Professor Fergus McNeill
- Professor of Criminology & Social Work (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
telephone:
01413305075
email:
Fergus.McNeill@glasgow.ac.uk
Sccjr, Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street, Glasgow G12 8LR
Research interests
- Institutions, cultures and practices of punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration
- Sentencing and sanctions
- Imprisonment, Parole, Probation
- Youth Justice
- Desistance from crime
Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow where he works in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and in Sociology. Prior to becoming an academic in 1998, Fergus worked for a decade in residential drug rehabilitation and as a criminal justice social worker. His many research projects and publications have examined institutions, cultures and practices of punishment and rehabilitation and their alternatives.
Currently, Fergus is working on ‘Distant Voices: Coming Home’ which is a major, multi-partner 3-year Economic and Social Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council project exploring re-integration after punishment through creative practices and research methods. His most recent books include ‘Reimagining Rehabilitation: Beyond the Individual’ (with Lol Burke and Steve Collett) and ‘Pervasive Punishment: Making sense of mass supervision’.
Publications
Selected publications
Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2013) Understanding Penal Practice. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415635813
McNeill, F. (2012) Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 17(1), pp. 18-36. (doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02039.x)
McNeill, F. , Burns, N. , Halliday, S., Hutton, N. and Tata, C. (2009) Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: penal adaptation and misadaptation. Punishment and Society, 11(4), pp. 419-442. (doi: 10.1177/1462474509341153)
McNeill, F. and Beyens, K. (Eds.) (2013) Offender Supervision in Europe. Palgrave: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137379177
All publications
2024
McNeill, F. and Schinkel, M. (2024) Tertiary or relational desistance: contested belonging. International Journal of Criminal Justice, 6(1), pp. 47-74.
Hunter, C. L.C., McNeill, F. and Tripkovic, M. (2024) Criminal disenfranchisement: Developments in, and lessons from, Scotland. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 63(1), pp. 62-81. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12546)
2023
McNeill, F. (2023) Rehabilitation, recognition and misrecognition. Kriminologia, 3(2), pp. 109-120. (doi: 10.54332/krim.138656)
Buchan, J. and McNeill, F. (2023) Progressive penality as performance. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(3), pp. 325-340. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12516)
McNeill, F. (2023) Beyond the individual: correcting corrections. Journal of Community Justice, 32(2), pp. 5-11.
2022
McNeill, F. , Thomas, P. C. , Frödén, L. C., Collinson Scott, J., Escobar, O. and Urie, A. (2022) Time after time: imprisonment, re-entry and enduring temporariness. In: Carr, N. and Robinson, G. (eds.) Time and Punishment: New Contexts and Perspectives. Series: Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-201. ISBN 9783031121081 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12108-1_7)
Burke, L., Carr, N., Cluley, E., Collett, S. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2022) Reimagining Probation Practice: Re-forming Rehabilitation in an Age of Penal Excess. Routledge. ISBN 9780367775995
McNeill, F. (2022) Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Miller R. Punishment and Society, (doi: 10.1177/14624745221114157)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)
Armstrong, S. , Barkas, B. , Casey, R. , Cornish, N., Gormley, C. , McNeill, F. and Schinkel, M. (2022) Prisoner experiences of Covid-19 Restrictions in Scotland during 2020. Working Paper. University of Glasgow.
2021
Casey, R., McNeill, F. , Barkas, B. , Cornish, N., Gormley, C. and Schinkel, M. (2021) Pervasive punishment in a pandemic. Probation Journal, 68(4), pp. 476-492. (doi: 10.1177/02645505211050871)
Thomas, P. C. , McNeill, F. , Cathcart Froden, L., Collinson Scott, J., Escobar, O. and Urie, A. (2021) Re-writing punishment? Songs and narrative problem-solving. Incarceration, 2(1), (doi: 10.1177/26326663211000239)
2020
Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
McNeill, F. and Urie, A. (2020) Collaboration before collaborative research: the development of ‘Distant Voices’. Methodological Innovations, 13(2), pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1177/2059799120937270)
McNeill, F. (2020) Penal and welfare conditionality: discipline or degradation? Social Policy and Administration, 54(2), pp. 295-310. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12549)
Crockett Thomas, P. , Collinson Scott, J., McNeill, F. , Escobar, O., Cathcart Froden, L. and Urie, A. (2020) Mediating punishment? Prisoners’ songs as relational ‘problem-solving’ devices. Law Text Culture, 24(1), 7.
2019
Urie, A., McNeill, F. , Cathcart Frödén, L., Collinson-Scott, J., Crockett Thomas, P. , Escobar, O., Macleod, S. and McKerracher, G. (2019) Reintegration, hospitality and hostility: song-writing and song-sharing in criminal justice. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 3(1), pp. 77-101. (doi: 10.5617/jea.6914)
Ugwudike, P., Graham, H., McNeill, F. , Raynor, P., Taxman, F. S. and Trotter, C. (Eds.) (2019) The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice. Routledge. ISBN 9781138102057
Happer, C. , McGuinness, P., McNeill, F. and Tiripelli, G. (2019) Punishment, legitimacy and taste: the role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions. Crime, Media, Culture, 15(2), pp. 301-321. (doi: 10.1177/1741659018773848)
McNeill, F. (2019) Contesting probation in Scotland: how an agnostic perspective travels. Law and Social Enquiry, 44(3), pp. 814-821. (doi: 10.1017/lsi.2019.33)
McNeill, F. (2019) Mass supervision, misrecognition and the ‘Malopticon’. Punishment and Society, 21(2), pp. 207-230. (doi: 10.1177/1462474518755137)
Anderson, S. and McNeill, F. (2019) Desistance and cognitive transformations. In: Farrington, D. P., Kazemian, L. and Piquero, A. R. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190201371
2018
Burke, L., Collett, S. and McNeill, F. (2018) Reimagining Rehabilitation: Beyond the individual. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138233188 (doi: 10.4324/9781315310176)
McNeill, F. (2018) Rehabilitation, corrections and society: the 2017 ICPA Distinguished Scholar Lecture. Advancing Corrections Journal, 5, pp. 10-20.
McNeill, F. , Mark, , Thomas, O. and Thornden-Edwards, K. (2018) Helping, holding, hurting: a conversation about supervision. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 57(1), pp. 94-106. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12240)
McIvor, G., Graham, H. and McNeill, F. (2018) Prisoner resettlement in Scotland. In: Dünkel, F., Pruin, I., Storgaard, A. and Weber, J. (eds.) Prisoner Resettlement in Europe. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138721234
McNeill, F. and Graham, H. (2018) Resettlement, reintegration and desistance in Europe. In: Dünkel, F., Pruin, I., Storgaard, A. and Weber, J. (eds.) Prisoner Resettlement in Europe. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138721234
McNeill, F. (2018) Pervasive Punishment: Making Sense of Mass Supervision. Emerald: Bingley. ISBN 9781787564664
2017
Fitzgibbon, W., Graebsch, C. and McNeill, F. (2017) Pervasive punishment: experiencing supervision. In: Brown, M. and Carrabine, E. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138888630
Liebling, A., McNeill, F. and Schmidt, B. E. (2017) Criminological engagements. In: Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [6th ed.]. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198719441
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2017) Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion and moderation. In: Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [6th ed.]. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198719441
McNeill, F. (2017) Post-script: Guide, guard and glue – Electronic monitoring and penal supervision. European Journal of Probation, 9(1), pp. 103-107. (doi: 10.1177/2066220317700544)
McNeill, F. (2017) Supervisible: Experiences of Criminal Justice in Scotland. Other. The Howard League for Penal Reform, London.
