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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 criminal justice system in Scotland (2017)
Book Chapter
Morrison, K. (2017). The criminal justice system in Scotland. In Case, Johnson, Williams, Smith, & Manlow (Eds.), Criminology. Oxford University Press

No abstract available.

Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation (2017)
Journal Article
Curley, L. J., Murray, J., MacLean, R., & Laybourn, P. (2017). Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation. Medicine, Science and the Law, 57(4), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802417733354

To establish whether more consistent/accurate juror decision making is related to faster decision making processes which use fewer cues, i.e. fast and frugal heuristic processes. A correlational design was implemented, with the co-variables: consiste... Read More about Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation.

Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England (2017)
Journal Article
Skinns, L., Rice, L., Sprawson, A., & Wooff, A. (2017). Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 40(3), 601-613. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-06-2016-0077

For the most part, the procedural justice model has been found to generalise across different social groups and social contexts in the Anglo-American world (e.g. Jackson et al. 2013: 17). However, police custody is qualitatively different from other... Read More about Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England.

Decision Making Process of Jurors. (2017)
Book Chapter
Curley, L. (2017). Decision Making Process of Jurors. In B. Baker, R. Minhas, & L. Wilson (Eds.), Factbook: Psychology and Law. (2). European Association of Psychology and Law Student Society

No abstract available.

Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 50, 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.02.004

This work is a critical analysis of how the main crime stakeholders (victim, offender and community) are represented within policy and legal statutes on restorative justice. The paper starts by sketching out the legal and policy archive of restorativ... Read More about Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context.

Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws. Critical Criminology, 25(3), 453-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9349-8

Within the scholarly literature on restorative justice, the ‘community’, as a distinctive crime stakeholder, has been the target of extensive research. This work provides an original interpretation of the underlying images of the community within pol... Read More about Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws.

Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Hallenberg, K. M., & Haddow, C. (2016). Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability. Law Teacher, 50(3), 352-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2016.1262985

The potential of higher education in advancing sustainability has been widely accepted and even partly realised, although a wholesale reorientation of core activities and curricula toward and embedded with sustainability is still an exception. But ev... Read More about Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability.

Mediazione dei conflitti e declinazioni della in-sicurezza urbana. L'esperienza fiorentina (Mediation and declinations of urban in-security. The Florence experience) (2013)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2013). Mediazione dei conflitti e declinazioni della in-sicurezza urbana. L'esperienza fiorentina (Mediation and declinations of urban in-security. The Florence experience). In E. Urso (Ed.), Le ragioni degli altri. Mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo (525-534). Firenze University Press

Elena Urso (a cura di), Le ragioni degli altri. Mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo : una prospettiva comparatistica ed interdisciplinare, ISBN 978-88-6655-323-6 (print) ISBN 978-88-6655-324-3 (online PDF) ISBN 978-88-6655-465-3 (online EPU... Read More about Mediazione dei conflitti e declinazioni della in-sicurezza urbana. L'esperienza fiorentina (Mediation and declinations of urban in-security. The Florence experience).

Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. H., Pitchford, M., Atkins, R., Webster, A., Pollard, J., Hunt, B., Price, E., Morgan, S., Stoika, A., Dughila, R., Maftei, S., & Sendrea, G. (2010, September). Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites. Presented at 2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies

Facial composites are traditionally made by witnesses and victims describing and selecting parts of criminals’ faces, but this method is hard to do and has been shown to be generally ineffective. We have been working on an alternative system called E... Read More about Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites.

Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hancock, P. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Kittler, J. (2009, August). Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching. Presented at 2009 Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security

Identity verification by matching face images is a common security task; is this person on a wanted list? With unfamiliar faces, this is surprisingly difficult, with error rates in the region of 30%. With photographic identification increasingly comm... Read More about Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching.