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Dr Jamie Buchan's Outputs (45)

Mitigation and risk in restorative justice (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shapland, J., Buchan, J., Kirkwood, S., & Zinsstag, E. (2025, March). Mitigation and risk in restorative justice. Presented at Why Me? Forum, Online

Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the ‘Rural Idyll’ in Scotland (2025)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., Horgan, S., Wooff, A., & Tatnell, A. (online). Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the ‘Rural Idyll’ in Scotland. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2481117

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural ‘policing’ (broadly defined to include a range of institutions involved in order maintenance) remains relatively under-discussed and under-theorised. The pandemic created particular challenges for these se... Read More about Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the ‘Rural Idyll’ in Scotland.

Justice Social Work in Scotland: Research, Education and Practice in a Devolved Jurisdiction (2024)
Book Chapter
Buchan, J., & Grant, S. (in press). Justice Social Work in Scotland: Research, Education and Practice in a Devolved Jurisdiction. In C. J. Bald, & I. Martinez Herrero (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Justice Social Work. Routledge

This chapter discusses Scotland, a devolved nation of the UK with separate law and criminal justice and significant policy autonomy. The system of social work set up by the 1968 Social Work (Scotland) Act absorbed probation, making ‘justice social wo... Read More about Justice Social Work in Scotland: Research, Education and Practice in a Devolved Jurisdiction.

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.

Progressive Penality as Performance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchan, J. (2024, April). Progressive Penality as Performance. Paper presented at ‘Independence, Abolition and Resistance’ a conference of the British/Irish section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Cardiff, UK

Progressive penality as performance (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchan, J., & McNeill, F. (2023, September). Progressive penality as performance. Paper presented at Eurocrim 2023: The Renaissance of European Criminology, Florence, Italy

Creating a people-centred view on risk and restorative justice (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shapland, J., Buchan, J., Kirkwood, S., & Zinsstag, E. (2023, September). Creating a people-centred view on risk and restorative justice. Paper presented at Eurocrim 2023: The Renaissance of European Criminology, Florence, Italy

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.

Community Justice in a European 'Penal Field'? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchan, J. (2022, August). Community Justice in a European 'Penal Field'?. Paper presented at SCCJR ECR Symposium: Punishment and Society, Glasgow

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?.