Professor Sarah Armstrong
- Professor (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
- Elected Academic Staff members on Court (Academic Services)
telephone:
01413307715
email:
Sarah.Armstrong@glasgow.ac.uk
R315 Level 3, Sccjr, Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2049-9614Biography
My research focuses on prisons, prisoners and criminal justice exploring questions about the governance, organisation, representation and experiences of punishment. A key strand of my research is on policy as a key site and source of culture, and in the specific bureaucratic qualities and logics that arise in penal institutions. To explore such issues I draw on diverse methods (ethnography, statistical analysis, semiotics, discourse and metaphor analysis, evaluation) and theoretical sources (anthropology of policy, human geography, ANT/STS, critical theory).
I am currently working on a project called Paper Cuts: Prisons, Bureaucracy and Violence, exploring structural and administrative violence in prison and relating this to bureaucratic forms of organisation generally.
During COVID-19, I co-led the Scotland in Lockdown study, as part of a large team conducting rapid research on the impact of lockdown for groups already facing isolation (June 2020-Feb 2021). The study was funded by the Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government.
I was Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (2016-19). I have a BA in history from Carleton College (Minnesota, USA); and a JD and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. I have been a visiting fellow at the Unviersity of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley.
I am Co-editor in Chief of the journal Crime Media Culture with Katherine Bieber and Travis Linneman
Research interests
Research groups
Publications
2024
Armstrong, S. , Barkas, B. , Allan, L., Allan, S. and Cairns, D. (2024) Nothing to See Here? Deaths in Custody and FAIs in Scotland 2023. [Research Reports or Papers]
Pickering, L. and Armstrong, S. (2024) Connected by Isolations: overlaps, refractions and difference in a four-fold view of lockdown inequality in Scotland. In: Abram, Simone, Lambert, Helen and Robinson, Jude (eds.) How to Live Through a Pandemic. Series: ASA Monographs. Routledge. ISBN 9781032397801
2023
Armstrong, S. (2023) Crisis or opportunity? International income growth in Scottish universities during Covid-19. Scottish Affairs, 32(4), pp. 425-448. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2023.0474)
Armstrong, S. (2023) Profiting from pandemic? Scottish Universities during Covid-19. Preprints.org, 2023060832. (doi: 10.20944/preprints202306.0832.v1)
Armstrong, S. and Pickering, L. (2023) A difference of sameness: Home as a site of research in a study of Covid inequalities in Scotland. In: How to Live through a Pandemic (ASA Monograph 2020). Series: ASA conference monograph series. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK. (In Press)
2022
Armstrong, S. , Allan, L., Cairns, D., Allan, S. and Barkas, B. (2022) Still nothing to see here? One year update on prison deaths and FAI outcomes in Scotland. [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. [Research Reports or Papers]
2021
Armstrong, S. , Allan, L., Allan, S., Barkas, B. and Kinnear, D. (2021) Nothing to See Here?: Statistical Briefing on 15 Years of FAIs into Deaths in Custody. [Research Reports or Papers]
Barkas, B. , Allan, L., Allan, S., Armstrong, S. and Kinnear, D. (2021) A Defective System: Case Analysis of 15 Years of Fatal Accident Inquiries After Deaths in Prison. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Fletcher, M. (2021) 'It starts with conversations': Civic Engagement in the College of Social Sciences. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , Biber, K. and Linneman, T. (2021) Catching our breath: reading the pandemic through crime, media and culture. Crime Media Culture, 17(1), pp. 3-5. (doi: 10.1177/1741659020952586)
Armstrong, S. and Sokhi Watson, D. (2021) Early impact of Covid-19 restrictions on Muslim & Black minority ethnic women in Scotland: analysis of survey data. [Research Reports or Papers]
2020
Armstrong, S. , McCulloch, P., Weaver, B. and Reed, D. (2020) Measuring Justice: Defining Concepts, Developing Practice. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Pickering, L. (2020) Scotland in Lockdown: How Have COVID-19 Measures Affected Your Life? [Website]
Armstrong, S. (2020) At risk of rights: rehabilitation, sentence management and the structural violence of prison. Critical Criminology, 28(1), pp. 85-105. (doi: 10.1007/s10612-020-09503-7)
2019
Batchelor, S. , Armstrong, S. and MacLellan, D. (2019) Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and McGhee, J. (2019) Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People in Custody: Evidence Review. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Reilly, J. (2019) Analysis of EuroPris Survey on Prison Education in Europe. [Research Reports or Papers]
2018
Armstrong, S. (2018) The problem of punishment in a progressive society. Europe Now, 8 Nov.
Armstrong, S. (2018) Securing prison through human rights: unanticipated implications of rights-based penal governance. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 57(3), pp. 401-421. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12270)
Armstrong, S. (2018) The cell and the corridor: imprisonment as waiting, and waiting as mobile. Time and Society, 27(2), pp. 133-154. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X15587835)
2017
Armstrong, S. and Munro, M. (2017) Scotland the Just? The SNP, crime and justice. In: Hassan, Gerry and Barrow, Simon (eds.) A Nation Changed?: The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On. Luath Press: Edinburgh, pp. 136-141. ISBN 9781912147168
Armstrong, S. (2017) Seeing and seeing-as: building a politics of visibility in criminology. In: Brown, Michelle and Carrabine, Eamonn (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 416-426. ISBN 9781138888630
Armstrong, S. and Jefferson, A. (2017) Disavowing 'the' prison. In: Moran, Dominique and Schliehe, Aanna K. (eds.) Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology. Series: Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 237-267. ISBN 9781137560575 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_9)
2016
Armstrong, S. , Blaustein, J. and Henry, A. (Eds.) (2016) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137546418
Armstrong, S. , Blaustein, J. and Henry, A. (2016) Impact and the reflexive imperative in criminal justice policy, practice and research. In: Armstrong, Sarah, Blaustein, Jarrett and Henry, Alistair (eds.) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781137546418 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54642-5_1)
Armstrong, S. and Lam, A. (2016) Policy as a Crime Scene. In: Armstrong, Sarah, Blaustein, Jarrett and Henry, Alistair (eds.) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 101-122. ISBN 9781137546425 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54642-5_5)
2015
Gormley, C. , McBride, M., Armstrong, S. and Atkinson, C. (2015) Hate Crime in Scotland: a Scoping Study for the Glasgow Hate Crime Working Group. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)
2014
Armstrong, S. (2014) Re-thinking the time of punishment: a response to Valverde. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(4), pp. 392-398. (doi: 10.1177/1748895814541900)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Response 1: re-thinking the time of punishment: a response to Valverde. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(4), pp. 392-398. (doi: 10.1177/1748895814541900)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Capacity as philosophy: review of Lippke's Ethics of Plea Bargaining. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 8(1), pp. 265-281. (doi: 10.1007/s11572-013-9272-3)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Siting prisons, sighting communities: geographies of objection in a planning process. Environment and Planning A, 46(3), pp. 550-565. (doi: 10.1068/a45407)
Armstrong, S. and Wills, D. (2014) Circles of support and accountability (COSA) in Scotland: practice, progress and questions. Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, 20, pp. 2-13.
