SCCJR

Welcome to the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling and Strathclyde. The SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding of justice.

Latest Publications

SCCJR Bulletin: December 2018

Community experiences of serious organised crime: Summary findings

Latest Projects

Measuring Justice: Defining Concepts, Developing Practice

In this project, researchers are gathering information about how experiences of criminal justice settings and processes can be conceptualised and measured. A justice experience can include contact with police, going to court, experiencing a criminal sanction, in the context of being a vicitm, witness, perpetrator or accused, family member or professional. How different people experience a criminal justice setting shapes...

Scottish Justice Fellowships

Scottish Justice Fellows is a new initiative putting research to work. In this scheme, the Scottish Government, SCCJR and SIPR are partnering to support recent PhD scholars translate their research into outputs that can inform policy and practice. There is substantial untapped resource in PhDs completed in Scotland on policing, crime, justice and related issues and Fellowships aim to support further knowledge exchange...

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Congratulations to SCCJR's Alistair Fraser @crmnlgy who was presented with an award for his co-authored paper, The Second Life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, Media and Cultural Memory’ at the @HKUniversity Hong Kong Studies Association Annual Conference last week.

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British Journal of Community Justice @bjcommunityjust·

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Criminalised women is making headlines in the news this week...our upcoming special issue on #women is more and more relevant. Coming in January 2018 and #openaccess
BBC News - Are too many women being jailed in Wales? https://t.co/In0fVqCHmn

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CommunityJusticeScot @ComJusScot·

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"There’s something wrong with Scotland but we just can’t see it" says @karynmccluskey @TheScotsman We need to deliver change that people can see on our streets, in our schools, in our courts, in our prisons, and in our communities. Read more: https://t.co/hnLFH7ygJq #SmartJustice

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Francesca Soliman @FraSoliman·

17 Dec

Reflections on the footprint of migration research:
"As we belatedly join a prolific research field, we must be wary of the dangers of following blindly down well-trodden paths"
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susan mcvie @susanmcvie·

17 Dec

Was there #Scottish exceptionalism in #Violence trends: #Glasgow vs #London? Check out our new blog based on @ESRC-funded @AQMeNNetwork research on regional crime trends. https://t.co/dwxfkzizgB @U_Inequalities @EllieJWBates

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