Our Work

The Centre produces high quality, internationally recognised research in relation to crime and criminal justice.

Colleagues at SCCJR have a proven track record in winning research income that supports cutting edge studies. A number of our publications contribute to REF submissions and overall, we aim to develop international networks to support our research ambitions.

Collaboration is key in our work and that’s why we engage widely with communities, policy makers and the public to build just societies.

In order to nurture the research talent and capacity there is across Scotland, we provide a vibrant and supportive research environment for our Staff, Postgraduate (PGR) and Early Career Researchers (ECR) with funding grants, networking opportunities and mentorship schemes such as the Scottish Justice Fellowship.

Publications

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April 2022

Criminal Grades? Contract cheating and student exploitation in Higher Education

Recent reports in the UK media highlight that students in higher education are increasingly outsourcing their assignments to third-party service […]

March 2022

Prisons, Prison Officers and Prisoners’ Families – Full Report

The research aimed to understand the translation of the rhetoric around the importance of families of prisoners and their role, […]

March 2022

Prisons, Prison Officers and Prisoners’ Families – Briefing Paper

The current Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Family Strategy was published in 2017 and runs until 2022. During the four years […]

January 2022

Mapping Drug Use, Interventions and Treatment Needs in Scottish Prisons: A literature review

This Literature Review was written by Claire Toomey and Maria Fotopoulou, University of Stirling and Sarah Armstrong, University of Glasgow […]

December 2021

Delays in Trials: the implications for victim-survivors of rape and serious sexual assault: an update

In contrast to other types of crime recorded by the police in Scotland, the numbers of sexual crimes have been […]

November 2021

SCCJR Bulletin: November 2021

The SCCJR Bulletin features the latest news from staff and students at the Centre. Please click on this link for […]

October 2021

FAI Report Analysis

This document includes the R code used to analyse the data in the statistical briefing ‘Nothing to See Here?’. Not […]

October 2021

Fact Sheet: 15 years of FAI determinations for deaths in custody

As part of the Nothing to See Here? project this fact sheet is a summary of statistics based on analysis […]

Projects

March 2022

Hidden voices: how women convicted of killing their intimate partners experience the Scottish criminal justice system

Dr Susan Batchelor and Dr Rachel McPherson (University of Glasgow) have received funding from the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG […]

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October 2021

Women working to support women in the welfare sphere: psychosocial challenges

This project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, will investigate the psychosocial wellbeing and personal welfare of women workers in organisations […]

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October 2021

Nothing to See Here? 15 years of FAI determinations for deaths in custody

A research team based at the University of Glasgow has investigated 196 Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAI) that were held as […]

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September 2021

Diversifying Justice: Revealing viable pathways for South Asian women

Co-PIs: Dr Nughmana Mirza and Dr Lisa Bradley who are supported by Nicola Dickson, research assistant. Summary: Very little is […]

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