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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,...

Seminar: Searching for Pearls: Reflections on Researching the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott

26th October 2015

Dr Susan Batchelor The SCCJR’s Susan Batchelor will chair an event this autumn about pioneering sociologist Pearl Jephcott as part of the University of Glasgow Sociology department’s current seminar series. John Goodwin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, will present on ‘Searching for Pearls: Reflections on Researching the Life and Work of Pearl...

SASO lecture: Where have all the young offenders gone?

26th October 2015

SCCJR PhD student Ben Matthews will deliver a public lecture next month titled ‘Where have all the young offenders gone?’ as part of the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending (SASO) series. The lecture, which is free and open to all, will take place on Tuesday November 3 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in the city’s Chambers Street. Ben will draw on the findings from his...

SCCJR PhD student Martin Cathcart Froden wins major literary prize

22nd October 2015

One of the SCCJR’s newest PhD students, Martin Cathcart Froden, has won a prestigious prize for debut novelists. Martin beat off competition from almost 500 other writers to take the Dundee International Book Prize for his novel Devil Take the Hindmost, winning a £10,000 cash prize and a publication deal. His PhD research is an exploration through creative writing of the relationship...

Free online course in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime

22nd October 2015

Learners from around the globe are taking part in a brand new online course taught by members of the Trafficking Culture team led by Dr Donna Yates. More than 8000 people have signed up for the three-week course on Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime, which tackles the question “How do we protect our heritage from theft, illegal sale, and destruction?” By combining cutting-edge...

SCCJR contributes to Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland

21st October 2015

The new book Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland features chapters by SCCJR staff on organised crime, desistance and criminal justice policy in Scotland. The book, edited by Hazel Croall, Gerry Mooney and Mary Munro, is an edited collection of new and topical chapters that builds upon the success of 2010’s Criminal Justice in Scotland. It offers a critical overview of Scottish criminal...

Youth, Politics and the Art of Resistance

5th October 2015

Dr Alistair Fraser from the (Re)Imagining Youth team is to present a one-off evening event in Glasgow focusing on the role of young people in the recent political movements in Scotland and Hong Kong. From Umbrella Movement to Indyref: Youth, Politics and the Art of Resistance will take place on October 13 at the city’s CCA, and will include a screening of the documentary film Lessons in...

Knife crime interventions: What Works?

28th September 2015

SCCJR PhD student Rebecca Foster will be presenting about knife crime interventions on Tuesday, September 29th at a No Knives, Better Lives (NKBL) network event. She will be discussing the background of and key findings from her SCCJR report, ‘Knife Crime Interventions: ‘What Works?’. NKBL network events offer an opportunity for partners from across Scotland to come together and share...

Top authors and musicians lined up for first Distant Voices Festival

16th September 2015

The first Distant Voices Festival will take place from November 5th to 9th at the CCA in Glasgow, exploring crime and punishment through music, writing and film. Over the past 18 months, the project – a collaboration between SCCJR and Vox Liminis (a charity that aims to bring creative practice to criminal justice and its reform) – has brought together artists, criminologists,...

Trafficking Culture: What’s It To Me? seminar series begins

14th September 2015

The Trafficking Culture exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow The Trafficking Culture Society is pleased to announce its Autumn 2015 seminar series, What’s It To Me? Relevancy and Impact of Doing Research on the Illicit Antiquities Trade. The series will explore how students and researchers from art history, museum studies, archaeology, criminology and law, both at...

Seminar: Young people with cognitive disability in contact with the criminal justice system

9th September 2015

The SCCJR has co-organised an event about disability and criminal justice as part of the University of Glasgow Sociology department’s forthcoming seminar series. Leanne Dowse, Associate Professor and Chair in Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support at UNSW Australia, will present on ‘Lost in Transition: young people with cognitive disability in contact with the criminal justice...

Trafficking Culture exhibition opens in Glasgow

7th September 2015

Members of the Trafficking Culture team at the exhibition opening. From left, Dr Donna Yates, Professor Simon Mackenzie, SCCJR associate Tess Davis, and PhD students Meg Lambert, Annemiek Rhebergen and Christine Weirich An exhibition about the fascinating work of Trafficking Culture is now open at the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow. The display features special loan items from the...

Seminar: Forensic challenges to law enforcement in Pakistan

3rd September 2015

Our visiting Commonwealth Scholar, Sharjil Kharal of the Police Service of Pakistan,will present a seminar next week at the University of Glasgow on ‘Forensic challenges to law enforcement in Pakistan’. Sharjil will give a short presentation on the following topics, after which there will be an opportunity for discusson: Current law...

Trafficking Culture team present at European archaeology conference

2nd September 2015

The European Association of Archaeologists comes to Glasgow this week for its annual meeting, and our Trafficking Culture academics will be delivering an afternoon of papers. Trafficking Culture: Research into the Global Traffic in Cultural Objects at the University of Glasgow is being held at the university’s Mathematics Building, Room 325, on Thursday September 3 from 1.30pm to...

SCCJR at Eurocrim 2015

2nd September 2015

The SCCJR is very well represented at Eurocrim2015, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology taking place this week in Porto, Portugal. Our academics will be speaking on a wide range of topics, from electronic monitoring of offenders and community sanctions to the political economy of punishment and changing patterns of victimisation. Below are the titles of their...

Electronic Monitoring: Tagging Technologies in Criminal Justice

26th August 2015

A new report on electronic monitoring (EM) has been published by the SCCJR, as Cabinet Secretary for Justice Michael Matheson MSP announced the Scottish Government’s future vision for the use of EM tagging technologies at a conference in Perth. The Scottish and International Review of the Uses of Electronic Monitoring, by Dr Hannah Graham and Prof. Gill McIvor of the University of Stirling,...

Hug a Thug? Crime and punishment debate at the Edinburgh Fringe

18th August 2015

The SCCJR’s Professor Susan McVie will aim to challenge preconceptions about “soft touch” justice with an event at the Edinburgh Fringe. She will be joined by her University of Edinburgh colleague Professor Lesley McAra to share stories of prisoners and victims and help the audience design their ideal prison. The event forms part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas at The Stand in...

New book about community punishment in Europe sheds light on ‘mass supervision’

6th August 2015

The SCCJR’s Fergus McNeill has co-edited a new book exploring the origins, evolution and adaptations of supervision in 11 European jurisdictions. Community Punishment: European Perspectives, co-edited with Gwen Robinson of the University of Sheffield, advances the sociology of punishment by illuminating the neglected but crucial phenomenon of ‘mass supervision’. As well as...