Dr Simon Mackenzie


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Institution

University of Glasgow

Job Title

Reader

Telephone

+44 (0)141 330 4303

Email

Simon.Mackenzie@glasgow.ac.uk

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About

 

Postal address:       SCCJR, Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street, University of Glasgow, G12 8LR

Fax:                             0141 330 4300

 

Qualifications:

  • LLB (Hons) (Edinburgh)
  • Diploma in Legal Practice (Edinburgh)
  • Postgrad Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Keele) 
  • MPhil in Criminological Research (Cantab)
  • PhD in Criminology (Melbourne)

Previous academic posts:

  • Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Westminster
  • Lecturer in the Criminology Department at Keele University

Research interests: 

  • White-collar crime
  • Criminal markets and organised crime
  • Transnational crime
  • Art crime (esp the international market in illicit antiquities)
  • Qualitative research methods (esp socio-legal ethnography and phenomenology)
  • Policing and regulation

Recent grants, contracts, awards:

  • European Council, Prevention of and fight against crime programme, The governance of security and the analysis of risk for sporting mega-events: security planning for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2010-12 (with Michele Burman, Nick Fyfe, Niall Hamilton-Smith, Chris Johnson and Allan McConnell)
  • AHRC knowledge transfer fellowship, Community policing in Scotland, 2009-11 (with Alistair Henry)
  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Prevention of trafficking in cultural property, 2009
  • Home Office, A rapid evidence assessment of the drivers of perceptions of anti-social behaviour, 2009 (with Andrew Millie, John Flint, Sadie Parr and Jon Bannister)
  • SCDEA, Measuring police impact on organised crime: a review of the SCDEA's key performance indicators, 2009 (with Niall Hamilton-Smith and Sarah Armstrong)
  • Nuffield Foundation, Civility amongst strangers: social interaction in urban public spaces, 2009 (with Gesa Helms PI, Nick Fyfe and Jon Bannister)
  • European Union, EU-Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational Training, Governance and security: challenges to policing in the 21st century, 2006-09 (with Susanne Karstedt)
  • British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2006 for Going, Going, Gone: Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities
  • ESRC, Criminalising the market in looted antiquities, 2005-07 (with Penny Green)

Service:

  • Chair of the Prizes Committee and member of the Executive Committee, British Society of Criminology
  • Collaborating with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency to develop new intervention strategies to prevent organised crime

Publications:

As well as the links at the bottom of the page, many of the publications listed below are available for download at SSRN - click here to visit that page.

Selected published writing:

