Lunch and Learn: Capacity, participation and rights (Online presentation with breakout session discussions) – Teams, Thu 19 Nov 2026 - Summary: For the first time, CYCJ is hosting an online ‘lunch…

A project has been launched to improve the wellbeing of prisoners at HMP Glenochil through engagement with outdoor environments. The Courier was invited to meet some of those involved.

Amid rising social tensions, councils take down hundreds of Saltires and Union Flags

Rationale People in contact with the criminal justice system outside institutional settings have high levels of mental health and substance use problems, contributing to adverse outcomes. Help-seeking...

This chapter explores the complex interplay between mobility, freedom, and borders as the result of the criminalisation of migration, by focusing on practices

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Reflections on the Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission: Decarceration and Changing Scottish Justice for the Next Gene – Teams, Tue 29 Sep 2026 - Reflections on the Sentencing and Penal Policy…

Celebrating a century of international sporting competition preserved in the archives of Commonwealth Games Scotland.

Editors: Phil Crockett Thomas, Martin Cathcart Fröden, Alistair Fraser How might creative writing reflect and generate different kinds of knowledge and affect about crime, harm, and justice? Themes of...

Carnegie Masters Grants can help those from low-income backgrounds to access postgraduate study at Scottish universities

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The human face has long been a site of social and cultural meaning, a marker of identity, emotion, and character. Today, it has become a source of medically relevant information, processed through alg...

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In this book, over 40 contributors collectively tune in to how sound-and its absence-can function as a source of power that enables isolation, control and harm,…

Join SASO to learn out about the Sentencing & Penal Policy Commission’s newly published recommendations and to put your questions to them.

Understanding victimization inequality is crucial to addressing questions of fairness and justice in exposure to crime. A growing body of research has considere...

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Dr Hannah Graham is a Commissioner on the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. In this guest blog post, she focuses on what we learned from people who have been through the Justice syst...

Dr Hannah Graham is a Commissioner on the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. In this guest blog post, she focuses on what we learned from people who have been through the Justice…