About Jonathan Shepherd
Jonathan Shepherd, B.D.S., Ph.D., D.D.S., is Professor of Oral and Maxillo facial Surgery and Director of the Violence and Society Research Group at the School of Dentistry at the University of Cardiff in Wales, UK.
Dr. Shepherd has developed and tested effective strategies for reducing facial injuries in bar fights using broken glass, as well as for treating binge-drinking patterns in the course of criminal justice responses to assaults. By constructing a randomized trial testing different kinds of glass in different taverns, he showed that engineering tests of glass had failed to predict which glassware caused the most serious wounds. His leadership in forming a community partnership against crime and disorder was replicated as a national strategy by the UK government, (Crime and Disorder Act 1998). The UK glass industry switched to the manufacture of toughened glassware. He also helped to develop a national measure of violence using hospital data as a check on both police and victim survey data, and better treatments of post-traumatic stress caused by incidents of violence, (Domestic Violence and Victims of Crime Act 2005).
Dr. Shepherd has worked with several other important research projects focusing on the extent and character of violent crime and has participated in the development of other programmes to prevent violence and to provide assistance to the victims of violence.
Key facts on Jonathan Shepherd
Born: 1949 in the United Kingdom
Employment: University of Cardiff School of Dentistry
Website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/dentistry/research/phacr/violence/staff/bio_jps.htm
Publications representative of the work of Jonathan Shepherd
1. Shepherd JP, Lisle C. Towards multi-agency violence prevention and victim support. An investigation of police-accident and emergency liaison. British Journal of Criminology 1998;38:351-370.
2. Sivarajasingam V, Shepherd JP. Trends in community violence in England and Wales 1995-8. Emergency Medicine Journal 2001;18:105-109.
3. Sutherland I, Shepherd JP. Social dimensions of adolescent substance use. Addiction 2001;96:445-458.
4. Sutherland I, Shepherd JP. A personality-based model of adolescent violence. British Journal of Criminology 2002;42:433-441.
5. Lyons RA, Jones S, Kemp A, Sibert J, Shepherd JP, Richmond P, Bartlett C, Palmer S. Development and use of a population based injury surveillance system. Injury Prevention 2002;8:83-86.
6. Bisson JI, Shepherd JP, Probert R, Joy D, Newcombe RG. Early cognitive - behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress symptoms: randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Psychiatry 2004;184:63-69.
7. Warburton AL, Shepherd JP. Development, utilisation and importance of accident and emergency derived assault data in violence management. Emergency Medicine Journal 2004;21:473-477.
8. Warburton Al, Shepherd JP. Tackling alcohol related violence in city centres: effect of emergency medicine and police intervention. Emergency Medicine Journal 2006;23:12-17.
