All Outputs (5)

Becoming a Prison Officer: An Analysis of the Early Development of Prison Officer Cultures (2020)
Journal Article
Morrison, K., & Maycock, M. (2021). Becoming a Prison Officer: An Analysis of the Early Development of Prison Officer Cultures. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 60(1), 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12394

Despite the fact that over recent years, imprisonment in Scotland has adopted a bold and aspirational policy direction including proposed reforms to the role of the prison officer, there has been little research into prison officers in Scotland, and... Read More about Becoming a Prison Officer: An Analysis of the Early Development of Prison Officer Cultures.

What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers? (2020)
Journal Article
Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2023). What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers?. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 8(2), 57-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2020.1821407

Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) were a unique role in the Scottish criminal justice system when they operated between 2015 and 2019. This research challenges and extends existing prison scholarship by asking a number of novel questions: to what e... Read More about What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers?.

"We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community (2020)
Journal Article
Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2020). "We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community. Probation Journal, 67(4), 358-374. https://

Between 2015 and 2019, forty-one Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) supported people serving short sentences leaving custody across eleven Scottish Prison Service (SPS) establishments. The role of prison officers in the provision of throughcare in t... Read More about "We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community.

The Paradox Of Scottish Life Imprisonment (2020)
Journal Article
Van Zyl Smit, D., & Morrison, K. (2020). The Paradox Of Scottish Life Imprisonment. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 28(1), 76-102. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-02801004

More people are serving life sentences in Scotland as a proportion of the national population than in any other country in Europe. Yet Scotland claims to adopt a welfarist rather than a penal approach to criminal justice. This paper uses a wide rang... Read More about The Paradox Of Scottish Life Imprisonment.

The Evolution of Punishment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Morrison, K. (2020, January). The Evolution of Punishment. Paper presented at Capital Punishment and Execution Broadsides in Scotland, The National Library of Scotland