re boxing you don’t think so much’: pugilism, transitional masculinities and criminal desistance among young Danish gang members.' Journal of Youth Studies, 20(8) pp. 1093-1107.
Jump, D.L. (2015) 'Fighting for change: narrative accounts on the appeal and desistance potential of boxing.' Early Career Academics Network (ECAN) Bulletin, (26) pp. 10-15.
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Non-peer reviewed articles / reviews
Jump, D. (2020) Book Review: Criminological Ethnography.
Jump, D., Smithson, H. (2019) Boxing: can the sport really help turn young men away from violent crime.
Jump, D. (2019) Book Review: Sports Criminology: A critical criminology of sports and games.
Press and media
Media appearances or involvement
I have featured on BBC News at Ten for the Getting out for Good Project , as well as BBC Sport Relief and BBC Comic Relief as part of their project fundraising campaigns. I have also appeared on BBC Radio 5 live for the Kicking Crime into Touch project in as well as BBC Radio Manchester for the second phase of the Getting out for Good Project in. I have appeared on BBC Radio 4 with Nikesh Shukla for the One-to-One series, discussing my research into boxing and my current book: The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance. I have also provided expert opinion to The Manchester Evening News and Good Morning Britain.