Clarke Jones

I am a Visiting Fellow, criminologist, based at ANU's Department of Political and Social Change. Aside from academia, I run a company called the Reshape Justice Group (RJG). The RJG is a pioneering consulting company, specialising in the intricate field of correctional reform in the Philippines. Our mission is to help strengthen the Philippines’ correctional system, foster rehabilitation, develop systems of case management and through-care, and ensure the safe reintegration of violent extremist offenders back into society. To support reintegration, community partnerships are essential to the success of the longer-term goals of community safety and harmony. I work together with a range of international and domestic experts including psychologists, criminologists and sociologists to provide support to community groups working with released offenders.

My research at the ANU focusses on several areas including prison reform, radicalisation, rehabilitation, organised crime and gangs/prison gangs in the Philippines. I am currently exploring how different prison environments influence terrorist inmates' beliefs and behaviour: that is, whether certain prison environments inhibit or foster prison radicalisation. I compare the beliefs and behaviours of two groups of terrorist inmates incarcerated in two different correctional facilities in the Philippines. I also examine prison reform in the Philippines corrective system and the effects of prison gangs, overcrowding and corruption on this reformation process. In doing so, I examine inmate self-governance and the functional importance of prison gangs for prison order and management in highly overcrowded correctional facilities.

In 2015 I won the top ANU media award - the Vice Chancellor's Award for Advancing the Reputation of the University Through Media. I also won the 24/7 Award for the Most Impressive Media Performance. In 2014 I received the ANU Strategic Communications & Public Affairs Award as an Emerging Talent.