Simon's research interests are in questions of regulation in relation to white collar crime, transnational crime, organised crime and criminal markets. He is particularly interested in the international market in illicit antiquities and is also working on community policing.
Postal address:SCCJR, Florentine House, 53 Hillhead Street, University of Glasgow, G12 8QF
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
Art crime
Socio-legal ethnography
Community policing and community justice
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 research consultancy, 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.
Current writing projects:
A chapter on the illicit antiquities market for an edited collection on International Criminal Justice (Mangai Natarajan, ed, Cambridge University Press).
A chapter on organised crime in the antiquities market for an edited collection on Crime in the Art and Antiquities World (Stephano Manacorda, ed, Springer).
And a series of journal articles on various aspects of policing organised crime.
Selected published writing:
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.
