Wishing everyone a safe journey to Warsaw, Poland this week for #Eurocrim2026
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research
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The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding of justice. https://linktr.ee/sccjr
HYBRID EVENT - Strathclyde Uni / Zoom How should children learn about a parent's imprisonment? Join us and Kylie Lui, University of Hong Kong, who will talk about disclosure, trust, stigma and family ties. Wed 7 October 12:30-2pm UK time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
Children’s autonomy in parental incarceration disclosure (HYBRID event)
How should children learn about a parent’s imprisonment? Insights from Hong Kong on disclosure, trust, stigma and family ties.
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Most secondary school pupils in Scotland are back at school this week.🏫 If you are teaching or learning Modern Studies you need to check out our Learning Resources page! ✏️https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/resources/learning-resources/
SCCJR's Kirstin Anderson will be at RSE's Curious festival of knowledge in September to ask, 'What's art got to do with it? Creativity in Scotland's prisons.' The workshop looks at Scotland’s longest running prisoner-made magazine, STIR. 👉 rse.org.uk/event/whats-... @kir-anderson.bsky.social
📣 Call for information: Has anything changed since January when researchers at Glasgow Uni published survey findings that suggested 81% of women musicians in the Scottish folk music scene have been sexually assaulted or harassed? The team want to hear from you! www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/%f...
For anyone interested in HMP Barlinnie prison being listed as a Category A Building, the Scottish Government's Planning and Environmental Appeals Division's (DPEA) is having a hearing tomorrow which you can watch livestream. Tues 7th July, 10am. www.youtube.com/live/dewYgEk...
BDA-011-2027 - HMP Barlinnie - Hearing
YouTube video by DPEA
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Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's Justice Futures Seminar with Phil Crockett Thomas. A recording is now available on SCCJR's YouTube channel youtu.be/_6zBnE8jcSA
Abolitionist Imaginations: Fictioning More Just Futures
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This is happening TODAY 😃 Join us at 4pm this afternoon for this online talk. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1991465278...
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research@thesccjr.bsky.social · 3mo agoDr Ana Vigna will present a paper on how police and civilian prison officers understand authority, exercise power, and negotiate prison order in Uruguay. Join us online Wed 24 June, 4pm (UK time). 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/change-res...
❗REMINDER ❗ This online event takes place on Tuesday 23 (next week). Phil Crockett Thomas @stirunicriminology.bsky.social will explore utopian temporalities and abolitionist world-building in her presentation. Just bring your lunch and your curiosity and we will see you there!
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research@thesccjr.bsky.social · 4mo ago📍@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social will explore themes from her article 'Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination' at our next Justice Futures Seminar. Tues 23 June, 12-1pm, Online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990402334...
Dr Ana Vigna will present a paper on how police and civilian prison officers understand authority, exercise power, and negotiate prison order in Uruguay. Join us online Wed 24 June, 4pm (UK time). 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/change-res...
Change, Resistance and Convergence throughout Uruguay's Prison Reform.
This talk examines how police and civilian prison officers understand authority, exercise power and negotiate prison order.
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We were so happy to host Dr Xiaoye Zhang, De Montfort University, last week who gave a presentation on 'The Rule of Wonder: Prison Theatre and the Governance of Participation in China.' 📺You can watch the presentation on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/uJHss_AKosU?...
The Rule of Wonder: Prison Theatre and the Governance of Participation in China
YouTube video by The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
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Professor Sarah Armstrong @glasgow.ac.uk will be joining the SASO Discussion Panel tomorrow evening in Glasgow for this event on 'Investigating Deaths in Custody: Is Change Needed?' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
Investigating Deaths in Custody: Is Change Needed? - SASO Panel Discussion
Hear from a panel led by Sheriff Principal Ian Abercrombie KC, author of the Independent Review.
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📍@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social will explore themes from her article 'Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination' at our next Justice Futures Seminar. Tues 23 June, 12-1pm, Online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990402334...
SCCJR Justice Future Seminar Series
Phil Crockett Thomas will give a presentation on 'Abolitionist Imaginations: Fictioning More Just Futures'.
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🗳️ Exploring Low Turnout of Enfranchised Prisoners in Spain. ❗Join us online - Tues 16 June, 12-1pm UK time. 🗣️Manuel Maroto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain and chaired by @tripkovicmilena.bsky.social 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990385168619?aff=oddtdtcreator
Exploring Low Turnout of Enfranchised Prisoners in Spain
This talk explores the bureaucratic and ideological inertia that has persisted in discouraging prisoner voting in Spain over the years.
