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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...

Sign up for our free online Art Crime course and WIN!

25th January 2016

Interested in art crime and antiquities trafficking? Want to learn more in a fun, interactive online course? February 1 sees the start of a brand new online course taught by researchers from the University of Glasgow’s Trafficking Culture project. Sign up by the end of January and tweet to let us know (including #ArtCrimeFL) for the chance to win one of four sets of Kulturmeister’s...

Seminar by Alistair Fraser on Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City

21st January 2016

Dr Alistair Fraser will discuss his new book on young people and gang identity in Glasgow on Wednesday, February 10 as part of this semester’s University of Glasgow Sociology Seminar Series. Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (Oxford University Press) tells a story of young people, gang identity, and social change in Glasgow, challenging the perceptions of gangs as a...

Professor Susan McVie awarded an OBE in New Year Honours list

5th January 2016

The SCCJR’s Susan McVie has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list in recognition of her services to social sciences. Susan, who is Professor of Quantitative Criminology at the University of Edinburgh, has been a key member of the SCCJR team since the centre’s inception. In addition she is co-director of the longitudinal Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, and...

SCCJR researchers contribute to free book on the trafficking of cultural goods

17th December 2015

Researchers from the SCCJR’s Trafficking Culture team have contributed three chapters to a new book about antiquities trafficking published by the International Council of Museums. Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods: The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage comprises 16 chapters and is available free online. SCCJR research Associate Donna Yates has contributed a...

Auction house Christie’s withdraws antiquities after identification by Trafficking Culture expert

10th December 2015

Christie’s in New York has withdrawn antiquities from sale after they were identifed by Trafficking Culture researcher Christos Tsirogiannis. A Canosan terracotta figure of Zeus and Ganymede was described as coming from “an important American collection”, but documentation in the archive of Gianfranco Becchina – an Italian antiquities dealer who has been convicted of...

SCCJR electronic monitoring research to be presented at international conference

3rd December 2015

Research on electronic monitoring in Scotland by Hannah Graham and Gill McIvor, both of the University of Stirling, will be presented at a free international conference on March 17th 2016 in London. The conference will provide an opportunity to hear about, and engage with, the findings of the European Commission funded project entitled ‘Creativity and Effectiveness in the use electronic...

Free SCCJR symposium: Constructing ‘Problematic’ Identities

2nd December 2015

The SCCJR is hosting a small symposium at the University of Stirling on Friday December 18, aimed at exploring issues around the construction and reconstruction of identities and, in particular, those deemed ‘problematic’. The day aims to consolidate several diverse areas of work and will provide a forum for discussion and debate around the construction and re-presentation of identities, the...

SASO event: The End of Short Prison Sentences?

30th November 2015

Professor Fergus McNeill will join a panel of experts at a SASO event in Glasgow this week to discuss the Scottish Government’s current consultation about extending the presumption against short prison sentences from three to 12 months. The event, titled The End of Short Prison Sentences?, will take place on Thursday December 3rd at 6.30pm at St George’s Tron church on Buchanan Street. It...

Trafficking Culture film night: December 3

19th November 2015

A film night is taking place next month to coincide with the Trafficking Culture exhibition at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. A screening of Dance of Maize God will be followed by a panel discussion with Trafficking Culture coordinator Simon Mackenzie and Research Fellow Donna Yates. The event will take place at the Hunterian on Thursday, December 3 from 5pm to 8pm. The documentary film,...