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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Christie’s in New York has withdrawn antiquities from sale after they were identifed by Trafficking Culture researcher Christos Tsirogiannis.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,...

SCCJR students profiled in Glasgow University magazine

19th November 2015

A trio of SCCJR PhD students have been profiled in the latest edition of Glasgow University’s prestigious Horizon magazine: Annie Crowley, who is researching criminal justice responses to girls and young women deemed ‘at risk’ of secure care and custody in Scotland, Rebecca Foster, who is carrying out an ethnographic study of prisoners’ visitors at a Scottish Prison, and Meg Lambert,...

ESRC-funded PhD Studentships in Socio-Legal Studies/Criminology: The Scottish Doctoral Training Centre

17th November 2015

ESRC studentships in Socio-Legal Studies/Criminology are available at the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and Strathclyde. Interested applicants should select the university where their research area is best represented in staff research activity and apply directly there. Awards are allocated competitively by a committee representing all five universities. Successful...

Applications now open: University of Glasgow PhD Scholarships 2016

16th November 2015

Applications are invited for up to 20 scholarships being offered by the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow to study for a PhD in an area of research linked to the college’s school/subject areas. This is a highly competitive prestigious competition that attracts a large number of applications, and only high-quality candidates will be shortlisted. Anyone wishing to apply for...

Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal: Call for Special Issues

16th November 2015

Editors in Chief: Michele Burman (University of Glasgow) and Laura Piacentini (University of Strathclyde) Deadline for applications: 29 February 2016 Provisional publication date: late 2017 The new editorial team of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) are pleased to issue this call for a 2017 Special Issue. CCJ is the official journal of the British Society of Criminology and a leading outlet...

US lecture tour for Trafficking Culture team

12th November 2015

Three members of the Trafficking Culture team are heading to the US this month to deliver a series of lectures in Chicago, Washington DC and Connecticut. On November 16, Neil Brodie, Donna Yates and Simon Mackenzie will be giving joint public lectures at the University of Chicago and DePaul University, both in Chicago. The first lecture, from noon to 1.30pm at the University of Chicago, is...

(Re)Imagining Youth exhibition – last chance to see

12th November 2015

The (Re)Imagining Youth team are sharing their work in an exhibition in Glasgow that combines photographs, illustrations, audio recordings and a specially installed “close” complete with authentic graffiti by exhibition visitors. The Glasgow exhibition runs until November 14 at The Bridge, Easterhouse, and forms part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social...

Professor Jason Ditton, 1949-2015

10th November 2015

It was with much sadness that SCCJR learned of the death of Professor Jason Ditton, an esteemed former colleague and good friend of the Centre. Jason began his criminology career at Durham University, where he completed his PhD and worked as a Research Fellow. In the late 1970s he took up a lectureship at the University of Glasgow where, in 1988, he founded the Criminology Research Unit within...

‘Songs to treasure’ as Distant Voices EP is launched

10th November 2015

Distant Voices, the creative partnership between the SCCJR and charity Vox Liminis, has produced a studio EP, Distant Voices: Silent Seconds, featuring five songs written collaboratively with people in prison. The release was launched on Monday at the closing event of the first Distant Voices Festival at the CCA in Glasgow – a gig featuring songwriters Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow), Emma...

SCCJR vacancy: Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow

10th November 2015

Senior Lecturer in Criminology University of Glasgow, School of Social & Political Sciences The successful candidate will provide academic leadership by undertaking criminological research of international excellence in line with the School and College research and knowledge exchange strategies, making a substantial contribution to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and...

PhD poster competition 2015 – call for entries

9th November 2015

The SCCJR is pleased to announce its 2015 PhD Poster Competition. The competition, open to SCCJR PhD candidates in their second, third and fourth years of study, gives our researchers an opportunity to showcase their work in creative and novel ways. The winning posters will be displayed during the centre’s 10th anniversary celebrations in 2016, and the winner and runner-up will each...

Alistair Fraser on the politicisation of young people in Scotland and Hong Kong

5th November 2015

Alistair Fraser of the (Re)Imagining Youth team has written an article for The Scotsman on the politicisation of young people in Hong Kong, where he was working when the Umbrella Movement emerged, and Scotland before and after the independence referendum. Read the article here. This week sees the launch of an exhibition, (Re)Imagining Youth: From Glasgow to Hong Kong, at The Bridge, Easterhouse,...