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🎭The Rule of Wonder: Prison Theatre and the Governance of Participation in China with Dr Xiaoye Zhang. Wed 27 May, 4pm UK time, Online. 👉 Register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989813576...
🟡🟠 Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social will be leading our next Justice Futures Seminar on 26 May, 12-1pm online. 🗣️'Challenging anti-carceral feminism: justice perspectives of survivors of tech-facilitated violence against women and girls.' 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1988752231...
Police and Deaths in Scotland: Prevention, Investigation, Transparency - Tues 26 May, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/police-and... @the-sipr.bsky.social
‘Police and Deaths in Scotland: Prevention, Investigation, Transparency’
A half-day workshop aimed at exploring the role of the police in investigating deaths in custody in Scotland.
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On 5 May, Prof Javier Auyero of UT Austin will be in Glasgow to present findings from his latest book, Dark Governance: Illegal Organisations and State Power. Please join us for this joint event of GLARN and IPED. 16:00 - 5 May 2026 Room 916, 42 Bute Gardens Followed by a drinks reception
🔹While anti-carceral feminism is increasingly dominant, this presentation from Clare McGlynn builds on an emerging body of work contesting its central premises. Tues 26 May, online, 12-1pm ▶️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1988752231...
Boundaries, Bodies, and Control: Women’s Confinement Across History - 11 June, @glasgow.ac.uk This symposium will bring together scholars, practitioners, archivists and artists to explore the connected histories of women’s incarceration. 🧡 SCCJR Knowledge Exchange Fund. bit.ly/4t4uqld
Boundaries, Bodies, and Control: Women’s Confinement Across History
An day of interdisciplinary roundtables, focusing on women's confinement across time, and the challenges of undertaking this research
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🗣️Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation was developed with former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children to support truth-telling, learning, and responsibility in the aftermath of systemic and institutional harm. 7 May, University of Edinburgh. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR) | School of Social and Political Science
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📆There's still time to register for next week's Justice Futures seminar with Anastasia Chamberlen & Henrique Carvalho who will present the main themes of their co-authored book, Questioning Punishment. 28 April, 12-1pm, Online. 📍https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986199379812?aff=oddtdtcreator
🎤SCCJR has launch a new PhD podcast series called ‘Just Ask…’ Listen now! www.sccjr.ac.uk/project/sccj... 👏Thank you to @margueritesch.bsky.social @andy8chi.bsky.social @stevekirkwood.bsky.social for their support. Hosts @justrachelle.bsky.social & @karynmabon.bsky.social
🟠 Prison Violence and the Search for Recognition and Respect with @kategooch.bsky.social Join us for this online workshop on Wed 29 April, 4pm UK time. 🔶 Register now, all welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1987318805...
🎬There's still time to register for next week's screening of Prison in Twelve Landscapes. 📍Tues 7 April, 2-5pm, Edinburgh. Get your tickets now! 🎫 www.eventbrite.com/e/prison-in-...
“Prison in Twelve Landscapes” – Screening and Panel Discussion
Prison in Twelve Landscapes: film + panel examining how incarceration affects communities, workplaces, and daily life across the U.S.
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📺You can watch Carole Berrih's presentation on 'Low-Tech Intelligence and the Government of Prisons in Niger' on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/HEWJ7otyqFo?...
Low-Tech Intelligence and the Government of Prisons in Niger
YouTube video by The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
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📢 Fully Funded Collaborative PhD Opportunity with @uofgsocsci.bsky.social and @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social, based in @uofgsociology.bsky.social and @thesccjr.bsky.social ‘Our Safety, Our Work, Our Views: Sex workers’ experiences of violence, regulation and resistance in Scotland’ 🔗 lnkd.in/e797Wsvf
I’m excited to deliver this talk next week! Book to join us and think together about #Feminist #Cities for all.
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research@thesccjr.bsky.social · 6mo ago👋Our next Justice Futures seminar is on Tues 24th at 12 noon (UK time). Online. The talk examines the lived experiences of feminist, Black, and LGBTQIA+ human rights defenders in Brazil as they navigate routine violence and shrinking democratic space. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sccjr-just...
🎬 “Prison in Twelve Landscapes” – Screening and Panel Discussion in Edinburgh on 7 April, 2pm. SCCJR is the proud co-sponsor of this event. Get your tickets now to avoid disappointment. 🎫 www.eventbrite.com/e/prison-in-...
