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Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice in Scotland

Lesley McAra
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 4, pp 481-504
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A survey of Scotland's criminal justice institutions can be found in this article, with a focus on the history and politics of criminal justice in the UK and Ireland, and a survey of crime and punishment over the past 40 years.
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This survey of Scotland reviews: core Scottish criminal justice institutions; statistical trends in crime and punishment over the past 40 years; the history and politics of Scottish criminal justic...

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Youth crime and justice: Key messages from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime

TL;DR: Based on findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, the authors challenges the evidence base which policy-makers have drawn on to justify the evolving models of youth transition and crime.
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Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: penal adaptation and misadaptation

TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts is presented, which explores the nature of the practice of social inquiry and explores the extent to which this practice is being reconfigured in line with the recent accounts of penal transformation.
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Theoretical advances and problems in the sociology of punishment

David Garland
- 01 Jan 2018 - 
TL;DR: The last twenty years have seen a remarkable increase in the extent and range of “punishment and society” scholarship as mentioned in this paper, together with this quantitative expansion, there have also been important qual...
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Illusions Of Difference: Comparative Youth Justice in the Devolved United Kingdom

TL;DR: This paper explored the extent of differential justice in the United Kingdom, particularly as it is expressed in the myriad action plans, criminal justice reviews, frameworks for action, delivery plans and offending strategies that have surfaced since 1998.
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A desistance paradigm for offender management

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that a different but equally relevant form of empirical evidence, derived from desistance studies, suggests a need to re-evaluate these earlier paradigms for probation practice.
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Women's Violence to Men in Intimate Relationships Working on a Puzzle

TL;DR: Dobash et al. as discussed by the authors conducted interviews with 95 couples in which men and women reported separately upon their own violence and upon that of their partner, and the findings suggest that intimate partner violence is primarily an asymmetrical problem of men's violence to women and women's violence does not equate to men's in terms of frequency, severity, consequences and the victim's sense of safety and well-being.
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Youth Justice? The Impact of System Contact on Patterns of Desistance from Offending

TL;DR: The authors assesses the effectiveness of the Scottish model of youth justice in the context of a growing body of international research that is challenging the ''evidence base'' of policy in many countries.
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Women's Imprisonment: A Study in Social Control

TL;DR: In this paper, the author explores the meanings of women's imprisonment and, in particular, the wider meanings of the'moment' of women in prison, using interviews with sheriffs, policemen, and social workers, as well as observation in the prisons, the courts and the lodging-houses.