(Body Orifice Security Scanner at HMP Low Moss – Image courtesy of Jenny Wicks Photography©) Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Annual Report April 2013 – March 2014 Contents Welcome and Introduction from SCCJR Co-Directors 3 • Roles of Alcohol in Intimate Partner Abuse (The Scotia Project) Liz Gilchrist, Alasdair Forsyth and Lana Ireland Enhancing Capacity in Crime and Justice Research 5 • Women and Communities: Gendered Conceptualizations of ‘Sectarianism’ Kay Goodall and Margaret Malloch SCCJR Staff Promotions, Awards and Achievements 6 • Evaluating the implementation and impact of the Offensive Behaviour and Threatening Communications (Scotland) 7th SCCJR Annual Lecture, May 2013 7 Act 2012 Niall Hamilton-Smith SCCJR Research Snapshots 8 • The Community Impact of Marches and Parades Niall Hamilton-Smith, Margaret Malloch and Susan Batchelor • An Ethnographic Exploration of a Social Protest Against the • The Whole System Approach for Children and Young People Italian Mafia Baris Cayli who Offend: An Evaluation of Early Stage Implementation • Developing a Professional Qualification for Scottish Prison Sarah MacQueen and Susan McVie Service Staff? A Report on Exploratory Work Richard Sparks, • The Elements of Effective Throughcare Margaret Malloch, Kirstin Anderson, Marguerite Schinkel and Fergus McNeill Gill McIvor, Sarah Armstrong and Marguerite Schinkel • (Re)Imagining Youth: A Comparative Study of Youth Leisure • Domestic Violence and Police/ Victim Interaction in Scotland & Hong Kong Susan Batchelor, Alistair Fraser, Sarah MacQueen, Paul Norris and Susan McVie Leona LI Ngai Ling and Lisa Whittaker • Scottish Advisory Panel on Offender Rehabilitation • Trafficking Culture Simon Mackenzie, Neil Brodie, Donna Yates, Fergus McNeill and Liz Gilchrist Suzie Thomas, Tess Davis, Jessica Dietzler, Meg Lambert, Annemiek Rhebergen and Emiline Smith • Applied Quantitative Methods Network Crime and Victimisation Strand Susan McVie, Jon Bannister, Brian Francis, Les Humphreys, • The Scottish Community Engagement Trial (ScotCET) and Rebecca Pillinger Sarah MacQueen and Dr Ben Bradford • The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime: • Scottish Crime and Justice Survey Sarah MacQueen, The Long Term Impact of Criminal Careers Susan McVie Michele Burman, Laura Robertson, Kath Murray, Ellie Bates and Lesley McAra and Susan McVie • Governing Youth Justice Anna Souhami • Violence against women: effective interventions and practices with perpetrators: a literature review Oona Brooks, Michele Burman, Nancy Lombard, Gill McIvor, Making an Impact 29 Leah Stevenson-Hastings and Debbie Kyle • REF 2014 – SCCJR Impact Case Studies • Offender Supervision in Europe Fergus McNeill • After Discovering Desistance Fergus McNeill SCCJR and Knowledge Exchange 30 SCCJR Research Projects 2013-2014 22 Working with Scottish Government 31 • Counter-Allegations of Domestic Abuse Reported to the Internationalisation 32 Police in Scotland: A pilot study Oona Brooks • Evaluation of the Police Scotland/Rape Crisis Scotland SCCJR in the Media 34 ‘Support to Report’ Pilot Advocacy Service Oona Brooks and Michele Burman Communicating and Engaging 35 • Knife Crime Interventions: ‘What Works?’, Rebecca Foster SCCJR Research Awards 2013-2014 36 • The Governance of Security and the Analysis of Risk for Sporting Mega-events: Security Planning for the 2014 The SCCJR PhD Community 37 Glasgow Commonwealth Games Michele Burman, Nick Fyfe, Simon Mackenzie, Niall Hamilton-Smith, Chris Johnston and • Funded studentships Suzanne Young, with assistance from Katrina Morrison and Jon Pickering PhD Snapshots 38 • Research into the Relationship between Domestic Abuse • SCCJR PhD Students and football Annie Rose Crowley, Oona Brooks and Nancy Lombard. SCCJR Publications 2013-14 56 • Bandits in Southern Italy and the Ottoman Empire: The Dichotomy between Resistance and Submission Baris Cayli 2 Michele Burman Gill McIvor Richard Sparks Welcome to the On behalf of all of the staff and SCCJR represents a unique alliance postgraduate researchers in the centre, of criminologists working collectively 2013-2014 Annual we have great pleasure in welcoming across Scottish universities with the you to our 2013-2014 Annual Report, aims of widening the criminological Report of the which demonstrates the strong research research agenda, increasing research Scottish Centre for collaboration between the Universities capacity through PhD programmes and of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and training, collaborating with local, national Crime and Justice Glasgow Caledonian University. SCCJR and international partners to develop was established in 2006 with core funding programmes of methodologically rigorous Research (SCCJR) from the Scottish Funding Council research which