Current SCCJR News
Susan McVie is awarded Professor of Quantitative Criminology
We are delighted to announce that SCCJR’s Susan McVie has been awarded a personal chair - Professor of Quantitative Criminology - from Edinburgh University's School of Law, as of August 2010.
As well as her role as leader of SCCJR’s CJ-Quest research network, Susan is also the Research Director of AQMeN, and a Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime .....
Having an Impact on Probation and Prisons
We are delighted to announce that throughout the remainder of 2010 Fergus McNeill will be acting as an academic adviser to the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in relation to the implementation of the EU Framework Decision on the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions.
Additionally, from 2010-2011 Fergus will be a member of the Prison Review.....
Football Banning Orders: Evaluating their operation
SCCJR is leading a team evaluating Football Banning Orders in Scotland. The research has been commissioned by the Scottish Government and will be conducted between June and December 2010.
The purpose of the evaluation is to consider the operation of the football banning order legislation to date and make recommendations to improve its use and effectiveness. The project is being.....
Call for Papers — Criminalization Conference (University of Stirling, 7-9 September 2011)
It is often said that contemporary liberal democracies such as Britain and the USA face a crisis of over-criminalization: too much conduct is criminalized, too hastily, without adequate thought about the aims it should serve. The result is a disorganized, unprincipled criminal law, which subjects too many people to the threat of arrest and punishment. But normative theorists of criminal law, who.....
Anti-Social Behaviour Book runner up in the British Society of Criminology Book Prize
SCCJR's Andrew Millie was runner up in the British Society of Criminology's Annual Book Prize for his book "Anti-Social Behaviour" published by Open University Press (2009). For further information about the work click here.
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Watch video clip about counterfeiting and intellectual propery crime research
SCCJR's Simon Mackenzie talks about his work in this research soundbite, click here to watch. In it he discusses that corporate negative externalities occur when corporations place some of the costs of their profit-seeking activity onto society. The research he discusses suggests that the current global problem of intellectual property crime is such an externality, and that it has not been r.....
SCCJR update for July out now
This month the SCCJR update contains information about publications on community payback orders, desistance and offender management research, reconviction among drug court participants, youth crime and youth justice. It also includes links to video and audio clips by Fergus McNeill and Shadd Maruna. To subscribe to our newsletter click here......
Community Payback Report available
The Scottish Consortium on Crime and Criminal Justice and the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research held a seminar in the Thistle Hotel, Glasgow on Tuesday 23rd February 2010 to discuss the community payback order which has been proposed by the Scottish Government in the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill. The purpose of the seminar was to clarify t.....
Michele Burman article wins prize
SCCJR's Michele Burman’s article entitled “Evidencing Sexual Assault: Women in the Witness Box” has won the Probation Journal Best Article Prize for 2009. This was “a unanimous decision by the editorial board who commented on the impressive depth and quality of the research which underpinned the work.” The announcement of the prize c.....
SCCJRs 4th annual lecture: What are Psychopaths for? is now available to watch on-line
Shadd Maruna delivered the SCCJR lecture in Edinburgh in June 2010. The lecture is available here to watch. If you want to join a discussion about the lecture please visit our facebook page discussion board here......
