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Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
Ivy Lodge
63 Gibson Street
Glasgow
G12 8LR
June 2023
New research on probation and justice social work supervision in five nations Professor Nicola Carr (University of Nottingham) and colleagues, […]
May 2023
SPAROW – Scottish Prisons Assessment and Review of Outcomes for Women – is an evaluation of the early impact and […]
March 2023
Dr Oona Brooks-Hay (PI) and Professor Michele Burman (Co-I) (University of Glasgow) have been awarded funding from the Scottish Courts […]
January 2023
This project aims to examine the processes of child contact proceedings, particularly child welfare hearings, and their interaction with criminal […]
14th February 2022
A detailed account of the youth justice system in Scotland is provided here, including details of the Children’s Hearing System, interventions to prevent offending and divert young people from prosecution.
4th August 2019
As well as providing a definition of crime, this briefing explores how it is decided which human behaviours should be considered a ‘crime’ and which should not.
4th February 2023
There is no one ‘cause’ of crime. In fact, crime is a highly complex phenomenon and criminologists, policy makers, law-makers and others are still trying to understand it. This briefing provides an overview of some of the key criminological theories which aim to explain the causes of crime. See Part 2 for more information.
12th November 2020
Reuben's presentation examines the afterlife of mass incarceration, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of American Democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago, Detroit and New York—he explores what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out.
30th October 2020
In this seminar Dr Canning focuses on border harms as a way to disaggregate the two perspectives. Drawing on empirical research with women seeking asylum in Northern Europe, as well interviews with lawyers, barristers and psychologists, this paper outlines why harm matters as much as 'crime' in the context of bordering.
4th December 2020
Revisiting the conclusion in Counter-Colonial Criminology, the papyrus suggests that since power is more of a cause of crime than poverty, activist intellectuals in Africa and worldwide should advance the struggles to deepen the decolonization of power relations in order to end the criminal abuse of power by the genocidal states imposed on Africa by European colonizers .
A resource for Modern Studies Students studying crime and law and criminology. You can download PowerPoints and Teacher’s Notes for National 5 and Advanced Higher levels which take you through some suggested tasks. Feel free to adapt these to suit your own lessons.
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Just Humans Episode 4
We used to say look at the stars to feel how small you are, today we need just look at our phones. As we type into them the network pulses and our secrets are hoarded by the algorithm. We must ask, are we human or are we data?
Just Humans Episode 3
Some of us have started to return to the office and in doing so we are relearning how to connect with our colleagues and professional networks.
Just Humans Episode 2
SCCJR besties Lisa and Nughmana first met when doing their PhD's at the University of Glasgow and soon found they had a lot in common; their research interests, having busy home lives with young kids, wanting to do academia differently and a shared love of chatting over cake and coffee.
Just Humans Episode 1
Our colleague, or should that be 'sister' of SCCJR, Dr Cara Jardine, Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, joins our host Ali Fraser to help kick off Season 2 of the Just Humans podcast.
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