stimulates theoretical (SFC) and the Scottish Government discussions of crime and its governance Justice Analytical Services (SGJASD) and finding ways of increasing the use of and additional investment from the four criminological research. partner universities to support staffing and infrastructure. SCCJR is now well SCCJR currently comprises 22 research established and attracts funding from staff, 38 postgraduate students and a UK research councils, such as the ESRC full-time administrator; each year we also and AHRC, from European funders, such appoint 2-3 postgraduate interns to work as the European Commission and the with us on various research and knowledge European Research Council, and a range exchange activities. of charitable funders, such as Leverhulme and Alcohol Research UK, and other organisations. 3 We work from a range of theoretical This Annual Report provides information This Annual Report is also an opportunity perspectives and have a wide research on our major research and knowledge to thank the extraordinarily wide range of capacity covering all aspects of criminal exchange activities and external research people and local, national and international justice and criminology, with particular funding successes over the past year, organisations who have, in different ways, strengths in cultures and practices of and showcases the work of our growing contributed to the success of SCCJR punishment, gender, crime and justice, community of postgraduates. It has been over the past year, and indeed since youth crime and youth justice, gendered a very exciting year for us. The number its inception. Together, we have tried to violence, transnational crime and policing, and breadth of research projects, high make a difference by producing a body of organised crime, illicit markets, and quality publications, presentations and research that is theoretically informed and rehabilitation and desistance. SCCJR staff high profile events are impressive and of wide application. and postgraduates have methodological continue to reflect the vibrancy of the staff expertise in both quantitative (including and intellectual environment that we aim Michele Burman, Gill McIvor and survey design, longitudinal analysis and to develop at SCCJR. It has always been Richard Sparks (Co-Directors) statistical modelling) and qualitative our intention that our research makes April 2014 (including ethnography; oral histories, and a difference – both in advancing our discourse analysis) methods and analysis, academic disciplines and in constructively www.sccjr.ac.uk as well as evaluation methodologies. The contributing to public debate and policy leader of our CJ Quest research group, and practice development in relation to Susan McVie, also heads the Applied crime and criminal justice. To that end, the Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN II), Report also tries to show the significance which is funded by the ESRC. Further and impact of our work. information about our areas of expertise can be found on our website We hope you find this Annual Report (www.sccjr.ac.uk/subjects/). interesting and informative and that you may consider joining us as an We have a commitment to producing associate member or signing up to our high quality, high impact research which membership list through our web-site engages with current theoretical and to receive more information about the methodological debates in criminology work of SCCJR. We continue to strive and social science more generally. to consolidate and enhance SCCJR’s At a national level, we work closely with strengths in criminological research, to the Scottish Government and local forge meaningful links with research in governmental bodies to create, share the broader fields of Sociology, Law and and apply research in criminal justice Social Work, and increase our capacity policy and practice. We also work closely for collaboration with others. We are with colleagues from the Scottish Institute always looking for opportunities to work for Policing Research (SIPR) in the areas with others, whatever the nature of their of policing and security. Increasingly, engagement with the fields of criminology we are engaging with policy and practice and criminal justice. For research at an international level, and have several colleagues from around the world, we international research collaborations, offer opportunities for support to come such as the COST initiative on Offender and work with us through our Visiting Supervision in Europe, led by Fellowship programme Fergus McNeill. 4 Enhancing Capacity in Crime and Justice Research During 2013-2014 we have continued to grow in number and we are delighted to welcome several new research staff to SCCJR: Dr Oona Brooks was appointed as a Lecturer in Criminology