Mitigating risk in restorative justice
(2023)
Journal Article
Shapland, J., Buchan, J., Kirkwood, S., & Zinsstag, E. (in press). Mitigating risk in restorative justice. The International Journal of Restorative Justice, https://doi.org/10.5553/TIJRJ.000176
All Outputs (11)
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.12516Scotland'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.
BOOK REVIEW: Theo Gavrielides (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of restorative justice (2022)
Journal Article
Buchan, J. (2022). BOOK REVIEW: Theo Gavrielides (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of restorative justice. The International Journal of Restorative Justice, 2022(2),
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/10.1177/17488958221104229While 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.
Book Review: Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation by Matt Tidmarsh (2022)
Journal Article
Buchan, J. (2023). Book Review: Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation by Matt Tidmarsh. Punishment and Society, 25(4), 1144-1147. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221079000
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/s10610-020-09470-3This 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.
Book Review: Philippa Tomczak - The Penal Voluntary Sector (2020)
Journal Article
Buchan, J. (2020). Book Review: Philippa Tomczak - The Penal Voluntary Sector. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(3), 376-378. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819878281Abstract not available.
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/10.1177/2066220320927353This 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/10.1177/1748895818814903Community 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.
Book review: Philip Goodman, Joshua Page and Michelle Phelps, Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle over Criminal Justice (2018)
Journal Article
Buchan, J. (2018). Book review: Philip Goodman, Joshua Page and Michelle Phelps, Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle over Criminal Justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18(5), 647-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895817719785No abstract available.
Justice, Empowerment and Community in Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Buchan, J. (2016). Justice, Empowerment and Community in Scotland. Scottish Justice Matters, 4(2), 20-21No abstract available.