  • S. Mackenzie (2011), 'The Market as Criminal and Criminals in the Market: Reducing Opportunities for Organised Crime in the International Antiquities Market', in S. Manacorda and D. Chappell (eds) Crime in the Art and Antiquities World: Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property, pp. 69-86. New York: Springer.
  • S. Mackenzie and N. Hamilton-Smith (2011), 'Measuring Police Impact on Organised Crime: Performance Management and Harm Reduction', Policing: an International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, Vol. 34, No. 1: 7-30.
  • S. Mackenzie (2011), 'Trafficking Antiquities', in M. Natarajan (ed) International Crime and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • N. Hamilton-Smith and S. Mackenzie 'The Geometry of Shadows: a Critical Review of Organised Crime Risk Assessments', Policing & Society, Vol. 20, Iss. 3 (2010).
  • S. Mackenzie 'Counterfeiting as Corporate Externality: Intellectual Property Crime and Global Insecurity', Crime, Law & Social Change, Vol. 54, No. 1 (2010): 21-38.
  • S. Mackenzie, J. Bannister, J. Flint, S. Parr, A. Millie and J. Fleetwood, The Drivers of Perceptions of Anti-social Behaviour, Research Report 34. London: Home Office (2010).
  • S. Mackenzie, 'Fakes', in F. Brookman, M. Maguire, H. Pierpoint and T. Bennett (eds) Handbook on Crime, pp. 120-36. Cullompton, Devon: Willan (2010).
  • S. Mackenzie, 'Scams', in F. Brookman, M. Maguire, H. Pierpoint and T. Bennett (eds) Handbook on Crime, pp. 137-52. Cullompton, Devon: Willan (2010).
  • S. Mackenzie and P. Green (eds), Criminology and Archaeology: Studies in Looted Antiquities. Oñati International Series in Law and Society. Oxford: Hart (2009).
  • S. Mackenzie and A. Henry, Community Policing: a Review of the Evidence. Edinburgh: Scottish Government Social Research (2009).
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Identifying and Preventing Opportunities for Organised Crime in the International Antiquities Market’, in S. Manacorda (ed) Organised Crime in Art and Antiquities. Milan, Italy: International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (2009).
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘The Seductions of Conformity: the Criminological Importance of a Phenomenology of Exchange’, in R. Lippens and D. Crewe (eds) Existentialist Criminology. London: Routledge-Cavendish (2009).
  • S. Mackenzie, How to Reduce Youth Crime and Anti-social Behaviour by Going Round in Circles, IPPR policy paper. London: Institute for Public Policy Research (2008).
  • S. Mackenzie,  ‘Second-chance Punitivism and the Contractual Governance of Crime and Incivility: New Labour, Old Hobbes’ Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2008): 214-239. 
  • S. Mackenzie and P. Green, ‘Performative Regulation: a Case Study in How Powerful People Avoid Criminal Labels’ British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2008): 138-153.
  • S. Armstrong, Y. Chistyakova, S. Mackenzie and M. Malloch, Circles of Support and Accountability: Consideration of the Feasibility of Pilots in Scotland (2008).
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Transnational Crime, Local Denial’, in S. Pickering and J. McCulloch (eds) Social Justice Special Issue: Beyond Transnational Crime, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2007): 111-124.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Tit for Tat: Criminal Justice Policy and the Evolution of Co-operation’ The Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, Vol. 13 (2007): 58-71.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Dealing in Cultural Objects: a New Criminal Law for the UK’ Amicus Curiae: Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Iss. 71 (2007): 8-18.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Systematic Crimes of the Powerful: Criminal Aspects of the Global Economy’ Social Justice, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2006): 162-182.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Psychosocial Balance Sheets: Illicit Purchase Decisions in the Antiquities Market’ Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 18, No. 2 (2006): 221-240.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Situationally Edited Empathy: an Effect of Socio-economic Structure on Individual Choice’ Critical Criminology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2006): 365-385.
  • S. Mackenzie, Going, Going, Gone: Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities. Leicester, UK: Institute of Art and Law (2005).
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Criminal and Victim Profiles in Art Theft: Motive, Opportunity and Repeat Victimisation’ Art Antiquity and Law, Vol. X, Iss. 4 (2005): 353-370.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Behaviour on London Buses and Tubes: Three Cases of Incivility’ Internet Journal of Criminology, December 2005.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Dig a Bit Deeper: Law, Regulation and the Illicit Antiquities Market’ British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2005): 249-268. 
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘What Can Systems Theory Do for You?’ Traffic, No. 4 (2004): 103-120.
  • A.T. Kenyon and S. Mackenzie, ‘Recovering Stolen Art – Legal Understandings in the Australian Art Market’ University of Tasmania Law Review, Vol. 21, Iss. 2 (2002): 1-22.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities’ Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 239. Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra (2002).
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Illicit Antiquities, Criminological Theory and the Deterrent Power of Criminal Sanctions for Targeted Populations’ Art, Antiquity and Law, Vol. VII, Iss. 2 (2002): 125-161.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Organised Crime and Common Transit Networks’ Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 233. Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra (2002).
  • A.T. Kenyon and S. Mackenzie, ‘Recovering Stolen Art: Australian, English and US Law on Limitations of Action’, University of Western Australia Law Review, Vol. 30, Iss. 2 (2002): 233-250.
  • S. Mackenzie, ‘Anti-social Behaviour Orders: Problems and Effects’, Forensic Update: a Journal of the Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society, Iss. 64 (2001): 15-19.

Subjects

Publications

Measuring Police Impact on Organised Crime: Performance Management and Harm Reduction(Journal Article)
The Market as Criminal and Criminals in the Market: Reducing Opportunities for Organised Crime in the International Antiquities Market(Book Chapter)
The drivers of perceptions of anti-social behaviour(Research Report)
Fakes(Book Chapter)
Scams(Book Chapter)
Counterfeiting as Corporate Externality: Intellectual Property Crime and Global Insecurity(Journal Article)
The Geometry of Shadows: a Critical Review of Organised Crime Risk Assessments(Journal Article)
'Trafficking Antiquities'(Book Chapter)
The Seductions of Conformity: the Criminological Importance of a Phenomenology of Exchange(Book)
Identifying and Preventing Opportunities for Organised Crime in the International Antiquities Market(Book Chapter)
Criminology and Archaeology(Book)
Public Space CCTV in Scotland: Results of a National Survey of Scotland's Local Authorities(Research Report)
Community policing: a Review of the Evidence(Research Report)
Protection against trafficking in cultural property(Research Report)
How to Reduce Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour by Going Round in Circles(Policy Report)
Second-chance Punitivism and the Contractual Governance of Crime and Incivility: New Labour, Old Hobbes(Journal Article)
Performative Regulation: a Case Study in How Powerful People Avoid Criminal Labels(Journal Article)
Circles of Support & Accountability: Consideration of the Feasibility of Pilots in Scotland(Research Report)
Dealing in Cultural Objects: a New Criminal Law for the UK (Journal Article)
Tit for Tat: Criminal Justice Policy and the Evolution of Co-operation (Journal Article)
Criminalising the Market in Illicit Antiquities: an Evaluation of the Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act 2003 (Working Paper)
Review of Understanding Political Violence by Vincenzo Ruggiero (Book Review)
Transnational Crime, Local Denial(Journal Article)
Systematic Crimes of the Powerful: Criminal Aspects of the Global Economy’ (Journal Article)
Psychosocial Balance Sheets: Illicit Purchase Decisions in the Antiquities Market(Journal Article)
Situationally Edited Empathy: An Effect of Socio-Economic Structure on Individual Choice (Journal Article)

Projects