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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.

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.

Restorative Justice: Another Way of Doing Justice in Scotland? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchan, J. (2022, March). Restorative Justice: Another Way of Doing Justice in Scotland?. Presented at Morningside Justice and Peace, Edinburgh [Online]

In this invited talk for Morningside Justice and Peace, I introduce the concept of restorative justice, discuss its history and some critical issues in the field and then report on findings from two pieces of Edinburgh Napier research looking at rest... Read More about Restorative Justice: Another Way of Doing Justice in Scotland?.

The Criminal Justice System in Scotland (2021)
Book Chapter
Morrison, K., Buchan, J., & Wooff, A. (2021). The Criminal Justice System in Scotland. In S. Case, P. Johnson, D. Manlow, R. Smith, & K. Williams (Eds.), The Oxford Textbook on Criminology. (2nd). Oxford University Press

Morrison, K., Buchan, J., & Wooff, A. (2021). The Criminal Justice System in Scotland. In The Oxford Textbook on Criminology. (2nd). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://learninglink.oup.com/access/case2e-student-resources#tag_all-c... Read More about The Criminal Justice System in Scotland.

Locked Down, Locked Out?: Local Partnership Resilience in the Covid-19 Pandemic - A Report on Interim Findings (2021)
Report
Buchan, J., Nogales, C., Wooff, A., & Morrison, K. (2021). Locked Down, Locked Out?: Local Partnership Resilience in the Covid-19 Pandemic - A Report on Interim Findings. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University

This report presents interim findings from a research project on local partnership working and resilience in the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures. This grant is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of UK... Read More about Locked Down, Locked Out?: Local Partnership Resilience in the Covid-19 Pandemic - A Report on Interim Findings.

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.

Probation in Europe: Scotland (2020)
Book Chapter
Grant, S., Buchan, J., & O'Donnell, A. (2020). Probation in Europe: Scotland. In Probation in Europe. Utrecht: Confederation of European Probation

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.

The special constable in Scotland: understanding the motivations, expectations and the role of the special constabulary within Police Scotland (2020)
Report
Wooff, A., Dickson, G., & Buchan, J. (2020). The special constable in Scotland: understanding the motivations, expectations and the role of the special constabulary within Police Scotland. Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)

This project sought to examine the nature of the Special Constabulary as a volunteering resource in Scotland, considering the way(s) that the motivations, expectations and management of Special Constables could be understood and improved.

By using... Read More about The special constable in Scotland: understanding the motivations, expectations and the role of the special constabulary within Police Scotland.