Professor James Banks PhD, PGCHE, MA, BA
Professor of Criminology
- Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
- Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice
- Social and Economic Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Summary
My research is focused on gambling-related crime and technology, although I continue to publish in other areas. To date, I have authored two research monographs – Online Gambling and Crime: Causes, Controls and Controversies and Gambling, Crime and Society – whilst my research has been published in high-ranking journals such as International Gambling Studies, the European Journal of Criminology, the International Journal of Comparative Criminology and Offender Therapy, Crime, Media, Culture, and Critical Criminology. I maintain a record of planning, securing, leading and successfully delivering funded research projects from charities and grant making organisations that inform policy and practice.
About
I joined Ï㽶ÊÓƵ as an Associate Lecturer in 2006, successfully applying for a permanent Lecturer in Criminology post in 2007. I have progressed from a Lecturer in Criminology (2007-2010), through to a Senior Lecturer in Criminology (2010-2017), Reader in Criminology (2017-2020) and, most recently in 2020, to Professor of Criminology through SHU’s academic careers framework. I currently lead research in the Department of Law and Criminology and am the coordinator for the University’s Unit of Assessment 20 Social Work and Social Policy REF2021 submission. Most recently, I have focused on capacity building and the development of the research profiles of Department of Law and Criminology’s early career researchers, including researching, writing and publishing with new lecturers and some of the department’s undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Subject Area
Criminology
Modules
Dissertation, Cybercrime and Society.
Publications
Journal articles
Banks, J., & Waters, J. (2022). . Probation Quarterly, (26), 51-54.
Banks, J. (2022). . Gambling Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Exchange Ontario (GREO).
Banks, J., & Waters, J. (2022). . Sociological Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Online.
Banks, J., & Waters, J. (2022). . The International Review of Victimology.
Zerafa, A., Banks, J., & Waters, J. (2021). . Journal of Financial Crime.
Banks, J., Addis, N., & Waters, J. (2020). . Gaming Law Review, 24 (9), 592-599.
Wardle, H., Banks, J., Bebbington, P., Blank, L., Bowden Jones Obe, H., Bramley, S., ... Zendle, D. (2020). Open letter from UK based academic scientists to the secretaries of state for digital, culture, media and sport and for health and social care regarding the need for independent funding for the prevention and treatment of gambling harms. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 370, m2613.
Banks, J., Waters, J., Andersson, C., & Olive, V. (2019). Problem and pathological gambling rates are high among prison populations. Gambling Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Exchange Ontario (GREO).
Banks, J., Waters, J., Andersson, C., & Olive, V. (2019). . International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology.
Banks, J., & Waugh, D. (2018). . International gambling studies, 1-19.
Banks, J., & Albertson, K. (2018). . European Journal of Criminology, 15 (6), 730-747.
Albertson, K., Banks, J., & Murray, E. (2017). . Prison Service Journal, 234, 23-30.
Banks, J. (2015). . Crime, Media, Culture, 11 (3), 259-279.
Banks, J. (2013). . Crime, Media, Culture, 9 (2), 171-187.
Banks, J. (2012). The ETHICOMP Journal.
Banks, J., & Moxon, D. (2012). . CrimeTalk.
Banks, J. (2012). . Critical Criminology : International Journal, 20 (3), 293-310.
Banks, J. (2011). . European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 19 (1), 1-13.
Banks, J. (2011). . The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice, 50 (2), 184-198.
Banks, J. (2010). . International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 24 (3), 233-239.
Banks, J. (n.d.). . Prison Service Journal, (175), 43-49.
Banks, J. (n.d.). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵSnapshots.
Book chapters
Banks, J., & Andersson, C. (2023). . In Mellins, M., Wheatley, R., & Flowers, C. (Eds.) Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse. Palgrave:
Banks, J., & Andersson, C. (2023). The Role of Technology in Stalking and Coercive Control Among Young People. In Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse. (pp. 121-140).
Banks, J. (2021). . In Johnson, M. (Ed.) The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader. Bloomsbury:
Banks, J. (2020). Gambling. In Huebner, B.M. (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Oxford University Press
Banks, J. (2017). . In Steinmetz, K.F., & Nobles, M.R. (Eds.) Technocrime and criminological theory. (pp. 102-115). New York: Taylor & Francis:
Banks, J. (2014). . In Lumsden, K., & Winter, A. (Eds.) Reflexivity in criminological research : experience with the powerful and powerless. (pp. 289-300). London: Palgrave Macmillan
Banks, J., & Moxon, D. (2013). . In Cowburn, M., Duggan, M., Robinson, A., & Senior, P. (Eds.) Values in criminology and community justice. (pp. 109-125). Bristol: Policy Press
Books
Banks, J. (2017). . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Banks, J. (2014). . Farnham: Ashgate.
Reports
Banks, J., Addis, N., Cadet, N., & De Hoog, F. (2020). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Banks, J., Andersson, C., Best, D., Edwards, M., & Waters, J. (2018). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Andersson, C., Best, D., Irving, J., Edwards, M., Banks, J., Mama-Rudd, A., & Hamer, R. (2018). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ for Alcohol Ï㽶ÊÓƵ UK.
Internet Publications
Banks, J. (2021). .
Other publications
Banks, J. (2022). . Unpublished
Banks, J. (2022). . Unpublished
Banks, J., & Waters, J. (2019). Response to the Howard League's Commission on Crime and Problem Gambling's Call for Evidence.
Postgraduate supervision
Antonio Zerafa - Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Remote Gaming; Lucy Pointon - Problem Gambling and Family Violence.