Criminal & Social JusticeNews & events

The School of Social Work and Social Policy is delighted to welcome Dr Kirsty Deacon who joins us as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

The Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) and Scottish Throughcare and After Care Forum (Staf) have launched a new project: Youth Justice Voice Participation Project

Beth Weaver and colleagues from the Coproducing Justice: International Social Economy Network have published a knowledge exchange report on their Scottish Universities Insight Institute funded programme of knowledge exchange, of the same title

Jo Bailey-Noblett has published an article with the Howard League ECAN Network based on her ethnographic doctoral research studies on ‘Residential Wing Regimes: An Impediment to Rehabilitation of Prisoners?’

CYCJ has recently published the results of its most recent stakeholder survey, which focused on how parents and carers experience their child’s contact with the justice system.

Professor Laura Piacentini along with colleagues at the Universities of Stirling, Dundee, and the Maria and Joao Alexio Institute in Rio de Janeiro has won a research grant award

Cara Jardine was recently awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career fellowship

Beth Weaver's recent article has been published

A new book by Sue Read, Sotirios Santatzoglou, and Anthony Wrigley has just been published by Routledge on “Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System”.

Funding awarded by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute

The 'Developing Confident Life Stories' programme explores the impact of bereavement on young people aged 12–18 years, supporting them to construct and represent their bereavement stories through the medium of comics, through a series of creative workshops.

Sally Paul and Nina Vaswani lead on The Bereavement Research and Innovation Group which brings together researchers from across the University of Strathclyde with a research interest in this theme.

Laura Piacentini has been appointed as an External Examiner to the University Of Bath's first ever Under-graduate degree in Criminology launching in 2019.