Research Centre
Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Director Child Wellbeing & Protection, Social Work
Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Research Fellow, Social Work
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences
PhD Researcher, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Tutor, Social Work
Lecturer in Law, Law
PhD Researcher, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Honorary Lecturer, Education
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Associate Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Lecturer in Child & Family Law, Law
Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Lecturer in Social Statistics&Demography, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Emeritus Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Policy Document
Justice That Works: Report of the Scottish Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission
Evans M, Graham H, Smith L, Jamieson C, Mackie D, Dyer C & Penal Policy Commission Sa (2026) Justice That Works: Report of the Scottish Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. Edinburgh, Scotland.: The Scottish Government. https://www.gov.scot/publications/justice-works-report-scottish-sentencing-penal-policy-commission/documents/
Book Chapter
On Phil Collins’s (2020) Bring Down the Walls
Crockett Thomas P (2026) On Phil Collins’s (2020) Bring Down the Walls. In: Sound and Detention: Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and-detention-9798765113981/
Book Chapter
Crockett Thomas P (2025) Imagining No Prisons. In: The Routledge Handbook on Prisons. 3rd ed. London: Routledge.
Article
Kjellgren R, Savinc J, Dougall N, Kurdi A, Leyland A, Tweed E, Watson J, Hunt K & Connell C (2025) Access to services for mental ill-health and substance use among people released from prison in Scotland (RELEASE): Retrospective observational cohort study protocol. International Journal of Population Data Science, 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i1.2971
Article
Making lives grievable: Crime, culture and remembering the accused witches of Scotland
Malloch M (2025) Making lives grievable: Crime, culture and remembering the accused witches of Scotland. Crime, Media, Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590251359143
Research Report
Inverness and Cromarty Green Freeport: Assessing crime and security risks
Sheridan A, Atkinson C, Hamilton-Smith N, Kjellgren R, McVie S & Soliman F (2025) Inverness and Cromarty Green Freeport: Assessing crime and security risks. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/publication/inverness-and-cromarty-green-freeport-assessing-crime-and-security-risks/'
Policy Document
Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission: Describing the Challenge
Graham H, Evans M, Smith L, Jamieson C, Mackie D, Dyer C & Penal Policy Commission Sa (2025) Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission: Describing the Challenge. Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. Edinburgh, Scotland.: The Scottish Government. https://www.gov.scot/publications/sentencing-penal-policy-commission-describing-challenge/documents/
Other
Social Networks Research Comic
Connell C, Griffiths, Torrance, Greenhalgh & Dumbrell (2025) Social Networks Research Comic.
Book Chapter
Interviews with digital objects
Adams C & Thompson TL (2025) Interviews with digital objects. In: Handbook on digital criminology. DeGruyter, pp. 305-314. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111062037/html
Book Chapter
Abolition Science Fiction (2022)
Crockett Thomas P (2024) Abolition Science Fiction (2022). In: Transdisciplinary Engagements with Speculative/Science Fiction. London: Bloomsbury.
Policy Document
Graham H, Armstrong S, McNeill F, Schinkel M, Jardine C, Weaver B & Morrison K (2024) Written evidence submission on early release of prisoners and the prison population for the Scottish Parliament Criminal Justice Committee - November (2024). Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR). Edinburgh. https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-criminal-justice-committee/meetings/2024/criminal-justice-committee-13-november-2024
Book Chapter
Your feet may change size: murder mystery, motherhood, and the anti-carceral imagination
Crockett Thomas P (2024) Your feet may change size: murder mystery, motherhood, and the anti-carceral imagination. In: Walking: A sociological field guide. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Article
Connell C, Birken M, Carver H, Brown T & Greenhalgh J (2023) Effectiveness of interventions to improve employment for people released from prison: systematic review and meta-analysis. Health and Justice, 11, Art. No.: 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00217-w
Article
Children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Spies First, Children Second
Arthur R & Kirk T (2023) Children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Spies First, Children Second. Youth Justice, 23 (3), pp. 372-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254231154160
Website Content
Talking Teaching with Criminologists
(2023) Talking Teaching with Criminologists. BSC LTN Talking Teaching with Criminologists (1) [Podcast] 17.11.2023. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talkteachcrim/episodes/Talking-Teaching-with-Criminologists---Prof-Marty-Chamberlain-e2c2mke
Article
Connell C, Kjellgren R & Savinc J (2023) Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8 (2). https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2314
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Swept under the Table? The challenges of climate change in ‘high crime’ informal settlements
Hamilton-Smith N (2023) Swept under the Table? The challenges of climate change in ‘high crime’ informal settlements. European Society of Criminology, Florence, 06.09.2023-09.09.2023.
Research Report
Highland Custody Link Worker Project – Independent Support for Evaluation
Graham H, Hamilton-Smith N & Kjellgren R (2023) Highland Custody Link Worker Project – Independent Support for Evaluation. Highland Third Sector Interface. Stirling.
Book Chapter
Turning Over a New Leaf: Desistance Research for a New Generation
Weaver B, Graham H & Maruna S (2023) Turning Over a New Leaf: Desistance Research for a New Generation. In: Liebling A, Maruna S & McAra L (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 7th edition ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 144-163. https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-criminology-9780198860914?q=social%20research%20methods&cc=gb&lang=en&subjectcode1=4943102%7CLAW00000&view=Grid
Book Chapter
Therapeutic or Therapunitive? Conceptualising Community Custody in Scotland
Malloch M & Armstrong LM (2023) Therapeutic or Therapunitive? Conceptualising Community Custody in Scotland. In: Chamberlen A & Bandyopadhyay M (eds.) Geographies of Gendered Punishment: Women’s Imprisonment in Global Context. 1 ed. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031612763#about-this-book
Penal Supervision in Comparative Context
PI: Dr Hannah Graham
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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Mortality patterns among people released from prison: Identifying priority intervention points to prevent avoidable deaths and reduce health inequalities
PI: Dr Catriona Connell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Help-seeking for substance use and mental health challenges among justice-involved people in Scottish community contexts: An analysis of the influence of social networks
PI: Dr Catriona Connell
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Understanding mental health and substance use service utilisation by people released from prison: A mixed-methods study
PI: Dr Catriona Connell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Developing the evidence base for social care responses to children / families affected by domestic abuse
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Should I stay or should I go: sense of belonging and intentions to stay among young, newcomers to Armenia
PI: Dr Sarah Wilson
Funded by: The British Academy
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'It's our anxiety that keeps them locked up'. Protection for whom? Responding to the needs of 'at risk' young women in Scotland.
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Critically Exploring Biometric AI Futures
PI: Dr Diana Miranda
Funded by: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Water and Fire: Understanding and reducing risk with 15 “Best Bets” for enhancing capacity for transformative adaptation with vulnerable township residents on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Interventions to improve prosocial occupational participation for people released from prison: A systematic review
PI: Dr Catriona Connell
Funded by: Royal College of Occupational Therapists
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Emerging Technologies in Policing
PI: Dr Niall Hamilton-Smith
Funded by: Scottish Institute for Policing Research
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Supporting separated migrant children to thrive during COVID-19
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Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Choice, Constraint and Conditional Citizenship: analysing migrant homelessness within 'crimmigration' systems
PI: Dr Regina Serpa
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Drugs Research Network Scotland (Host)
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: Scottish Funding Council
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The experiences of victims in the criminal justice system: a qualitative research project
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
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Scottish Government - Child Trafficking
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Funded by: Scottish Government
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