Crime and Victimisation publications and outputs
Here you will find a list of journal articles, briefing papers, working papers, blog posts and other outputs from the Crime and Victimisation research programme by year of publication.
2019
Journal article: Increasing Inequality in Experience of Victimization During the Crime Drop: Analysing Patterns of Victimization in Scotland from 1993 to 2014–15
Authors: Susan McVie, Paul Norris, Rebecca Pillinger
Journal: The British Journal of Criminology
Date: 17th May 2019
Journal article: Hatescape? A relational geography of disability hate crime, exclusion and belonging in the city
Authors: Edward Hall and Ellie Bates
Journal: Geoforum
Date: May 2019
AQMeN Briefing paper 13: Reduction in homicide and violence in Scotland is largely explained by fewer gangs and less knife crime
Authors: Dr Sara Skott and Professor Susan McVie
Date: January 2019
2018
Author: Professor Susan McVie
Date: 6th September 2018
Has policing reform in Scotland led to a drop in the crime clear up rate?
Author: Professor Susan McVie
Date: 30th March 2018
Scottish Government report:
Author: Professor Susan McVie
Date: February 2018
2017
Dataset published in the UK Data Service data catalogue: Regional crime trends, local authority and community safety partnership crime trends data for Scotland, England and Wales: violence and burglary
Author: Dr Ellie Bates
Date: November 2017
AQMeN Research Briefing 12: Sexual homicide in Scotland
Authors: Sara Skott, Eric Beauregard and Raj Darjee
Date: October 2017
Report: Transforming stop and search
A report by Susan McVie and Kath Murray on how AQMeN research was central to transforming the landscape of stop and search in Scotland through a combination of research, policy engagement and working collaboratively with practitioners.
Date: July 2017
Authors: Susan McVie and Kath Murray
Date: 2017
Journal article: Local variance in the crime drop: A Longitudinal Study of Neighbourhoods in Greater Glasgow, Scotland
Authors: Bannister, J., Bates, E. and Kearns, A.
Journal: British Journal of Criminology
Date: April 2017
AQMeN Impact Case study: Stop and search in Scotland: transforming policy and practice and influencing cultural change
Author: Susan McVie
June 2017
AQMeN Impact Case study: Criminal careers and the crime drop: influencing Scotland’s youth justice strategy
Author: Ben Matthews
June 2017
AQMeN Impact Case Study: Building safer communities: changing the focus of crime reduction strategies in Scotland
Author: Susan McVie
June 2017
Journal article: The shrinking youth justice population: A change in behaviour or a change in the system?
Authors: Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
Journal: Scottish Justice Matters, 5(1): 38-39.
Date: April 2017
Journal article: International Handbook of Juvenile Justice – Scotland
Authors: Michelle Burman and Susan McVie
pp. 371-394
2017
Magazine article: Crime hotspots
Author: Ellie Bates
Magazine: The Geographer, page 26
Date: 2017
Magazine article: Space, place and crime in an era of ‘big data’
Author: Samuel Langton and Jon Bannister
Magazine: The Geographer, page 25
Date: 2017
Journal article: Crime Data and Criminal Statistics: A Critical Reflection
Authors: Mike Maguire and Susan McVie
Journal article: In A. Liebling, S. Maruna and L. McAra (eds) Oxford Handbook on Criminology. Sixth edition
Date: 2017
Journal article: Recent innovation in developmental and life-course criminology
Authors: McAra, L. and McVie, S.
Journal: In A. Liebling, S. Maruna and L. McAra (eds) Oxford Handbook on Criminology Sixth Edition
Date: 2017
Journal article: Social order: Crime and Justice in Scotland
Author: Susan McVie
Journal: In D. McCrone (Ed) The New Sociology of Scotland. Sage Publications Ltd.
Date: 2017
2016
Journal article: Investigating the relationship between the diversity index and frequency of offending
Authors: Brian Francis and Les Humphreys
Journal: Journal of Developmental and Life Course Criminology, 2(4): 397-416.
