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Ground-breaking research sees Scotland’s songwriters collaborate with individuals who have first-hand experience of the criminal justice system

11th May 2018

Distant Voices, a research project that has developed song-writing in Scottish prisons as an innovative way of exploring and enhancing rehabilitation and justice, is launching its debut album. The album, called Not Known at this Address, is a collaboration between Scottish song writing talent, people with direct experience of criminal justice,...

83% of British Transport Police Unsupportive of Merger with Police Scotland

21st February 2018

New research has found the majority (83%) of British Transport Police officers and staff in Scotland are either quite or very unsupportive of plans to integrate their division into Police Scotland. The findings come from the British Transport Police Leaving Home project which investigates the impact of integration on BTP D Division officers and...

New web project to explore the meaning of sentences

8th February 2017

Two SCCJR researchers are seeking contributions to an exciting new website, My Sentence. Research fellow Dr Marguerite Schinkel has teamed up with PhD student Alejandro Rubio Arnal on the project, which brings together their related research interests. Marguerite’s research focuses on people’s lived experiences of punishment, while Alejandro is interested in how public opinion...

Radical plans to extend tagging of offenders

4th October 2016

The Scottish Government has announced plans to radically expand the use of tagging for offenders in Scotland. The proposals would see sobriety and GPS tags introduced, and electronic monitoring used as an alternative to remand. The SCCJR’s Dr Hannah Graham joined a discussion on the topic on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland (listen here from 01:06:40), in which she said:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scottish stop and search rate falls but stays top in UK, study shows

22nd June 2015

Police stop and search figures are dropping in Scotland but the practice remains far more common than it is south of the border, research by the SCCJR shows. Numbers have fallen by 38 per cent since the formation of Police Scotland in April 2013, the research by Dr Kath Murray of Edinburgh University found, but the latest figures show that people in Scotland are still four times more likely to...

Professor Fergus McNeill gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament

26th May 2015

Tomorrow at Holyrood, Professor Fergus McNeill (University of Glasgow) of the SCCJR will give oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee about the Prisoners (Control of Release) (Scotland) Bill. Professor McNeill previously provided written evidence on this bill, which can be found here and here. The Justice Committee will next meet to consider the bill on June 2.

Artist in Residence

15th November 2012

Working Spaces, Punishing Spaces: The Meaning and Construction of Place through Criminological Research Photographer Jenny Wicks has completed a nine month residency studying the work of criminologists at The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow University. The residency has resulted in an interactive multi-media installation incorporating audio, fine art photography and object...

‘The Road from Crime Film Launch’

15th November 2012

About 300 people from across the criminal justice sector attended the launch of ‘The Road from Crime’ on 18th June 2012. The film is the product of an ESRC funded knowledge exchange project involving Fergus McNeill (SCCJR, University of Glasgow), Steve Farrall (University of Sheffield), Claire Lightowler (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services) and Shadd Maruna (Queen’s...

Community Policing Project

1st November 2012

Community Policing Project Simon Mackenzie (SCCJR) and Alistair Henry (SIPR) have been awarded an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship. The project involves academic criminologists working with the City of Edinburgh community police and their senior officers to identify and develop future directions for community policing in Scotland. The programme consists of a series of workshops, the results of...

Scottish Community Safety Network

1st November 2012

Scottish Community Safety Network SCCJR works with the Scottish Community Safety Network to ensure that up to date thinking and evidence on crime and justice issues is shared with network members and that the work of our academics is informed by the concerns and experiences of network members.

Ministry of Justice – Summary of Review on Quality in Probation Supervision now published

12th March 2012

The review looked at quality in relation to probation supervision in different countries, looking at how it is seen by both supervisors and service users. Please click to access Report...