Punishment & Society Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research
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This series on crime and offender management features Professor of Criminology & Social Work Fergus McNeill.
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Beyond punishment: where and when?
Professor McNeil explores comparative penology and asks what can be learned from looking at practices, policies, systems and institutions across different geographical areas as well as historical eras. What can be done in response to critiques of current systems?
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Life: the ultimate penalty
Life imprisonment is discussed. Topics include questions around what happens after release, what a sentence like this means, and how to understand the growth in use and form of life sentences.
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Death: the ultimate penalty
Professor McNeill discusses the death penalty.
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Prisons: historical and contemporary perspectives
This lecture features University of Edinburgh Professor of Criminology Richard Sparks speaking on the historical and contemporary perspectives around prisons.
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Punishment in society
After a brief discussion of fines and financial penalties, based around the book 'The Currency of Justice' by Pat O'Malley, Professor McNeill invites a practitioner response from a social worker from Glasgow City Council to a paper he has co-authored on community sanctions.
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Dispensing punishments: courts and sentencing
Professor McNeill discusses sentencing with Professor Neil Hutton, former Dean of Law at the University of Strathclyde and pre-eminent scholar in the field.