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SASO Student Essay Competition 2016

22nd August 2016

The Scottish Association for the Study of Offending (SASO), in conjunction with SCCJR, awards an annual essay prize open to students of criminology and/or criminal justice. This year’s contest is open to Honours undergradute students at any Scottish university, with entries to be submitted by teaching staff. The £250 prize will be awarded at the SASO Conference to be held at The...

SCCJR at the Edinburgh Fringe: Hug a Thug returns!

10th August 2016

Professors Susan McVie and Lesley McAra are reviving their show Hug a Thug for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe as part of the The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas. The show poses questions including: Do you think the criminal justice system is a soft touch? Do you think that prisons make life too easy for criminals? Would you like to bring back hanging? Profs McVie and McAra will tell the stories...

We’re hiring! University of Stirling seeks Lecturer in Criminology

18th July 2016

Fancy joining the SCCJR? The University of Stirling is seeking to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Criminology to work in collaboration with the new Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research. The successful candidate will have teaching and research interests in the area of addictions, and a strong commitment to education and research in criminology. The new lecturer will be an...

Alistair Fraser and Beth Weaver share British Society of Criminology book prize

11th July 2016

From left, Beth Weaver, BSC Prize Convenor James Treadwell, and Alistair Fraser Two Scottish researchers have won the British Society of Criminology’s Criminology Book Prize. The SCCJR’s Dr Alistair Fraser, of the University of Glasgow, and SCCJR associate Dr Beth Weaver, of the University of Strathclyde, were recognised for their titles on two wide-ranging topics: youth gangs and...

Research shows growing support for changes to the use of electronic monitoring tagging in Scotland

30th June 2016

Findings and recommendations released in a new report by SCCJR criminologists Prof Gill McIvor and Dr Hannah Graham of the University of Stirling indicate support among criminal justice practitioners to make key changes to the use of electronic monitoring tagging in Scotland. Their study sought the views of criminal justice social workers, Scottish Prison Service staff, sheriffs, the Parole Board...

Major award win for agenda-setting SCCJR researcher Kath Murray

23rd June 2016

Kath Murray, right, with Natalie Aguilera of award sponsor SAGE Publishing The SCCJR’s Dr Kath Murray has been awarded a prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) prize for her hugely influential work on police stop-and-search practices. She was presented with the £10,000 award for Outstanding Early Career Impact at a ceremony in London last night. The judging panel...

PhD project Paws for Progress wins Royal Bank of Scotland funding

14th June 2016

Paws the Progress, the prison-based dog training programme established by SCCJR PhD student Rebecca Leonardi, has won funding from the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Skills & Opportunities Fund. The innovative project is one of 44 winners in the latest funding round, for which there were more than 900 entries, so this is a terrific achievement and great endorsement for the project. The bank...

Rehabilitation Work by Hannah Graham: ‘A truly remarkable achievement’

13th June 2016

A new book by SCCJR and University of Stirling criminologist Dr Hannah Graham has been hailed as “a truly remarkable achievement” and an “important contribution to the recovery and desistance literature”. Rehabilitation Work: Supporting Desistance and Recovery reveals compelling differences between official and institutional accounts of rehabilitation work, and the...

Justice Reinvestment and Social Justice: Beyond ‘What Works’

25th May 2016

The SCCJR is delighted to be hosting seminar next month by Professor Julie Stubbs on Justice Reinvestment and Social Justice: Beyond ‘What Works’. Julie Stubbs is a criminologist and professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. She is visiting London and Glasgow as part of her current research on alternatives to women’s imprisonment. Much of...

Award nod for Dr Kath Murray recognises huge impact of stop-and-search work

11th May 2016

The SCCJR’s Dr Kath Murray has been shortlisted for a prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) prize for her agenda-setting work on police stop-and-search practices. The Economic and Social Research Council’s Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards researchers whose work has made a real difference to society or the economy. Kath’s PhD research on stop...

Call for articles for Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies

10th May 2016

The Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies is the official journal of the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending (SASO). The Journal, which is peer reviewed, is keen to publish original articles on matters of interest to the Scottish criminal justice community, and would particularly encourage articles from practitioners, and those with practice experience that informs the...

SCCJR student Annie Crowley wins prestigious feminist research scholarship

4th May 2016

SCCJR PhD student Annie Crowley has beaten off competition from around the globe to be awarded the 2016 Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship. This is an outstanding achievement, as an unprecedented number of entries were received this year. The scholarship is awarded annually by the Division on Women and Crime (DWC) of the American Society of Criminology, to “an...

Working Lunch, April 20: Shame, guilt and delinquency

18th April 2016

Postgraduate researcher Arne De Boeck is visiting Scotland from the University of Leuven and will be delivering a working lunch this week about his research on the social origins of adolescents’ anticipated shame and guilt feelings in delinquent situations. Arne will present the first results of a quantitative study in which several hypotheses on the differences in adolescents’ anticipated...

PhD studentship opportunity: Stop and Search in Scotland

7th April 2016

Applications are open for an ESRC collaborative PhD studentship titled ‘Stop and Search in Scotland: An analysis of police practice and culture in a time of change’. The studentship is being offered by the University of Dundee in partnership with Police Scotland, and will focus on an area that has received widespread attention in recent years thanks to the work of SCCJR researcher Kath...

Alistair Fraser’s Urban Legends shortlisted for major ethnography award

6th April 2016

Dr Alistair Fraser‘s book Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City was among six shortlisted for a major award this spring. BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, in association with the British Sociological Association, presents The Ethnography Award annually to a study that has made a significant contribution to ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life...

Trafficking Culture researchers join landmark UNESCO round table in Paris

4th April 2016

Researchers from the Trafficking Culture team have participated in a UNESCO round table event in Paris on the illicit trafficking of cultural property. Dr Donna Yates, Dr Neil Brodie and Dr Christos Tsirogiannis joined the discussion about what can be done to restrict the movement of stolen cultural items now and in the immediate future. After the round table Dr Yates spoke to Janie...

SSCJR projects featured in new Scottish Prison Service magazine

30th March 2016

Work by SCCJR academics is highlighted in the first edition of the Scottish Prison Service’s new e-magazine, Together. The magazine celebrates the diverse range of activities that involve the SPS joining forces with charities, academics and service providers to work with people in prison and also those making the transition back into the community. Distant Voices is a collaboration...

Offender Supervision in the EU: Four years of findings

24th March 2016

Offender Supervision in Europe, the COST Action chaired by the SCCJR’s Professor Fergus McNeill, has concluded following a major conference in Brussels. The Action, which lasted four year, has produced its final report, but work is continuing to disseminate what the participating academics learned. Resources including a series of podcast are available on the Action’s...

Offender supervision is not experienced as a “soft option”, Europe-wide research project finds

15th March 2016

Offender Supervision in Europe, the COST Action chaired by the SCCJR’s Professor Fergus McNeill, has produced its final report following a major conference in Brussels. The Action spanned 23 European countries and its three working groups boasted a total of 64 active participants, whose collective expertise encompassed criminal justice, criminology, law, psychology, social work and...

AQMeN training events showcase Scottish crime data

15th March 2016

Two crime-related training events are to be staged this spring by AQMeN (the Applied Quantitative Methods Network), of which the SCCJR’s Professor Susan McVie is director. The first, Introduction to the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) time trends data, will take place on April 18 in the University of Edinburgh’s Appleton Tower. The...