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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
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: 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 local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: challenges and opportunities (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Buchan, J., Maglione, G., & Robertson, L. (2020, September). The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: challenges and opportunities. Paper presented at EUROCRIM 2020: 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Online

Buchan, J., Maglione, G., & Robertson, L. (2020, September). The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: challenges and opportunities. Paper presented at EUROCRIM 2020: 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Online... Read More about The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: challenges and opportunities.

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.

Restorative Justice in Scotland (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2020, February). Restorative Justice in Scotland

2020: Community Justice Scotland Academic Advisory Group, invited speaker on ‘Restorative Justice in Scotland’, Edinburgh, UK (with J. Buchan and L. Robertson).

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.