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The Crime, Justice & Society Seminar Series presents
Negotiated Identities, Parallel Lives
Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
About this event
In this paper we highlight the path dependencies which result from the intersection between early contact with juvenile justice, school exclusion and poverty, and lead to deeper and more intensive forms of criminal justice contact in later years. Despite these path dependencies, the criminal justice system does not feature as a central part of people’s narratives about their lives in early middle age nor their efforts to desist from offending – it is peripheral and perceived as just one of the many hazards to be negotiated. The paper, which draws on quantitative and qualitative data from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, reflects on the implications of these findings for theory, method and policy.
About the speakers
Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology in the School of Law, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, and Assistant Principal (Community Relations) at the University of Edinburgh. For the past twenty-six years she has been Co-Director (with Susan McVie) of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. Lesley is a former President of the European Society of Criminology and is part of the editorial team (along with Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna) of the Oxford Handbook of Criminology.
Susan McVie is Chair of Quantitative Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. She is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime; Director of the Policing the Pandemic in Scotland project; Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research; a member of the Scottish Advisory Panel on Offender Rehabilitation; and an associate member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.
Lesley and Susan have published numerous papers and book chapters from their work on the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. They have also presented on the work to audiences all over the globe, and have received several prizes for research impact relating to their influence on the Scottish juvenile justice system, the Whole Systems Approach, Pr*son policy reform, and legislative change, including (most recently) the increase in the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Edinburgh Law School, South Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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