Nugent, B. and McNeill, F. (2017) Young people and desistance. In: Furlong, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood [2nd ed.]. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge, pp. 411-420. ISBN 9781138804357
2016
Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2016) Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice. Series: Beyond the risk paradigm. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137441324
McNeill, F. (2016) The collateral consequences of risk. In: Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice. Palgrave. ISBN 9781137441324
Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (2016) Changing risks, risking change. In: Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice. Palgrave. ISBN 9781137441324
McNeill, F. , Durnescu, I. and Butter, R. (Eds.) (2016) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781137519801
Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (2016) Introduction: questions, questions, questions. In: Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (eds.) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 1-7. ISBN 9781137519801 (print) 9781137519825 (online) (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_1)
McNeill, F. (2016) The fuel in the tank or the hole in the boat? Can sanctions support desistance. In: Shapland, J., Farrall, S. and Bottoms, A. (eds.) Global Perspectives On Desistance: Rethinking What We Know and Looking to the Future. Routledge: Oxford, pp. 265-281. ISBN 9781138851009
McNeill, F. (2016) What (good) is punishment? In: Farrall, S., Goldson, B., Loader, I. and Dockley, A. (eds.) Justice and Penal Reform: Reshaping the penal landscape. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138191075
McNeill, F. , Butter, R. and Durnescu, I. (2016) Conclusion: the 12th question. In: Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (eds.) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 263-274. ISBN 9781137519801 (print) 9781137519825 (online) (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_13)
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2016) Explaining probation. In: Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (eds.) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 245-261. ISBN 9781137519801 (print) 9781137519825 (online) (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_12)
McNeill, F. and Schinkel, M. (2016) Prisons and desistance. In: Jewkes, Y., Crewe, B. and Bennett, J. (eds.) Handbook on Prisons. 2nd edition. Routledge: London, pp. 607-621. ISBN 9780415745659
2015
Kirkwood, S. and McNeill, F. (2015) Integration and reintegration: comparing pathways to citizenship through asylum and criminal justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 15(5), pp. 511-526. (doi: 10.1177/1748895815575618)
Grant, S. and McNeill, F. (2015) What matters in practice? Understanding 'quality' in the routine supervision of offenders in Scotland. British Journal of Social Work, 45(7), pp. 1985-2002. (doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcu056)
McNeill, F. (2015) Rethinking what helps? Beyond probation and desistance. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(3), pp. 311-312. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12132_1)[Book Review]
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2015) Lifelines: desistance, social relations, and reciprocity. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 42(1), pp. 95-107. (doi: 10.1177/0093854814550031)
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2015) Community Punishment: European Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138818644
McNeill, F. (2015) Desistance and criminal justice in Scotland. In: Croall, H., Mooney, G. and Munro, M. (eds.) Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415750301
McNeill, F. (2015) Positive criminology, positive criminal justice? In: Ronel, N. and Sergev, D. (eds.) Positive Criminology. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice (23). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748568
McNeill, F. (2015) Reductionism, rehabilitation and reparation: community punishment in Scotland. In: Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Community Punishment: European Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138818644
2014
McNeill, F. and Dawson, M. (2014) Social solidarity, penal evolution and probation. British Journal of Criminology, 54(5), pp. 892-907. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu042)
Grant, S. and McNeill, F. (2014) The quality of probation supervision: comparing practitioner accounts in England and Scotland. European Journal of Probation, 6(2), pp. 147-168. (doi: 10.1177/2066220314542942)
Robinson, G., Priede, C., Farrall, S., Shapland, J. and McNeill, F. (2014) Understanding 'quality' in probation practice: frontline perspectives in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(2), pp. 123-142. (doi: 10.1177/1748895813483763)
McNeill, F. (2014) Punishment as rehabilitation. In: Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer: New York, pp. 4195-4206. ISBN 9781461456896 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_347)
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2014) Desistance and supervision. In: Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer: New York, pp. 958-967. ISBN 9781461456896 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_29)
2013
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2013) Discovering desistance: reconfiguring criminal justice? Scottish Justice Matters, 1(2), pp. 3-6.
McNeill, F. and Beyens, K. (Eds.) (2013) Offender Supervision in Europe. Palgrave: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137379177
McGuinness, P., McNeill, F. and Armstrong, S. (2013) The use and impact of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974): final report. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow.
Robinson, G., Priede, C., Farrall, S., Shapland, J. and McNeill, F. (2013) Doing 'strengths-based' research: appreciative Inquiry in a probation setting. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13(1), pp. 3-20. (doi: 10.1177/1748895812445621)
Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2013) Understanding Penal Practice. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415635813
Burke, L. and McNeill, F. (2013) The devil in the detail: community sentences, probation and the market. In: Dockley, A. and Loader, I. (eds.) The Penal Landscape: The Howard League Guide to Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415823289
McNeill, F. (2013) Community sanctions and European penology. In: Daems, T., Snacken, S. and Van Zyl Smit, D. (eds.) European Penology. Series: Oñati international series in law and society. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781849462334
McNeill, F. (2013) Changing lives, changing work: social work and criminal justice. In: Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Understanding Penal Practice. Taylor and Francis: London, pp. 167-178. ISBN 9780203087220 (doi: 10.4324/9780203087220)
McNeill, F. (2013) Transforming rehabilitation: evidence, values and ideology. British Journal of Community Justice, 11(2/3), pp. 83-87.
Shapland, J., Sorsby, A., Robinson, G., Priede, C., Farrall, S. and McNeill, F. (2013) What quality means to probation staff in England in relation to one- to-one supervision. In: Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Understanding Penal Practice. Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice. Taylor and Francis: London, pp. 139-152. ISBN 9780203087220 (doi: 10.4324/9780203087220)
2012
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2012) Liquid legitimacy and community sanctions. In: Crawford, A. and Hucklesby, A. (eds.) Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice. Routledge: Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415671552
Armstrong, S. , McIvor, G., McNeill, F. and McGuinness, P. (2012) International Evidence Review of Conditional (Suspended) Sentences: Final Report. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow, UK.
McNeill, F. (2012) Counterblast: a Copernican correction for community sentences? Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 51(1), pp. 94-99. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00699.x)
McNeill, F. (2012) Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 17(1), pp. 18-36. (doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02039.x)
Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2012) Reducing Reoffending: Review of Selected Countries. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), Glasgow.
McNeill, F. (2012) Probation et sortie de delinquance: qu’est-ce qui fonctionne et qu’est-ce qui est equitable? In: Mohammad, M. (ed.) Les sorties de delinquance: Theories, methods, enquetes. La Decouverte: Paris. ISBN 9782707169938
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2012) How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance. Other. Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services.
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2012) Reexamining evidence-based practice in community corrections: beyond 'a confined view' of what works. Justice Research and Policy, 14(1), pp. 35-60. (doi: 10.3818/JRP.14.1.2012.35)
Robinson, G., McNeill, F. and Maruna, S. (2012) Punishment in society: the improbable persistence of probation and other community sanctions and measures. In: Simon, J. and Sparks, R. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society. Sage. ISBN 9781848606753
Shapland, J., Bottoms, A., Farrall, S., McNeill, F. , Priede, C. and Robinson, G. (2012) The Quality of Probation Supervision: A Literature Review. Project Report. Centre for Criminological Research: University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
Snacken, S. and McNeill, F. (2012) Scientific recommendations. In: Flore, D., Bosly, S., Honhon, A. and Maggio, J. (eds.) Probation Measures and Alternative Sanctions in the European Union. Intersentia: Cambridge. ISBN 9781780680439
2011
McNeill, F. , Anderson, K., Colvin, S., Overy, K., Sparks, R. and Tett, L. (2011) Inspiring desistance? Arts projects and 'what works?'. Justitiele Verkenningen, 37(5), pp. 80-101.
McNeill, F. (2011) Determined to punish? Scotland's choice. In: Hassan, G. and Ilett, R. (eds.) Radical Scotland : arguments for self-determination. Series: Viewpoints. Luath Press Limited: Edinburgh, pp. 128-142. ISBN 9781906817947
McNeill, F. (2011) Probation, credibility and justice. Probation Journal, 58(1), pp. 9-22. (doi: 10.1177/0264550510388969)
McNeill, F. (2011) Supporting Desistance from Crime: Reconfiguring Penal Practice. [Audio]
McNeill, F. , Anderson, K., Colvin, S., Overy, K., Sparks, R. and Tett, L. (2011) Kunstprojecten en What Works; een stimulans voor desistance? [Inspiring desistance? Arts projects and 'what works'?]. Justitiele Verkenningen, 37(5), pp. 80-101.
Taylor, R., Hill, M. and McNeill, F. (2011) 21st Century Social Work: A Resource for Early Professional Development. Venture Press.
2010
McNeill, F. , Raynor, P. and Trotter, C. (Eds.) (2010) Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice. Willan: Cullompton. ISBN 9781843929369
Burman, M. , Johnstone, J., Fraser, A. and McNeill, F. (2010) Scotland. In: Dünkel, F., Grzywal, P., Horsfield, P. and Pruin, I. (eds.) Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe - Current Situation and Reform Developments. Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH: Mönchengladbach, pp. 1149-1194. ISBN 9783936999754
Farrall, S. and McNeill, F. (2010) Desistance and social work. In: Herzog-Evans, M. and Dréan-Rivette, I. (eds.) Transnational Criminology Manual. Wolf Legal Publishers. ISBN 9789058505736
Leverick, F. , Chalmers, J. , Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2010) Part of the establishment? A decade of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Scots Law Times(27), pp. 147-151.
