Projects
RCUK (ESRC, AHRC, ESPRC) Projects about Law, Policy and Practice
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 of Strathclyde. The study used ethnographic methods to study the production of social enquiry (or pre-sentence) reports and their use by sentencers. A summary report of the project’s findings can be found in project documents, along with some related recent...