Research Centre
Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Director Child Wellbeing & Protection, Social Work
Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
PhD Researcher, Social Work
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences
PhD Researcher, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Tutor with Assessment & Student Feedback, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
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
Presentation / Talk
Graham H & Smith L (2026) Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission Workshop: An Interactive Discussion Led by Dr Hannah Graham and Lynsey Smith on Their Role as Commissioners. Social Work Scotland Justice Conference, Glasgow, 03.06.2026-03.06.2026.
Keynote
Penal Supervision in Comparative Context: 5 Nations Research
Graham H (2026) Penal Supervision in Comparative Context: 5 Nations Research. Social Work Scotland Justice Conference, Glasgow, 03.06.2026-03.06.2026.
Article
Making Light of Imprisonment: Humour, connection and resistance
McNeill F, Cathcart Frödén L, Crockett Thomas P, Escobar O, Urie A & Collinson Scott J (2026) Making Light of Imprisonment: Humour, connection and resistance. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261455072
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/
Presentation / Talk
Community Disposals and Rehabilitation
Graham H (2025) Community Disposals and Rehabilitation. Judicial Institute for Scotland - Criminal Sentencing and Community Disposals Shrieval Training, Judicial Institute for Scotland, Old Parliament House, Edinburgh, 25.11.2025-25.11.2025.
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.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Fotopoulou M & Grant M (2025) A continuum of violence? An exploration of the lived experience of the UK asylum system through the voices of children and young people who have experienced trafficking and professionals’ that support them. Annual conference of the Migration and Mobilities Research Network (MMRN), Edinburgh, 19.06.2025-19.06.2025.
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
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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Penal Supervision in Comparative Context
PI: Dr Hannah Graham
Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust
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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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