McNeill, F. (2010) Supervision in historical context: Learning the lessons of (oral) history. In: McNeill, F., Raynor, P. and Trotter, C. (eds.) Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice. Willan: Cullompton.
McNeill, F. (2010) Youth justice: policy, research and evidence. In: Johnstone, J. and Burman, M. (eds.) Youth Justice. Series: Practice & policy in health and social care (9). Dunedin Academic Press, pp. 43-59. ISBN 9781903765913
McNeill, F. , Bracken, D. and Clarke, A. (2010) Social work and criminal justice. In: Shaw, I., Briar-Lawson, K., Orme, J. and Ruckdeschel, R. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Social Work Research. Sage. ISBN 9781412934985
McNeill, F. , Bracken, D. and Clarke, A. (2010) Social Work, Criminal Justice and their Reconfiguring Relationships. Revista de Asistenta Sociala, 8(1), pp. 114-124.
McNeill, F. , Burnett, R. and McCulloch, T. (2010) Culture, Change and Community Justice. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Criminal Justice, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
McNeill, F. and Maruna, S. (2010) Paying Back and Trading Up: Reforming Character. In: European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Liege, 8-10 September, 2010, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Weaver, B. (2010) Changing Lives? Desistance Research and Offender Management. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/pubs/Changing-Lives-Desistance-Research-and-Offender-Management/255).
Munro, M. and McNeill, F. (2010) Fines, community sanctions and measures. In: Croall, H., Mooney, G. and Munro, M. (eds.) Criminal Justice in Scotland. Willan: Collumpton, UK. ISBN 9781843927860
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2010) Probation in the UK. In: Herzog-Evans, M. and Dréan-Rivette, I. (eds.) Transnational Criminology Manual. Wolf Legal Publishers. ISBN 9789058505736
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2010) Public protection in Scotland. In: Williams, A. and Nash, M. (eds.) Handbook of Public Protection. Willan. ISBN 9781843928515
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2010) Travelling hopefully: desistance research and probation practice. In: Brayford, J., Cowe, F. and Deering, J. (eds.) What Else Works?: Creative Work with Offenders. Willan: Cullompton. ISBN 9781843927662
2009
McNeill, F. , Burns, N. , Halliday, S., Hutton, N. and Tata, C. (2009) Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: penal adaptation and misadaptation. Punishment and Society, 11(4), pp. 419-442. (doi: 10.1177/1462474509341153)
McNeill, F. (2009) Scotland's Choice: Evidence, Policy and Policy-Making? In: Re-imagining the Role of Prison in Irish Society, Dublin Castle, Dublin, 18 Jun 2009,
Leverick, F. , Chalmers, J. , Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2009) Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission: 10th Anniversary Research. Project Report. Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, Glasgow, UK.
Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2009) Choice versus crisis: how Scotland could transform the way we think about prisons and punishment. Criminal Justice Matters, 75(1), pp. 2-4. (doi: 10.1080/09627250802699632)
Barry, M. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2009) Youth Offending and Youth Justice. Series: Research highlights. Jessica Kingsley: London. ISBN 9781843106890
Halliday, S., Burns, N. , Hutton, N., McNeill, F. and Tata, C. (2009) Street-level bureaucracy, interprofessional relations, and coping mechanisms: a study of criminal justice social workers in the sentencing process. Law and Policy, 31(4), pp. 405-428. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9930.2009.00306.x)
McNeill, F.E. (2009) Review: 'Poor discipline: parole and the social control of the underclass 1890–1990' by Jonathan Simon and 'Supervising offenders in the community: a history of probation theory and practice' by Maurice Vanstone. Probation Journal, 56(2), pp. 190-193. (doi: 10.1177/02645505090560020302)[Book Review]
McNeill, F. (2009) The desistance paradigm and the revival of offender rehabilitation. In: Address at the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 31 March 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Desistance theory: why do some people stop committing crimes? In: Annual conference of the Staff Academy of the Norwegian Correctional Services (KRUS), Oslo,
McNeill, F. (2009) Effective practice: why literacies are important for offenders. In: Pathways Through Learning, Edinburgh,
McNeill, F. (2009) Helping, holding, hurting: recalling and reforming punishment. In: The 6th Annual Apex Lecture, Edinburgh, 8th September 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Hysteresis and reconfiguration: narratives of risk and responsibility in pre-sentence reports. In: 2nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions,
McNeill, F. (2009) Probation, rehabilitation and reparation. In: 2nd Annual Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture, Dublin, May 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Probation, rehabilitation and reparation. Irish Probation Journal, 6, pp. 5-22.
McNeill, F. (2009) Recalling Supervision: Learning the Lessons of (Oral) History. In: 3rd Annual Meeting of Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS), Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, 4-5 September, 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Social capital theory into practice: desistance - What makes a difference? In: Prison Leavers’ Health: Opportunities and Prospects, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh,
McNeill, F. (2009) Supervising young offenders: what works and what’s right. In: Barry, M. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Youth Offending and Youth Justice. Series: Research highlights (52). Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 132-153. ISBN 9781843106890
McNeill, F. (2009) Towards Effective Practice in Offender Supervision. Discussion Paper. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
McNeill, F. (2009) What works and what’s just? European Journal of Probation, 1(1), pp. 21-40.
McNeill, F. (2009) What Works in Probation? Proces: Tijdschrift voor Strafrechtspleging, 88(3), pp. 129-146.
McNeill, F. (2009) Young people, serious offending and managing risk : a scottish perspective. In: Baker, K. and Sutherland, A. (eds.) Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements And Youth Justice. Series: Researching criminal justice series. Policy Press. ISBN 9781847422156
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2009) Liquid Legitimacy: Negotiating Compliance with Community Sanctions. In: International Symposium on Legitimacy and Compliance and Criminal Justice, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, England, 25-26 June, 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Weaver, B. (2009) Partial stories: recollecting Scottish probation in the 1960s. In: 9th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Ljubljana,
Sparks, R. and McNeill, F. (2009) Incarceration, Social Control and Human Rights. Project Report. International Council on Human Rights Policy. (doi: http://www.ichrp.org/files/papers/175/punishment_and_incarceration_sparks_and_mcneill.pdf).
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2009) Travelling Hopefully: Desistance Research and Probation Practice. In: 9th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Ljubljana, 9-12 September, 2009, (Unpublished)
2008
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2008) Exploring the dynamics of compliance with community penalties. Theoretical Criminology, 12(4), pp. 431-449. (doi: 10.1177/1362480608097151)
McCulloch, T. and McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance-focused approaches. In: Green, S., Lancaster, E. and Feasey, S. (eds.) Addressing Offending Behaviour: Context, Practice and Values. Willan Publishing: Cullompton, pp. 154-171. ISBN 9781843922438
Halliday, S., Burns, N., Hutton, N., McNeill, F. and Tata, C. (2008) Shadow writing and participant observation: a study of criminal justice social work around sentencing. Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), pp. 189-213. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2008.00435.x)
McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (2008) Developments in probation in Scotland. In: McIvor, G. and Raynor, P. (eds.) Developments in Social Work with Offenders. Series: Research highlights in social work (48). Jessica Kingsley: London, pp. 82-98. ISBN 9781843105381
McNeill, F. and Maruna, S. (2008) Giving up and giving back: desistance, generativity and social work with offenders. In: McIvor, G. and Raynor, P. (eds.) Developments in Social Work with Offenders. Series: Research highlights in social work (48). Jessica Kingsley: London, pp. 224-339. ISBN 9781843105381
McNeill, F. (2008) Benefits and Challenges of Alternative Sentencing. In: Two-day seminar on Alternative Sentencing for the Cayman Islands Government, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands,
McNeill, F. (2008) Beyond risk and need: Good lives for every child. In: National Association for Youth Justice Annual Conference, Newport, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance research and interventions practice. In: Scottish Prison Service Annual Conference, Clydebank, UK, 18 - 19 Sep 2008, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance research and offender supervision. In: Invitational Conference de Betekens van de Levensloopbenadering Voor de Reclassering, Hogeschool Utrecht, 24th October, 2008, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance theory and reducing criminality. In: ‘Addressing Criminality’ an invited presentation at a Home Office/Ministry of Justice/British Society of Criminology Symposium, King’s College, London, 15 Dec 2008, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Public opinion, punishment and payback. In: Beyond McLeish: New Ideas, Lasting Solutions’ a Holyrood Communications Conference, Edinburgh, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) Social work, payback and punishment. In: Lightowler, C. and Hare, D. (eds.) Prisons and Sentencing Reform: Developing policy in Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, pp. 18-21.
