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Neil was educated at the University of Edinburgh (MA 1976, PhD 1983) and has worked at the universities of Edinburgh, Dundee and Victoria University, New Zealand.  He was appointed as a lecturer  in the Law School at Strathclyde in 1990, became a  Professor in 2001, and was Dean of the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences from 2005-2009.

His main research interest is in the field of sentencing and punishment. He is a founder and co-Director of the Centre for  Sentencing Research at the University of Strathclyde and a leading member of the team which developed the Sentencing Information System for the High Court  in Scotland. He served on the Sentencing Commission for Scotland from 2003-2006 and is currently a member of the National Advisory Body for Offender Management.

Keywords: Sentencing,  punishment

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n.hutton@strath.ac.uk

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University of Strathclyde

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Law School
University of Strathclyde
Lord Hope Building
141 St James Road
Glasgow
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2009

Street-Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process

This article builds on the work of Michael Lipsky and develops an argument about the significance of interprofessional working for […]

2009

Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: Penal adaptation and misadaptation

This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts. It […]

2009

Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration

This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts. It […]

2008

Shadow writing and participant observation: A study of criminal justice social work around sentencing’

The study of decision-making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for […]

2008

Shadow Writing and Participant Observation: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Work Around Sentencing

The study of decision-making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for […]

2006

The End of an Era? Youth Justice in Scotland

Scotland is a small jurisdiction, yet it has a distinctive criminal justice system with unique institutional arrangements and certain political […]

18th September 2007

Social Enquiry and Sentencing in the Sheriff Courts

This ESRC funded research project was a collaboration led by Simon Halliday, Neil Hutton and Cyrus Tata at the University […]

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