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Our busy centre regularly shares news about the latest research findings, funding announcements, seminars and other events.

Stay connected with us and our work by joining us at one or our events. We currently have a Seminar Series and workshops on the Social Analysis of Penality Across Boundaries which is co-organised with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) in Argentina. We will list them on our Events pages or follow us on Bluesky @theSCCJR.

Our Just Humans podcast also a great way for you to get to know us and  the people who make the Centre. Listen to Season 1 -4  to learn more about their lives, their work, what inspires them and makes them tick.

 

Recent News

8th July 2026

📣 Call for information: Has anything changed in the Scotland’s folk and traditional music scene?

4th May 2026

AI fails to make inroads with cybercriminals

15th April 2026

SCCJR PhD Podcast Launch – Just Ask . . .

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18th March 2026

Reflections on the Thistle – Glasgow’s safer drug consumption facility

11th March 2026

SCCJR PhD students to turn their theses into policy briefings

24th February 2026

New SCCJR Youth Work Resource Launched

3rd February 2026

SCCJR Funding Announcement 2026

28th January 2026

New Book Takes the Temperature of Violence Reduction Units in Scotland & England

22nd January 2026

81% of women musicians in the Scottish folk music scene who participated in a new survey have been sexually assaulted or harassed

Just Humans Podcast

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Just Humans Episode 1

Young Thug: Art as Evidence in the War on Gangs

Dr Gemma Flynn unpacks this extraordinary case in her latest zine called, ‘Slime: The State of Georgia v. Young Thug, The art of evidence in the war on gangs’.

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Just Humans Episode 2

The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation

Dr Kirstin Anderson talks about a new book she’s edited called 'The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation'.

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Just Humans Episode 1

Darkness: Dr Anna Souhami

Our first episode is about darkness with Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh.

Listen now

Just Humans Episode 3

Letters from Prison: An Exploration of Isolation

Over the last year Deborah Russo has been working on a written correspondence project which has seen her amass more than 150 letters from people in prison, detailing personal accounts of their experiences of isolation.

Listen now

Upcoming Events

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Past Events

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“I will tell her if she wants to know”: Children’s autonomy and family relationships in parental incarceration disclosure.

7th October 2026

12:30

HYBRID - University of Strathclyde / Zoom Online

Video Available

Justice Futures: Questioning Punishment and Feeling Justice

28th April 2026

12:00

Online

Video Available

Prison Violence and the Search for Recognition and Respect

29th April 2026

16:00

Online

The potential role of juvenile correctional centres in preventing violence and radicalism

19th May 2026

12:00

Online

Video Available

Challenging Anti-carceral Feminism with Clare McGlynn

26th May 2026

12:00

Online

The Rule of Wonder: Prison Theatre and the Governance of Participation in China

27th May 2026

16:00

Online

Police and Deaths in Scotland: Prevention, Investigation, Transparency

26th May 2026

University of Strathclyde

Boundaries, Bodies, and Control: Women’s Confinement Across History

11th June 2026

12:00

University of Glasgow, Humanities Research Hub (Ground Floor, 1 University Gardens)

Video Available

Exploring Low Turnout of Enfranchised Prisoners in Spain

16th June 2026

12:00

Online

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