McNeill, F. (2008) Veterans and villains: Oral history and penological research. In: British Society of Criminology’s annual conference, Huddersfield, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) Veterans' voices: Oral histories of Scottish probation. In: European Society of Criminology’s annual conference, Edinburgh, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) What works in probation? In: European Conference of Directors of Probation Services, Strasbourg, France,
McNeill, F. (2008) Young People, Serious Offending and Managing Risk: A Scottish Perspective. In: Baker, K. and Sutherland, A. (eds.) Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements and Youth Justice. The Policy Press: Bristol.
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2008) Audit of Youth Crime in North Ayrshire. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Halliday, S. (2008) The local rep and the Royal Shakespeare Company: Problems of identity and capital for social workers as actors in the criminal justice system. In: ESRC Seminar: The effects of professionals' human and cultural capital for interprofessional social capital, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (Unpublished)
2007
McCulloch, T. and McNeill, F. (2007) Consumer society, commodification and offender management. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7(3), pp. 223-242. (doi: 10.1177/1748895807078863)
Hutton, N. and McNeill, F. (2007) Social Workers as Sentencers: Professional Tensions and Insecurities. In: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Bologna, 26-28 September, 2007, (Unpublished)
McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (2007) Probation in Scotland: past, present and future. In: Gelsthorpe, L. and Morgan, R. (eds.) The Handbook of Probation. Willan: Cullompton, pp. 131-154. ISBN 1843921898
McNeill, F. and McIvor, G. (2007) Scotland: criminal justice social work. In: Canton, R. and Hancock, D. (eds.) The Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management. Willan: Cullompton, pp. 280-282. ISBN 9781843922896
McNeill, F. and Whyte, B. (2007) Reducing Reoffending: Social Work and Community Justice in Scotland. Willan: Cullompton, UK. ISBN 9781843922186
McNeill, F. (2007) Hysteresis, Risk and Redemption: Social Enquiry and the New Penology. In: Law and Society Annual Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 25-28 July, 2007, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2007) Hysteresis, Risk and Redemption: Social Enquiry and the New Penology. In: British Society of Criminology's Annual Conference, London School of Economics, London, England, 18-20 September, 2007, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2007) Rethinking Compliance. In: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Bologna, 26-28 September, 2007, (Unpublished)
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2007) Desistance. In: Godson, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Youth Justice. Willan: Cullompton. ISBN 9781843922940
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2007) Desistance. In: Canton, R. and Hancock, D. (eds.) The Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management. Willan: Cullompton, Devon, pp. 90-92. ISBN 9781843922896
2006
Burman, M., Bradshaw, P., Hutton, N., McNeill, F. and Munro, M. (2006) The end of an era? Youth justice in Scotland. In: Junger-Tas, J. and Scott, H.D. (eds.) International Handbook of Juvenile Justice. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 435-467. ISBN 9781402044007
Burnett, R., Batchelor, S. and McNeill, F. (2006) Reducing reoffending: Lessons from psychotherapy and counselling. Criminal Justice Matters, 61(41), pp. 32-41.
McNeill, F. (2006) Community supervision: context and relationships matter. In: Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (eds.) Youth Crime and Justice: Critical Issues. Sage: London, pp. 125-138. ISBN 9781412911375
McNeill, F. (2006) A desistance paradigm for offender management. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6(1), pp. 39-62. (doi: 10.1177/1748895806060666)
McNeill, F. (2006) Desistance, Social Capital and Community Penalties. In: 6th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Tubingen, Germany, 26-29 August, 2006, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Burns, N. (2006) Navigating the Margins: Influencing Sentencing Through Social Enquiry. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Law School, University of Stirling, Scotland, 28-30 March, 2006, (Unpublished)
2005
Burnett, R. and McNeill, F. (2005) The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime. Probation Journal, 52(3), pp. 221-242. (doi: 10.1177/0264550505055112)
McNeill, F. (2005) Remembering probation in Scotland. Probation Journal, 52(1), pp. 23-38. (doi: 10.1177/0264550505050624)
Batchelor, S. and McNeill, F. (2005) Offending. In: Smith, M., Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care: Glasgow, UK, pp. 216-221. ISBN 9781900743235
Batchelor, S.A. and McNeill, F. (2005) The young person-worker relationship. In: Bateman, T. and Pitts, J. (eds.) Russell House Companion to Youth Justice. Russell House Publishing: London. ISBN 9781903855492
McNeill, F., Batchelor, S. , Burnett, R. and Knox, J. (2005) 21st Century Social Work: Reducing Re-Offending: Key Practice Skills. Scottish Executive: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780755945696
McNeill, F. and Burns, N. (2005) Redemption and Risk: Social Enquiry and the New Penology. In: Re-awakening the Criminological Imagination. British Society of Criminology Conference, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, England, 12-14 July, 2005, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and McCulloch, P. (2005) Commodification of Probation. In: Re-awakening the Criminological Imagination. The British Society of Criminology Conference, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, England, 12-14 July, 2005, (Unpublished)
Smith, M., Forrest, B., McNeill, F. and McMillan, N. (2005) Historical and policy context of secure accommodation. In: Smith, M., Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care: Glasgow, UK, pp. 8-23. ISBN 9781900743235
2004
McNeill, F. (2004) Desistance, rehabilitation and correctionalism: developments and prospects in Scotland. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(4), pp. 420-436. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2004.00339.x)
McNeill, F. (2004) Supporting desistance in probation practice: a response Maruna, Porter and Carvalho. Probation Journal, 51(3), pp. 241-247. (doi: 10.1177/0264550504046746)
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2004) Persistent Offending by Young People: Developing Practice. Series: Issues in community and criminal justice (3). National Association of Probation Officers: London, UK. ISBN 9780901617187
McNeill, F. (2004) Correctionalism, desistance and the future of probation in Ireland. Irish Probation Journal, 1(1), pp. 28-43.
McNeill, F. (2004) Probation in Scotland: From Welfare to Correctionalism? In: Global Similarities, Local Differences. 4th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25-28 August, 2004, (Unpublished)
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2004) Purposes matters: examining the ends of probation. In: What Matters in Probation. Willan: Cullompton, pp. 277-304. ISBN 978184392052
Smith, M., McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2004) Risk assessment. In: Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care: Glasgow, pp. 1-7. ISBN 190074323X
2003
McNeill, F. (2003) Desistance-focused probation practice. In: Chui, W.H. and Nellis, M. (eds.) Moving Probation Forward: Evidence, Arguments and Practice. Pearson: Harlow, UK, pp. 146-162. ISBN 9780582472778
2002
McNeill, F. (2002) Assisting sentencing, promoting justice? In: Tata, C. and Hutton, N. (eds.) Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 429-451. ISBN 9780754621836
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S.A. (2002) Chaos, containment and change: responding to persistent offending by young people. Youth Justice, 2(1), pp. 27-43. (doi: 10.1177/147322540200200104)
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2002) Probation and Meta-narrative: Exploring the Ideological Purposes of Contemporary Probation Practice. In: Crossing Borders. British Society of Criminology Conference, Keele University, 17-20 July, 2002, (Unpublished)
2001
McNeill, F. (2001) Developing effectiveness: frontline perspectives. Social Work Education, 20(6), pp. 671-687. (doi: 10.1080/02615470120089843)
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2001) Chaos, Containment and Change: Undertaking a Local Analysis of the Problems of Persistent Offending by Young People. In: Villains and Victims: Children and the Penal System. The Howard League Annual Conference, New College, Oxford, 11-12 September, 2001,
2000
McNeill, F. (2000) Defining effective probation: frontline perspectives. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 39(4), pp. 382-397. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2311.00177)
McNeill, F. (2000) Making criminology work: theory and practice in local context. Probation Journal, 47(2), pp. 108-118. (doi: 10.1177/026455050004700204)
McNeill, F. (2000) Measuring effectiveness: linking policy, research and practice. Probation Journal, 47(1), pp. 4-11. (doi: 10.1177/026455050004700102)
McNeill, F. (2000) North and South: Changing Ideologies of Probation in Mainland Britain. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leicester, England, 5-7 July, 2000, (Unpublished)
1999
McNeill, F. (1999) An Aid to Sentencing? Five Years of Social Enquiry. In: Sentencing and Society: an International Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 24-26 June 1999, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (1999) Soft Options and Hard Cases: Public Attitudes, Social Inclusion and Probation. In: 17th Annual Conference of the Howard League for Penal Reform, New College, Oxford, 15-16 September, 1999, (Unpublished)
1995
McNeill, F. (1995) What is to be done? Probation Journal, 42(3), pp. 146-151. (doi: 10.1177/026455059504200304)
Articles
McNeill, F. and Schinkel, M. (2024) Tertiary or relational desistance: contested belonging. International Journal of Criminal Justice, 6(1), pp. 47-74.
