Dr Jones is the founder of the Reshape Justice Group. His is a criminologist and visiting fellow at the School of Medicine and Psychology at the Australian National University (ANU). His expertise includes interventions / rehabilitation, radicalisation / prison radicalisation, correctional reform, and prison gangs. Dr Jones has applied his research to prison and jail reform in the Philippines correctional system over the past 18 years and continues to advise Philippines correctional agencies (the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), the Bureau and Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) on areas such as the management of high-risk offenders and prison gangs. In this capacity, he has delivered over 60 workshops, courses, and conferences to the BuCor, the BJMP, and the Parole and Probation Agency. He has also worked as a senior consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Before moving into academia in 2010, he worked for over 15 years in several areas of Australian national security, including police, military, and intelligence. In 2002, he was awarded the Chief of the Australian Defence Force Fellow and, based on this fellowship, completed a PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2010.