Date: December 2016
Consultation response: The need for a new power to search children for alcohol: a review of the evidence
Authors: Susan McVie and Kath Murray
Scottish Government consultation
June 2016
Journal article: Understanding youth violence: The mediating effects of gender, poverty and vulnerability
Authors: Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
Journal: Journal of Criminal Justice
Volume 45, June 2016, Pages 71-77
Journal article: Are crime statistics and surveys hiding the real extent of domestic forms of violence?
Author: Susan McVie
Journal: Scottish Justice Matters
Date: June 2016
AQMeN Research Briefing 10: Can we predict escalation in offending seriousness?
Authors: Brian Francis and Jiayi Liu
March 2016
Journal article: Smoothing group-based trajectory models through B-splines
Authors: Francis, B., Elliott, A. and Weldon, M.
Journal: Journal of Developmental and Life Course Criminology, 2(1): 113-133. .
Date: 2016
Journal article: Using the UK general offender database as a means to measure and analyse organized crime.
Authors: Stuart Kirby, Brian Francis, Les Humphreys and Keith Soothill
Journal: Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 78-94
Date: 2016
Journal article: Understanding youth violence: the mediating effects of gender, poverty and vulnerability.
Authors: Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
Journal: Journal of Criminal Justice, 71-77
Date: 2016
Journal article: Comparing trends in convictions and non-court disposals in Scotland
Author: Ben Matthews
Journal: Scottish Justice Matters
Date: 2016
Author: Kath Murray
Date: 2016
2015
AQMeN research paper: Police stop and search in Scotland – A brief review of evidence
Author: McVie, S
Date: 2015
Scottish Government report – Evaluation of the Whole System Approach to Young People Who Offend in Scotland
Authors:Kath Murray, Paul McGuiness, Michelle Burman and Susan McVie
Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Report
June 2015
Journal article: Has Scotland’s falling crime rate benefited everyone equally?
Journal: Scottish Justice Matters
Date: June 2015
Journal article: Winners and losers
Authors: Susan McVie, Rebecca Pillinger and Paul Norris
Journal: Britain in 2015 Magazine
Journal article: Scottish Justice Matters: Poverty, Inequality and Justice
Volume3, issue 3 in November 2015 was guest edited by Susan McVie and featured the following articles:
The reproduction of poverty
Susan McVie and Lesley McAra
Is poverty reflected in changing patterns of victimisation in Scotland? –
Susan McVie, Paul Norris and Rebecca Pillinger
Does place matter? – Dr Ellie Bates
Homicide in Scotland: the need for a deeper understanding – Sara Skott
Journal: Scottish Justice Matters
Date: November 2015
Journal article: Modelling escalation in crime seriousness: a latent variable approach
Authors: Brian Francis. and Jiayi Liu
Journal: Metron. 73(2): 277-297.
2015
Journal article: Comparing Difficulties and Combination Possibilities: Experiences in the United Kingdom
Author: Paul Norris
Journal: in Guzy, N, Birkel, C and Mischkowitz, R (Eds) Viktimisierungsbefragungen in Deutschland – Band 2: Methodik und Methodologie
Date: 2015
2014
AQMeN Research Briefing 1: Understanding the crime drop in Scotland
Les Humphreys, Brian Francis and Susan McVie
November 2014
AQMeN Research Briefing 2: Changing patterns of victimisation in
Scotland 1993 – 2011
Paul Norris, Rebecca Pillinger and Susan McVie
November 2014
AQMeN Research Briefing 3: Local differences in the crime drop: are there winners and losers?
Jon Bannister, Ellie Bates and Ade Kearns
November 2014
AQMeN Research Briefing 4: Where have all the young offenders gone?
Ben Matthews
November 2014
Journal article: Criminal neighbourhoods: Does the density of prior offenders in an area encourage others to commit crime?
Authors: Livingston, M., Galster, G., Kearns, A. and Bannister, J.
Journal: Environment and Planning A, 46: 2469-2488.
Date: 2014
Journal article: Neighbourhood structures and crime: the influence of tenure mix and other structural factors upon crime rates
Authors: Livingston, M., Kearns, A. and Bannister, J.
Journal: Housing Studies, 29(1): 1-25.
Date: 2014
Journal article: The Scottish Juvenile Justice System: Policy and Practice
Authors: Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
Journal: Published in Winterdyk, J. (Ed) Juvenile Justice: International Perspectives, Models and Trends.
Date: 2014