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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND

First published 1999 by Dartmouth and Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

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Copyright Peter Duff and Neil Hutton 1999

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 98044662

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-61259-4 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-61261-7 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-429-46342-6 (ebk)

Peter Duff is Professor in Criminal Justice in the Law Department at Aberdeen University. His major research interests are: the criminal jury; public prosecution systems; victims of crime; and comparative criminal procedure. Additionally, he has carried out several empirical studies of the Scottish criminal justice process for the Scottish Office. He has published in a wide range of legal and criminological periodicals and is the author or co-author of books on Criminal Injuries Compensation, Juries - A Hong Kong Perspective, and Victims in the Criminal Justice System.

Neil Hutton has an MA and PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Law School at the University of Strathclyde. He has published work on a range of socio-legal topics but his recent writing has concentrated on sentencing and punishment. He is a member of the team which has developed the Sentencing Information System for the High Court and is a founding member of the Centre for Sentencing Research at the University of Strathclyde.

Simon Anderson is an Associate Director of the research agency System Three, which he joined in August 1995 to help set up a dedicated Social Research Unit. Among the recent projects he has been responsible for are a large-scale study of crime in rural Scotland, research into police-led initiatives for tackling underage drinking, and a study of police witness duty at court. Simon was previously employed at Edinburgh University, where he worked on the first Edinburgh Crime Survey and a large-scale study of young people and crime, and in the Central Research Unit of The Scottish Office, where he was responsible for the design, management and analysis of the 1993 Scottish Crime Survey.

Stewart Asquith holds the St Kentigern Chair for the Study of the Child and is a member of the Centre for the Child & Society and the Department of Social Policy & Social Work, at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on childrens issues and in particular on juvenile justice from an international perspective - particularly in the context of rapid social change in Central and Eastern Europe. His other main areas of interest are currently the commercial sexual exploitation of children (on which he has written reports for the Council of Europe) and children in situations of armed conflict.

Jon Bannister is a lecturer in Social Policy attached to the Centre for the Child and Society, in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Glasgow. Jon previously held an ESRC fellowship in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. Jon has researched and published extensively on the issues of crime generally, the fear of crime and crime prevention. Jon (with Jason Ditton) has recently completed a major Economic and Social Research Council funded investigation entitled Fear of Crime: Conceptual Development, Field Testing and Empirical Confirmation.

Michele Burman teaches Criminology, Research Methods and Womens Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Director of the Criminology Research Unit. She has a longstanding research interest in women, law, sexuality and the criminal justice system and is the co-author of Sex Crimes on Trial and Police Specialist Units for the Investigation of Crimes of Violence against Women and Children. Her current research interests are sexual offences and the judicial process, and young womens use of violence.

James Carnie is Senior Research Officer in the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) and is responsible for the management and conduct of SPSs varied research agenda. He previously held research posts at the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling and has undertaken consultancy work on criminological issues on various occasions for the Scottish Office. He has published widely in the fields of criminal justice and social welfare.

Derek Chiswick has been a consultant forensic psychiatrist for 18 years and is the visiting psychiatrist to HM Prison, Edinburgh. He is responsible for forensic psychiatry services in the City of Edinburgh. He was a member of the Parole Board for Scotland between 1983 and 1988 and its vice chairman from 1984 to 1988. He was one of the two psychiatrist members of the Home Office Advisory Board on Restricted Patients between 1991 and 1997. He is co-editor of Seminars in Practical Forensic Psychiatry (Gaskell Publications, 1995).

Clare Connelly is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching interests are within the fields of criminal law and sociology, focusing on mentally disordered offenders and battered women who kill violent men. She is currently undertaking research on provisions to deal with mentally disordered offenders, funded by the Scottish Office, and is reading for a Doctorate in the Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow. She is a qualified Solicitor.

Jason Ditton is currently Professor of Criminology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sheffield, and Director of the Scottish Centre for Criminology. He has been researching in Scotland for over 20 years, and has published widely on the use of illegal drugs (mostly concentrating on heroin, cocaine and ecstasy), on crime prevention (the effect of improved street lights and open-street CCTV on crime rates), and on the fear of crime.

Mike Docherty qualified as a social worker in 1985. Following a period with Barnardos, he worked with Strathclyde Regional Council for over seven years as a social worker and senior social worker, working with children and young people in trouble and adult offenders. He then worked for three years as a lecturer in social work at Glasgow University, with his main areas of interest being social work in the Childrens Hearing and Criminal Justice Systems. He is currently the Manager of the West of Scotland Consortium for Education and Training in Social Work.

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