Hunter, C. L.C., McNeill, F. and Tripkovic, M. (2024) Criminal disenfranchisement: Developments in, and lessons from, Scotland. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 63(1), pp. 62-81. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12546)
McNeill, F. (2023) Rehabilitation, recognition and misrecognition. Kriminologia, 3(2), pp. 109-120. (doi: 10.54332/krim.138656)
Buchan, J. and McNeill, F. (2023) Progressive penality as performance. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(3), pp. 325-340. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12516)
McNeill, F. (2023) Beyond the individual: correcting corrections. Journal of Community Justice, 32(2), pp. 5-11.
Casey, R., McNeill, F. , Barkas, B. , Cornish, N., Gormley, C. and Schinkel, M. (2021) Pervasive punishment in a pandemic. Probation Journal, 68(4), pp. 476-492. (doi: 10.1177/02645505211050871)
Thomas, P. C. , McNeill, F. , Cathcart Froden, L., Collinson Scott, J., Escobar, O. and Urie, A. (2021) Re-writing punishment? Songs and narrative problem-solving. Incarceration, 2(1), (doi: 10.1177/26326663211000239)
McNeill, F. and Urie, A. (2020) Collaboration before collaborative research: the development of ‘Distant Voices’. Methodological Innovations, 13(2), pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1177/2059799120937270)
McNeill, F. (2020) Penal and welfare conditionality: discipline or degradation? Social Policy and Administration, 54(2), pp. 295-310. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12549)
Crockett Thomas, P. , Collinson Scott, J., McNeill, F. , Escobar, O., Cathcart Froden, L. and Urie, A. (2020) Mediating punishment? Prisoners’ songs as relational ‘problem-solving’ devices. Law Text Culture, 24(1), 7.
Urie, A., McNeill, F. , Cathcart Frödén, L., Collinson-Scott, J., Crockett Thomas, P. , Escobar, O., Macleod, S. and McKerracher, G. (2019) Reintegration, hospitality and hostility: song-writing and song-sharing in criminal justice. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 3(1), pp. 77-101. (doi: 10.5617/jea.6914)
Happer, C. , McGuinness, P., McNeill, F. and Tiripelli, G. (2019) Punishment, legitimacy and taste: the role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions. Crime, Media, Culture, 15(2), pp. 301-321. (doi: 10.1177/1741659018773848)
McNeill, F. (2019) Contesting probation in Scotland: how an agnostic perspective travels. Law and Social Enquiry, 44(3), pp. 814-821. (doi: 10.1017/lsi.2019.33)
McNeill, F. (2019) Mass supervision, misrecognition and the ‘Malopticon’. Punishment and Society, 21(2), pp. 207-230. (doi: 10.1177/1462474518755137)
McNeill, F. (2018) Rehabilitation, corrections and society: the 2017 ICPA Distinguished Scholar Lecture. Advancing Corrections Journal, 5, pp. 10-20.
McNeill, F. , Mark, , Thomas, O. and Thornden-Edwards, K. (2018) Helping, holding, hurting: a conversation about supervision. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 57(1), pp. 94-106. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12240)
McNeill, F. (2017) Post-script: Guide, guard and glue – Electronic monitoring and penal supervision. European Journal of Probation, 9(1), pp. 103-107. (doi: 10.1177/2066220317700544)
Kirkwood, S. and McNeill, F. (2015) Integration and reintegration: comparing pathways to citizenship through asylum and criminal justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 15(5), pp. 511-526. (doi: 10.1177/1748895815575618)
Grant, S. and McNeill, F. (2015) What matters in practice? Understanding 'quality' in the routine supervision of offenders in Scotland. British Journal of Social Work, 45(7), pp. 1985-2002. (doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcu056)
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2015) Lifelines: desistance, social relations, and reciprocity. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 42(1), pp. 95-107. (doi: 10.1177/0093854814550031)
McNeill, F. and Dawson, M. (2014) Social solidarity, penal evolution and probation. British Journal of Criminology, 54(5), pp. 892-907. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu042)
Grant, S. and McNeill, F. (2014) The quality of probation supervision: comparing practitioner accounts in England and Scotland. European Journal of Probation, 6(2), pp. 147-168. (doi: 10.1177/2066220314542942)
Robinson, G., Priede, C., Farrall, S., Shapland, J. and McNeill, F. (2014) Understanding 'quality' in probation practice: frontline perspectives in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(2), pp. 123-142. (doi: 10.1177/1748895813483763)
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2013) Discovering desistance: reconfiguring criminal justice? Scottish Justice Matters, 1(2), pp. 3-6.
Robinson, G., Priede, C., Farrall, S., Shapland, J. and McNeill, F. (2013) Doing 'strengths-based' research: appreciative Inquiry in a probation setting. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13(1), pp. 3-20. (doi: 10.1177/1748895812445621)
McNeill, F. (2013) Transforming rehabilitation: evidence, values and ideology. British Journal of Community Justice, 11(2/3), pp. 83-87.
McNeill, F. (2012) Counterblast: a Copernican correction for community sentences? Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 51(1), pp. 94-99. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00699.x)
McNeill, F. (2012) Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 17(1), pp. 18-36. (doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02039.x)
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2012) Reexamining evidence-based practice in community corrections: beyond 'a confined view' of what works. Justice Research and Policy, 14(1), pp. 35-60. (doi: 10.3818/JRP.14.1.2012.35)
McNeill, F. , Anderson, K., Colvin, S., Overy, K., Sparks, R. and Tett, L. (2011) Inspiring desistance? Arts projects and 'what works?'. Justitiele Verkenningen, 37(5), pp. 80-101.
McNeill, F. (2011) Probation, credibility and justice. Probation Journal, 58(1), pp. 9-22. (doi: 10.1177/0264550510388969)
McNeill, F. , Anderson, K., Colvin, S., Overy, K., Sparks, R. and Tett, L. (2011) Kunstprojecten en What Works; een stimulans voor desistance? [Inspiring desistance? Arts projects and 'what works'?]. Justitiele Verkenningen, 37(5), pp. 80-101.
Leverick, F. , Chalmers, J. , Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2010) Part of the establishment? A decade of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Scots Law Times(27), pp. 147-151.
McNeill, F. , Bracken, D. and Clarke, A. (2010) Social Work, Criminal Justice and their Reconfiguring Relationships. Revista de Asistenta Sociala, 8(1), pp. 114-124.
McNeill, F. , Burns, N. , Halliday, S., Hutton, N. and Tata, C. (2009) Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: penal adaptation and misadaptation. Punishment and Society, 11(4), pp. 419-442. (doi: 10.1177/1462474509341153)
Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2009) Choice versus crisis: how Scotland could transform the way we think about prisons and punishment. Criminal Justice Matters, 75(1), pp. 2-4. (doi: 10.1080/09627250802699632)
Halliday, S., Burns, N. , Hutton, N., McNeill, F. and Tata, C. (2009) Street-level bureaucracy, interprofessional relations, and coping mechanisms: a study of criminal justice social workers in the sentencing process. Law and Policy, 31(4), pp. 405-428. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9930.2009.00306.x)
McNeill, F. (2009) Probation, rehabilitation and reparation. Irish Probation Journal, 6, pp. 5-22.
McNeill, F. (2009) What works and what’s just? European Journal of Probation, 1(1), pp. 21-40.
McNeill, F. (2009) What Works in Probation? Proces: Tijdschrift voor Strafrechtspleging, 88(3), pp. 129-146.
