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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...

Prison Health Symposium: call for papers

15th March 2016

A two-day symposium will take place this summer to consider the methodological and ethical dimensions of conducting health-focused social science research through and beyond prison settings. The event will be hosted by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, at its offices in Glasgow city centre on May 18 and at HMP Barlinnie on May 19. Papers are invited from students,...

Donna Yates talks to the media about major museum thefts

1st March 2016

Dr Donna Yates was interviewed for Radio 4’s Today programme and STV news after 14 members of organised crime gangs were convicted of stealing artefacts from museums worth nearly £60m. She told John Humphrys it was clear there was a large market in China for illicit antiquities – specifically, rhinoceros horn and small but very valuable Chinese antiquities – and that those...

SCCJR academics contribute to Handbook on Prisons

29th February 2016

Members of SCCJR have contributed chapters to the new edition of the Handbook on Prisons, edited by former SCCJR PhD student Jamie Bennett, Ben Crewe and Yvonne Jewkes. Richard Sparks has co-written a chapter on ‘The Politics of Imprisonment’ with University of Edinburgh PhD students Jessica Bird and Louise Brangan, while Fergus McNeill and Marguerite Schinkel of the University of...

Job vacancy: Research Fellow in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University

29th February 2016

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow in Criminology to help shape the future of policing in the East Midlands. The post is part-time (22.2 hours per week) and fixed-term for 18 months. NTU is part of an collaboration of police forces, police and crime commissioners and universities known as the East Midlands Policing Academic Collaboration (EMPAC). The new...

Mentoring helps cut reoffending, SCCJR researchers find

15th February 2016

A team of researchers including three members of SCCJR has found strong evidence that mentoring reduces risk factors associated with offending. Professor Gill McIvor, Dr Margaret Malloch (both University of Stirling) and Professor Fergus McNeill (University of Glasgow) worked alongside Professor Bill Whyte and Dr Steve Kirkwood (both University of Edinburgh) and a team from Ipsos MORI Scotland...

Distant Voices on Radio Scotland

27th January 2016

BBC Scotland presenter Ricky Ross welcomed the SCCJR’s Fergus McNeill and Alison Urie of Vox Liminis into the Sunday Morning With… studio in January to talk about Distant Voices, their collaborative project involving music-making in prisons. Fergus spoke about how the songwriting workshops encourage prisoners to open up about feelings that are often repressed in a prison...