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Creating a people-centred view of risk and restorative justice (2024)
Journal Article
Shapland, J., Buchan, J., Kirkwood, S., & Zinsstag, E. (2024). Creating a people-centred view of risk and restorative justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 24(5), 1047-1068. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958241269018

We live in a risky and risk-centred world, in which we are concerned about the potential negative impact of interaction with other people. This has promoted actuarial, group-based ideas of risk assessment in relation to criminal justice. Different pa... Read More about Creating a people-centred view of risk and restorative justice.

Covid-19, Communities and Policing: Service Abstraction and the Persistence of Place (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchan, J., Wooff, A., & Horgan, S. (2024, July). Covid-19, Communities and Policing: Service Abstraction and the Persistence of Place. Presented at British Society of Criminology Conference 2024, Glasgow, UK

This paper presents qualitative data from two projects on policing and local partnership working in rural Scotland, with fieldwork carried out in 2021-2.

We understand this through an interdisciplinary synthesis of theoretical concepts - ontologic... Read More about Covid-19, Communities and Policing: Service Abstraction and the Persistence of Place.

Justice Social Work and the National Care Service (2023)
Digital Artefact
Buchan, J. (2023). Justice Social Work and the National Care Service. [Blog post]

Blog piece for SCCJR on the potential implications of the National Care Service reforms for Justice Social Work.

Progressive penality as performance (2023)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., & McNeill, F. (2023). Progressive penality as performance. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(3), 325-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12516

Scotland's prison population remains stubbornly high despite reforms to sentencing and community penalties (most recently in 2016). Seeking to advance the debate on punishment in Scotland, we use empirical data to support a novel theoretical synthesi... Read More about Progressive penality as performance.