News & Events

University in Uzbekistan Joins SCCJR as New International Partner

1st June 2021

We are delighted to announce that a new international partner has joined the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Tashkent State University of Law in Uzbekistan is the latest to join the Centre. In 2018 SCCJR formalised partnerships with internationally renowned criminological research centres and departments: the Universities of...

Campaign Calls for Scotland to Reduce Remand Prisoner Population

24th May 2021

The total number of people on remand in Scottish prisons has risen during the Covid-19 pandemic to 27% of the prison population prompting calls for action to be taken immediately. A collective of individuals, including members of The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and Howard League Scotland are leading on a week of social media...

New Just About…event series launched

18th May 2021

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research has launched a new event series called Just About. . . It is a new initiative which combines podcast and webinar formats to explore topical justice issues and to promote dialogue amongst academics, activists, practitioners and policymakers. Each event begins with the live-streaming of a...

New research will look at demise of Mother and Baby Homes & Magdalene Laundries

31st March 2021

Dr Louise Brangan, University of Stirling, has been awarded an ESRC New Investigator Grant for her new project ‘Mass Decarceration: A critical social history’. The three-year study will look at the demise of Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in the Republic of Ireland between 1970-1998. In 1950s Ireland, Magdalene Laundries...

A Life in Pieces – School Resource launched

10th March 2021

A graphic novel which aims to bring life to a Scottish woman’s story of trauma, substance abuse and prison has now been turned into a series of educational resources for Modern Studies students. ‘A Life in Pieces’ is the work of Dr Marguerite Schinkel, a lecturer in Sociology based at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research,...