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Alistair is a Professor of Criminology & Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He teaches and researches issues of youth violence, street culture, and organised crime, with a particular interest in the global gang phenomenon.
In his research he often draws on ethnographic, creative and interdisciplinary ways of working and is currently leading a study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), investigating the meaning and utility of ‘public health’ approaches to violence reduction in Scotland and England. Alistair is the author of two books: the first, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (OUP, 2015) was shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award and co-awarded the British Society of Criminology Book Prize.
Alistair was Director of SCCJR between Jan 2020 and Jan 2023.
Research interests: young people and youth ‘gangs’; youth violence and youth justice; cultural criminology and sociology of risk-taking; critical and theoretical criminology; criminology and social theory; children’s geographies; youth and social change; ethnography and participatory action-research.
Weaver, B. and Fraser, A. (2021) The social dynamics of group offending. Theoretical Criminology. Online first. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13624806211030459
Fraser, A. and Schliehe, A. (2021) The Carceral City: Confinement and order in Hong Kong’s forbidden enclave. British Journal of Criminology 61(3): 587-606. https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/61/3/587/6063469?login=true
Fraser, A. and Clarke, A. (2021) Damaged hardmen: Organised crime and the half-life of deindustrialisation. British Journal of Sociology online first. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12828
Fraser, A. and Schliehe, A. (2021) The Carceral City: Confinement and order in Hong Kong’s forbidden enclave. British Journal of Criminology 61(3): 587-606. https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/61/3/587/6063469?login=true
Fraser, A. and Clarke, A. (2021) Damaged hardmen: Organised crime and the half-life of deindustrialisation. British Journal of Sociology online first. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12828
Institution:
University of Glasgow
Address:
SCCJR
Ivy Lodge
63 Gibson Street
Glasgow
G12 8LR
Globalisation, Harm and Social Justice
Crimes of the Powerful: organised, white collar and state crime
Young People and Youth Justice