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2008) Exploring the dynamics of compliance with community penalties. Theoretical Criminology, 12(4), pp. 431-449. (doi: 10.1177/1362480608097151)
Halliday, S., Burns, N., Hutton, N., McNeill, F. and Tata, C. (2008) Shadow writing and participant observation: a study of criminal justice social work around sentencing. Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), pp. 189-213. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2008.00435.x)
McCulloch, T. and McNeill, F. (2007) Consumer society, commodification and offender management. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7(3), pp. 223-242. (doi: 10.1177/1748895807078863)
Burnett, R., Batchelor, S. and McNeill, F. (2006) Reducing reoffending: Lessons from psychotherapy and counselling. Criminal Justice Matters, 61(41), pp. 32-41.
McNeill, F. (2006) A desistance paradigm for offender management. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6(1), pp. 39-62. (doi: 10.1177/1748895806060666)
Burnett, R. and McNeill, F. (2005) The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime. Probation Journal, 52(3), pp. 221-242. (doi: 10.1177/0264550505055112)
McNeill, F. (2005) Remembering probation in Scotland. Probation Journal, 52(1), pp. 23-38. (doi: 10.1177/0264550505050624)
McNeill, F. (2004) Desistance, rehabilitation and correctionalism: developments and prospects in Scotland. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(4), pp. 420-436. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2004.00339.x)
McNeill, F. (2004) Supporting desistance in probation practice: a response Maruna, Porter and Carvalho. Probation Journal, 51(3), pp. 241-247. (doi: 10.1177/0264550504046746)
McNeill, F. (2004) Correctionalism, desistance and the future of probation in Ireland. Irish Probation Journal, 1(1), pp. 28-43.
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S.A. (2002) Chaos, containment and change: responding to persistent offending by young people. Youth Justice, 2(1), pp. 27-43. (doi: 10.1177/147322540200200104)
McNeill, F. (2001) Developing effectiveness: frontline perspectives. Social Work Education, 20(6), pp. 671-687. (doi: 10.1080/02615470120089843)
McNeill, F. (2000) Defining effective probation: frontline perspectives. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 39(4), pp. 382-397. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2311.00177)
McNeill, F. (2000) Making criminology work: theory and practice in local context. Probation Journal, 47(2), pp. 108-118. (doi: 10.1177/026455050004700204)
McNeill, F. (2000) Measuring effectiveness: linking policy, research and practice. Probation Journal, 47(1), pp. 4-11. (doi: 10.1177/026455050004700102)
McNeill, F. (1995) What is to be done? Probation Journal, 42(3), pp. 146-151. (doi: 10.1177/026455059504200304)
Books
Burke, L., Collett, S. and McNeill, F. (2018) Reimagining Rehabilitation: Beyond the individual. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138233188 (doi: 10.4324/9781315310176)
McNeill, F. (2018) Pervasive Punishment: Making Sense of Mass Supervision. Emerald: Bingley. ISBN 9781787564664
Taylor, R., Hill, M. and McNeill, F. (2011) 21st Century Social Work: A Resource for Early Professional Development. Venture Press.
McNeill, F. and Whyte, B. (2007) Reducing Reoffending: Social Work and Community Justice in Scotland. Willan: Cullompton, UK. ISBN 9781843922186
McNeill, F., Batchelor, S. , Burnett, R. and Knox, J. (2005) 21st Century Social Work: Reducing Re-Offending: Key Practice Skills. Scottish Executive: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780755945696
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2004) Persistent Offending by Young People: Developing Practice. Series: Issues in community and criminal justice (3). National Association of Probation Officers: London, UK. ISBN 9780901617187
Book Sections
McNeill, F. , Thomas, P. C. , Frödén, L. C., Collinson Scott, J., Escobar, O. and Urie, A. (2022) Time after time: imprisonment, re-entry and enduring temporariness. In: Carr, N. and Robinson, G. (eds.) Time and Punishment: New Contexts and Perspectives. Series: Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-201. ISBN 9783031121081 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12108-1_7)
Anderson, S. and McNeill, F. (2019) Desistance and cognitive transformations. In: Farrington, D. P., Kazemian, L. and Piquero, A. R. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190201371
McIvor, G., Graham, H. and McNeill, F. (2018) Prisoner resettlement in Scotland. In: Dünkel, F., Pruin, I., Storgaard, A. and Weber, J. (eds.) Prisoner Resettlement in Europe. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138721234
McNeill, F. and Graham, H. (2018) Resettlement, reintegration and desistance in Europe. In: Dünkel, F., Pruin, I., Storgaard, A. and Weber, J. (eds.) Prisoner Resettlement in Europe. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138721234
Fitzgibbon, W., Graebsch, C. and McNeill, F. (2017) Pervasive punishment: experiencing supervision. In: Brown, M. and Carrabine, E. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138888630
Liebling, A., McNeill, F. and Schmidt, B. E. (2017) Criminological engagements. In: Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [6th ed.]. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198719441
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2017) Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion and moderation. In: Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology [6th ed.]. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198719441
Nugent, B. and McNeill, F. (2017) Young people and desistance. In: Furlong, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood [2nd ed.]. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge, pp. 411-420. ISBN 9781138804357
McNeill, F. (2016) The collateral consequences of risk. In: Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice. Palgrave. ISBN 9781137441324
Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (2016) Changing risks, risking change. In: Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice. Palgrave. ISBN 9781137441324
Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (2016) Introduction: questions, questions, questions. In: Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (eds.) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 1-7. ISBN 9781137519801 (print) 9781137519825 (online) (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_1)
McNeill, F. (2016) The fuel in the tank or the hole in the boat? Can sanctions support desistance. In: Shapland, J., Farrall, S. and Bottoms, A. (eds.) Global Perspectives On Desistance: Rethinking What We Know and Looking to the Future. Routledge: Oxford, pp. 265-281. ISBN 9781138851009
McNeill, F. (2016) What (good) is punishment? In: Farrall, S., Goldson, B., Loader, I. and Dockley, A. (eds.) Justice and Penal Reform: Reshaping the penal landscape. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138191075
McNeill, F. , Butter, R. and Durnescu, I. (2016) Conclusion: the 12th question. In: Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (eds.) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 263-274. ISBN 9781137519801 (print) 9781137519825 (online) (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_13)
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2016) Explaining probation. In: Durnescu, I., McNeill, F. and Butter, R. (eds.) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 245-261. ISBN 9781137519801 (print) 9781137519825 (online) (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_12)
McNeill, F. and Schinkel, M. (2016) Prisons and desistance. In: Jewkes, Y., Crewe, B. and Bennett, J. (eds.) Handbook on Prisons. 2nd edition. Routledge: London, pp. 607-621. ISBN 9780415745659
McNeill, F. (2015) Desistance and criminal justice in Scotland. In: Croall, H., Mooney, G. and Munro, M. (eds.) Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415750301
McNeill, F. (2015) Positive criminology, positive criminal justice? In: Ronel, N. and Sergev, D. (eds.) Positive Criminology. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice (23). Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415748568
McNeill, F. (2015) Reductionism, rehabilitation and reparation: community punishment in Scotland. In: Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Community Punishment: European Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138818644
McNeill, F. (2014) Punishment as rehabilitation. In: Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer: New York, pp. 4195-4206. ISBN 9781461456896 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_347)
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2014) Desistance and supervision. In: Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer: New York, pp. 958-967. ISBN 9781461456896 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_29)
Burke, L. and McNeill, F. (2013) The devil in the detail: community sentences, probation and the market. In: Dockley, A. and Loader, I. (eds.) The Penal Landscape: The Howard League Guide to Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415823289
McNeill, F. (2013) Community sanctions and European penology. In: Daems, T., Snacken, S. and Van Zyl Smit, D. (eds.) European Penology. Series: Oñati international series in law and society. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781849462334
McNeill, F. (2013) Changing lives, changing work: social work and criminal justice. In: Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Understanding Penal Practice. Taylor and Francis: London, pp. 167-178. ISBN 9780203087220 (doi: 10.4324/9780203087220)
Shapland, J., Sorsby, A., Robinson, G., Priede, C., Farrall, S. and McNeill, F. (2013) What quality means to probation staff in England in relation to one- to-one supervision. In: Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Understanding Penal Practice. Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice. Taylor and Francis: London, pp. 139-152. ISBN 9780203087220 (doi: 10.4324/9780203087220)
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2012) Liquid legitimacy and community sanctions. In: Crawford, A. and Hucklesby, A. (eds.) Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice. Routledge: Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415671552
McNeill, F. (2012) Probation et sortie de delinquance: qu’est-ce qui fonctionne et qu’est-ce qui est equitable? In: Mohammad, M. (ed.) Les sorties de delinquance: Theories, methods, enquetes. La Decouverte: Paris. ISBN 9782707169938
Robinson, G., McNeill, F. and Maruna, S. (2012) Punishment in society: the improbable persistence of probation and other community sanctions and measures. In: Simon, J. and Sparks, R. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society. Sage. ISBN 9781848606753
Snacken, S. and McNeill, F. (2012) Scientific recommendations. In: Flore, D., Bosly, S., Honhon, A. and Maggio, J. (eds.) Probation Measures and Alternative Sanctions in the European Union. Intersentia: Cambridge. ISBN 9781780680439
McNeill, F. (2011) Determined to punish? Scotland's choice. In: Hassan, G. and Ilett, R. (eds.) Radical Scotland : arguments for self-determination. Series: Viewpoints. Luath Press Limited: Edinburgh, pp. 128-142. ISBN 9781906817947
Burman, M. , Johnstone, J., Fraser, A. and McNeill, F. (2010) Scotland. In: Dünkel, F., Grzywal, P., Horsfield, P. and Pruin, I. (eds.) Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe - Current Situation and Reform Developments. Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH: Mönchengladbach, pp. 1149-1194. ISBN 9783936999754
Farrall, S. and McNeill, F. (2010) Desistance and social work. In: Herzog-Evans, M. and Dréan-Rivette, I. (eds.) Transnational Criminology Manual. Wolf Legal Publishers. ISBN 9789058505736
McNeill, F. (2010) Supervision in historical context: Learning the lessons of (oral) history. In: McNeill, F., Raynor, P. and Trotter, C. (eds.) Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice. Willan: Cullompton.
