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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.

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.

Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives (2022)
Journal Article
Butler, S., Maglione, G., & Buchan, J. (2024). Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 24(1), 269-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221104229

While in some European and extra-European countries the incorporation of restorative justice into policy frameworks is a dated and widely studied phenomenon, in others it is a more recent and scarcely researched process. The Scottish Government is ma... Read More about Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives.

The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study (2020)
Journal Article
Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2022). The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 617-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09470-3

This article presents the results of the first empirical qualitative research on the provision of restorative justice (RJ) in Scotland, based on interviews with 14 practitioners. In Scotland, RJ has attracted the attention of penal reformers and prac... Read More about The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study.

The Struggle is Real: Theorising Community Justice Restructuring Agonistically (2020)
Journal Article
Buchan, J. (2020). The Struggle is Real: Theorising Community Justice Restructuring Agonistically. European Journal of Probation, 12(2), 73-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220320927353

This article is a novel use of the ‘agonistic framework’ – a theory of penal change developed in the US, which emphasises the role of hidden conflict – to analyse recent organisational reforms to probation in Scotland. It begins by drawing on recent... Read More about The Struggle is Real: Theorising Community Justice Restructuring Agonistically.

Compromise, Partnership, Control: Community Justice Authorities In Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., & Morrison, K. (2020). Compromise, Partnership, Control: Community Justice Authorities In Scotland. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(2), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818814903

Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) were heralded on their inception as modernising Scotland’s community justice system and resolving longstanding tensions between central and local government over community justice control, by encouraging partnersh... Read More about Compromise, Partnership, Control: Community Justice Authorities In Scotland.