The publication of The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation offers a timely and significant contribution to debates on punishment, reform, and the limits of the prison as an institut...

The HCDA, which sought to expose police corruption and violence, was secretly monitored for a decade

The new UCL/University of Exeter report on the Post Office scandal should alarm anyone who cares about justice in the UK. While much has been written about the Post Office’s aggressive prosecution str...

A Blog by Professor Margaret Malloch When injustice occurs at the hands of powerful institutions, it is rarely straightforward to have it acknowledged, let alone obtain redress. Institutional cover-up...

Podcast - Remembering Injustice: The Movement to Memorialize Scotland's Witch Trials with Dr Margaret Malloch Dr Margaret Malloch, Professor of Criminology at the University of Stirling (and integral ...

“There are two ways in which people are controlled: first of all frighten them, and secondly demoralise them... An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.” — Tony Benn https://www....

This week, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (AKA Mo Chara) of the Irish rap group Kneecap was charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig in London. The potential sentence? U...

Dr Kirstin Anderson, lecturer in criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, and Professor Yvonne Jewkes, one of the

The punishment system, far from preventing harm, often exacerbates it. Despite efforts in Scotland and elsewhere to reduce prison populations, judges and sheriffs persist in handing down custodial sen...

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a report in 2022 which likened indeterminate sentences to psychological torture.

RMA - Risk Management Authority The Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) is a unique sentence. The RMA oversee the administration.

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a report in 2022 which likened indeterminate sentences to psychological torture.

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a report in 2022 which likened indeterminate sentences to psychological torture.

By Nicola Ceesay (Doctoral Candidate, University of Glasgow) and Margaret Malloch (Professor of Criminology, University of Stirling). A recently formed group, NOLR, is leading a social media campaign ...

This powerful telling of the shocking ‘spy cops’ story does what only TV can: shows you the astonishing women at its heart. You’ll be engrossed for three hours

William had spent most of his life in the care of the state. His story was one of intergenerational trauma, common to...

Who is HN1? The spycops inquiry has given this officer a last-minute set of special measures to protect his anonymity & won't say why.

In a Bluesky post linking to his Guardian article, George Monbiot states: “Perhaps Prevent failed to pick up on the danger signs from Axel Rudakubana partly because, in common with other anti-terroris...