McNeill, F. (2010) Youth justice: policy, research and evidence. In: Johnstone, J. and Burman, M. (eds.) Youth Justice. Series: Practice & policy in health and social care (9). Dunedin Academic Press, pp. 43-59. ISBN 9781903765913
McNeill, F. , Bracken, D. and Clarke, A. (2010) Social work and criminal justice. In: Shaw, I., Briar-Lawson, K., Orme, J. and Ruckdeschel, R. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Social Work Research. Sage. ISBN 9781412934985
Munro, M. and McNeill, F. (2010) Fines, community sanctions and measures. In: Croall, H., Mooney, G. and Munro, M. (eds.) Criminal Justice in Scotland. Willan: Collumpton, UK. ISBN 9781843927860
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2010) Probation in the UK. In: Herzog-Evans, M. and Dréan-Rivette, I. (eds.) Transnational Criminology Manual. Wolf Legal Publishers. ISBN 9789058505736
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2010) Public protection in Scotland. In: Williams, A. and Nash, M. (eds.) Handbook of Public Protection. Willan. ISBN 9781843928515
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2010) Travelling hopefully: desistance research and probation practice. In: Brayford, J., Cowe, F. and Deering, J. (eds.) What Else Works?: Creative Work with Offenders. Willan: Cullompton. ISBN 9781843927662
McNeill, F. (2009) Supervising young offenders: what works and what’s right. In: Barry, M. and McNeill, F. (eds.) Youth Offending and Youth Justice. Series: Research highlights (52). Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 132-153. ISBN 9781843106890
McNeill, F. (2009) Young people, serious offending and managing risk : a scottish perspective. In: Baker, K. and Sutherland, A. (eds.) Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements And Youth Justice. Series: Researching criminal justice series. Policy Press. ISBN 9781847422156
McCulloch, T. and McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance-focused approaches. In: Green, S., Lancaster, E. and Feasey, S. (eds.) Addressing Offending Behaviour: Context, Practice and Values. Willan Publishing: Cullompton, pp. 154-171. ISBN 9781843922438
McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (2008) Developments in probation in Scotland. In: McIvor, G. and Raynor, P. (eds.) Developments in Social Work with Offenders. Series: Research highlights in social work (48). Jessica Kingsley: London, pp. 82-98. ISBN 9781843105381
McNeill, F. and Maruna, S. (2008) Giving up and giving back: desistance, generativity and social work with offenders. In: McIvor, G. and Raynor, P. (eds.) Developments in Social Work with Offenders. Series: Research highlights in social work (48). Jessica Kingsley: London, pp. 224-339. ISBN 9781843105381
McNeill, F. (2008) Social work, payback and punishment. In: Lightowler, C. and Hare, D. (eds.) Prisons and Sentencing Reform: Developing policy in Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, pp. 18-21.
McNeill, F. (2008) Young People, Serious Offending and Managing Risk: A Scottish Perspective. In: Baker, K. and Sutherland, A. (eds.) Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements and Youth Justice. The Policy Press: Bristol.
McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (2007) Probation in Scotland: past, present and future. In: Gelsthorpe, L. and Morgan, R. (eds.) The Handbook of Probation. Willan: Cullompton, pp. 131-154. ISBN 1843921898
McNeill, F. and McIvor, G. (2007) Scotland: criminal justice social work. In: Canton, R. and Hancock, D. (eds.) The Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management. Willan: Cullompton, pp. 280-282. ISBN 9781843922896
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2007) Desistance. In: Godson, B. (ed.) Dictionary of Youth Justice. Willan: Cullompton. ISBN 9781843922940
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2007) Desistance. In: Canton, R. and Hancock, D. (eds.) The Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management. Willan: Cullompton, Devon, pp. 90-92. ISBN 9781843922896
Burman, M., Bradshaw, P., Hutton, N., McNeill, F. and Munro, M. (2006) The end of an era? Youth justice in Scotland. In: Junger-Tas, J. and Scott, H.D. (eds.) International Handbook of Juvenile Justice. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 435-467. ISBN 9781402044007
McNeill, F. (2006) Community supervision: context and relationships matter. In: Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (eds.) Youth Crime and Justice: Critical Issues. Sage: London, pp. 125-138. ISBN 9781412911375
Batchelor, S. and McNeill, F. (2005) Offending. In: Smith, M., Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care: Glasgow, UK, pp. 216-221. ISBN 9781900743235
Batchelor, S.A. and McNeill, F. (2005) The young person-worker relationship. In: Bateman, T. and Pitts, J. (eds.) Russell House Companion to Youth Justice. Russell House Publishing: London. ISBN 9781903855492
Smith, M., Forrest, B., McNeill, F. and McMillan, N. (2005) Historical and policy context of secure accommodation. In: Smith, M., Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care: Glasgow, UK, pp. 8-23. ISBN 9781900743235
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2004) Purposes matters: examining the ends of probation. In: What Matters in Probation. Willan: Cullompton, pp. 277-304. ISBN 978184392052
Smith, M., McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2004) Risk assessment. In: Forrest, B., Garland, P. and Hunter, L. (eds.) Secure in the Knowledge: Perspectives on Practice in Secure Accommodation. Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care: Glasgow, pp. 1-7. ISBN 190074323X
McNeill, F. (2003) Desistance-focused probation practice. In: Chui, W.H. and Nellis, M. (eds.) Moving Probation Forward: Evidence, Arguments and Practice. Pearson: Harlow, UK, pp. 146-162. ISBN 9780582472778
McNeill, F. (2002) Assisting sentencing, promoting justice? In: Tata, C. and Hutton, N. (eds.) Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 429-451. ISBN 9780754621836
Book Reviews
McNeill, F. (2022) Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Miller R. Punishment and Society, (doi: 10.1177/14624745221114157)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)
McNeill, F. (2015) Rethinking what helps? Beyond probation and desistance. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(3), pp. 311-312. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12132_1)[Book Review]
McNeill, F.E. (2009) Review: 'Poor discipline: parole and the social control of the underclass 1890–1990' by Jonathan Simon and 'Supervising offenders in the community: a history of probation theory and practice' by Maurice Vanstone. Probation Journal, 56(2), pp. 190-193. (doi: 10.1177/02645505090560020302)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Burke, L., Carr, N., Cluley, E., Collett, S. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2022) Reimagining Probation Practice: Re-forming Rehabilitation in an Age of Penal Excess. Routledge. ISBN 9780367775995
Ugwudike, P., Graham, H., McNeill, F. , Raynor, P., Taxman, F. S. and Trotter, C. (Eds.) (2019) The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice. Routledge. ISBN 9781138102057
Trotter, C., McIvor, G. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2016) Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice. Series: Beyond the risk paradigm. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137441324
McNeill, F. , Durnescu, I. and Butter, R. (Eds.) (2016) Probation: 12 Essential Questions. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781137519801
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2015) Community Punishment: European Perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138818644
McNeill, F. and Beyens, K. (Eds.) (2013) Offender Supervision in Europe. Palgrave: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137379177
Durnescu, I. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2013) Understanding Penal Practice. Series: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415635813
McNeill, F. , Raynor, P. and Trotter, C. (Eds.) (2010) Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice. Willan: Cullompton. ISBN 9781843929369
Barry, M. and McNeill, F. (Eds.) (2009) Youth Offending and Youth Justice. Series: Research highlights. Jessica Kingsley: London. ISBN 9781843106890
Research Reports or Papers
Armstrong, S. , Barkas, B. , Casey, R. , Cornish, N., Gormley, C. , McNeill, F. and Schinkel, M. (2022) Prisoner experiences of Covid-19 Restrictions in Scotland during 2020. Working Paper. University of Glasgow.
Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
McNeill, F. (2017) Supervisible: Experiences of Criminal Justice in Scotland. Other. The Howard League for Penal Reform, London.
McGuinness, P., McNeill, F. and Armstrong, S. (2013) The use and impact of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974): final report. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow.
Armstrong, S. , McIvor, G., McNeill, F. and McGuinness, P. (2012) International Evidence Review of Conditional (Suspended) Sentences: Final Report. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow, UK.
Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2012) Reducing Reoffending: Review of Selected Countries. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), Glasgow.
McNeill, F. , Farrall, S., Lightowler, C. and Maruna, S. (2012) How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance. Other. Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services.
Shapland, J., Bottoms, A., Farrall, S., McNeill, F. , Priede, C. and Robinson, G. (2012) The Quality of Probation Supervision: A Literature Review. Project Report. Centre for Criminological Research: University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
McNeill, F. , Burnett, R. and McCulloch, T. (2010) Culture, Change and Community Justice. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Criminal Justice, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
McNeill, F. and Weaver, B. (2010) Changing Lives? Desistance Research and Offender Management. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/pubs/Changing-Lives-Desistance-Research-and-Offender-Management/255).
Leverick, F. , Chalmers, J. , Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2009) Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission: 10th Anniversary Research. Project Report. Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, Glasgow, UK.
McNeill, F. (2009) Towards Effective Practice in Offender Supervision. Discussion Paper. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Sparks, R. and McNeill, F. (2009) Incarceration, Social Control and Human Rights. Project Report. International Council on Human Rights Policy. (doi: http://www.ichrp.org/files/papers/175/punishment_and_incarceration_sparks_and_mcneill.pdf).
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2008) Audit of Youth Crime in North Ayrshire. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Conference Proceedings
McNeill, F. and Maruna, S. (2010) Paying Back and Trading Up: Reforming Character. In: European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Liege, 8-10 September, 2010, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Scotland's Choice: Evidence, Policy and Policy-Making? In: Re-imagining the Role of Prison in Irish Society, Dublin Castle, Dublin, 18 Jun 2009,
McNeill, F. (2009) The desistance paradigm and the revival of offender rehabilitation. In: Address at the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 31 March 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Desistance theory: why do some people stop committing crimes? In: Annual conference of the Staff Academy of the Norwegian Correctional Services (KRUS), Oslo,
McNeill, F. (2009) Effective practice: why literacies are important for offenders. In: Pathways Through Learning, Edinburgh,
McNeill, F. (2009) Helping, holding, hurting: recalling and reforming punishment. In: The 6th Annual Apex Lecture, Edinburgh, 8th September 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Hysteresis and reconfiguration: narratives of risk and responsibility in pre-sentence reports. In: 2nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions,
McNeill, F. (2009) Probation, rehabilitation and reparation. In: 2nd Annual Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture, Dublin, May 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Recalling Supervision: Learning the Lessons of (Oral) History. In: 3rd Annual Meeting of Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS), Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, 4-5 September, 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2009) Social capital theory into practice: desistance - What makes a difference? In: Prison Leavers’ Health: Opportunities and Prospects, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh,
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2009) Liquid Legitimacy: Negotiating Compliance with Community Sanctions. In: International Symposium on Legitimacy and Compliance and Criminal Justice, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, England, 25-26 June, 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Weaver, B. (2009) Partial stories: recollecting Scottish probation in the 1960s. In: 9th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Ljubljana,
Weaver, B. and McNeill, F. (2009) Travelling Hopefully: Desistance Research and Probation Practice. In: 9th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Ljubljana, 9-12 September, 2009, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Benefits and Challenges of Alternative Sentencing. In: Two-day seminar on Alternative Sentencing for the Cayman Islands Government, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands,
McNeill, F. (2008) Beyond risk and need: Good lives for every child. In: National Association for Youth Justice Annual Conference, Newport, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance research and interventions practice. In: Scottish Prison Service Annual Conference, Clydebank, UK, 18 - 19 Sep 2008, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance research and offender supervision. In: Invitational Conference de Betekens van de Levensloopbenadering Voor de Reclassering, Hogeschool Utrecht, 24th October, 2008, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Desistance theory and reducing criminality. In: ‘Addressing Criminality’ an invited presentation at a Home Office/Ministry of Justice/British Society of Criminology Symposium, King’s College, London, 15 Dec 2008, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2008) Public opinion, punishment and payback. In: Beyond McLeish: New Ideas, Lasting Solutions’ a Holyrood Communications Conference, Edinburgh, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) Veterans and villains: Oral history and penological research. In: British Society of Criminology’s annual conference, Huddersfield, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) Veterans' voices: Oral histories of Scottish probation. In: European Society of Criminology’s annual conference, Edinburgh, UK,
McNeill, F. (2008) What works in probation? In: European Conference of Directors of Probation Services, Strasbourg, France,
McNeill, F. and Halliday, S. (2008) The local rep and the Royal Shakespeare Company: Problems of identity and capital for social workers as actors in the criminal justice system. In: ESRC Seminar: The effects of professionals' human and cultural capital for interprofessional social capital, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (Unpublished)
Hutton, N. and McNeill, F. (2007) Social Workers as Sentencers: Professional Tensions and Insecurities. In: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Bologna, 26-28 September, 2007, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2007) Hysteresis, Risk and Redemption: Social Enquiry and the New Penology. In: Law and Society Annual Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 25-28 July, 2007, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2007) Hysteresis, Risk and Redemption: Social Enquiry and the New Penology. In: British Society of Criminology's Annual Conference, London School of Economics, London, England, 18-20 September, 2007, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Robinson, G. (2007) Rethinking Compliance. In: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Bologna, 26-28 September, 2007, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2006) Desistance, Social Capital and Community Penalties. In: 6th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, University of Tubingen, Germany, 26-29 August, 2006, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Burns, N. (2006) Navigating the Margins: Influencing Sentencing Through Social Enquiry. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Law School, University of Stirling, Scotland, 28-30 March, 2006, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Burns, N. (2005) Redemption and Risk: Social Enquiry and the New Penology. In: Re-awakening the Criminological Imagination. British Society of Criminology Conference, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, England, 12-14 July, 2005, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and McCulloch, P. (2005) Commodification of Probation. In: Re-awakening the Criminological Imagination. The British Society of Criminology Conference, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, England, 12-14 July, 2005, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (2004) Probation in Scotland: From Welfare to Correctionalism? In: Global Similarities, Local Differences. 4th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25-28 August, 2004, (Unpublished)
Robinson, G. and McNeill, F. (2002) Probation and Meta-narrative: Exploring the Ideological Purposes of Contemporary Probation Practice. In: Crossing Borders. British Society of Criminology Conference, Keele University, 17-20 July, 2002, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. and Batchelor, S. (2001) Chaos, Containment and Change: Undertaking a Local Analysis of the Problems of Persistent Offending by Young People. In: Villains and Victims: Children and the Penal System. The Howard League Annual Conference, New College, Oxford, 11-12 September, 2001,
McNeill, F. (2000) North and South: Changing Ideologies of Probation in Mainland Britain. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leicester, England, 5-7 July, 2000, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (1999) An Aid to Sentencing? Five Years of Social Enquiry. In: Sentencing and Society: an International Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 24-26 June 1999, (Unpublished)
McNeill, F. (1999) Soft Options and Hard Cases: Public Attitudes, Social Inclusion and Probation. In: 17th Annual Conference of the Howard League for Penal Reform, New College, Oxford, 15-16 September, 1999, (Unpublished)
Audio
McNeill, F. (2011) Supporting Desistance from Crime: Reconfiguring Penal Practice. [Audio]
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