2013
Armstrong, S. and Weaver, E. (2013) Persistent punishment: user views of short prison sentences. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52(3), pp. 285-305. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12015)
McGuinness, P., McNeill, F. and Armstrong, S. (2013) The use and impact of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974): final report. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S.C. (2013) Using the future to predict the past: prison population projections and the colonisation of penal imagination. In: Malloch, M. and Munro, B. (eds.) Crime, Critique and Utopia. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 136-163. ISBN 9781137009791
Malloch, M.S., McIvor, G., Schinkel, M. and Armstrong, S. (2013) The Elements of Effective Through-care - Part 1: International Review. Scottish Government - Community Justice Services. [Research Reports or Papers]
2012
Armstrong, S. and Barton, G. (2012) Reducing Reoffending: Review of Selected Countries: Final Review for Audit Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , McIvor, G., McNeill, F. and McGuinness, P. (2012) International Evidence Review of Conditional (Suspended) Sentences: Final Report. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2012) Reducing Reoffending: Review of Selected Countries. [Research Reports or Papers]
2011
Armstrong, S. , Malloch, M., Norris, P. and Nellis, M. (2011) Evaluation of the Use of Home Detention Curfew and the Open Prison Estate in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. (2011) David Garland, 'Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(3), pp. 490-492. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0066)[Book Review]
2010
Armstrong, S. and Weaver, B. (2010) User Views of Punishment: The comparative experience of short prison sentences and community-based punishments. [Research Reports or Papers]
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.
2009
Leverick, F. , Chalmers, J. , Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2009) Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission: 10th Anniversary Research. [Research Reports or Papers]
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)
Armstrong, S. (2009) Nicola Lacey, 'The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 13(3), pp. 550-551. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980909000821)[Book Review]
Armstrong, S. , Hamilton-Smith, N. and Mackenzie, S. (2009) Measuring Police Impact on Organised Crime: a Review of SCDEA’s Key Performance Indicators. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)
2008
Armstrong, S.C. (2008) Crime pays - but for whom? Scottish Left Review, 48, pp. 8-9.
Armstrong, S. (2008) Fixing Scotland's remand problem. In: Lightowler, C. and Hare, D. (eds.) Prisons and Sentencing Reform: Developing Policy in Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR): Glasgow, UK, pp. 10-14.
Armstrong, S. , Chistyakova, Y., Mackenzie, S. and Malloch, M. (2008) Circles of Support and Accountability: Consideration of the Feasibility of Pilots in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
2007
Armstrong, S.C. (2007) What good are markets in punishment? Prison Service Journal, 172, pp. 1-4.
2006
Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (Eds.) (2006) Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199278763
Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (2006) Audiences, borders, architecture: the contours of control. In: Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780199278763
Armstrong, S.C. and McAra, L. (2006) Audience, borders and architecture: the contours of control. In: Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780199278763
2003
Armstrong, S. (2003) Bureaucracy, Private Prisons, and the Future of Penal Reform. Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 7(1), pp. 275-306.
2002
Armstrong, S. (2002) The emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice. Sociology of Health and Illness, 24(5), pp. 599-620.
Armstrong, S. (2002) Punishing not-for-profit: Implications of nonprofit privatization in juvenile punishment. Punishment and Society, 4(3), pp. 345-368. (doi: 10.1177/146247402400426789)
Articles
Armstrong, S. (2023) Crisis or opportunity? International income growth in Scottish universities during Covid-19. Scottish Affairs, 32(4), pp. 425-448. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2023.0474)
Armstrong, S. (2023) Profiting from pandemic? Scottish Universities during Covid-19. Preprints.org, 2023060832. (doi: 10.20944/preprints202306.0832.v1)
Armstrong, S. , Biber, K. and Linneman, T. (2021) Catching our breath: reading the pandemic through crime, media and culture. Crime Media Culture, 17(1), pp. 3-5. (doi: 10.1177/1741659020952586)
Armstrong, S. (2020) At risk of rights: rehabilitation, sentence management and the structural violence of prison. Critical Criminology, 28(1), pp. 85-105. (doi: 10.1007/s10612-020-09503-7)
Armstrong, S. (2018) The problem of punishment in a progressive society. Europe Now, 8 Nov.
Armstrong, S. (2018) Securing prison through human rights: unanticipated implications of rights-based penal governance. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 57(3), pp. 401-421. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12270)
Armstrong, S. (2018) The cell and the corridor: imprisonment as waiting, and waiting as mobile. Time and Society, 27(2), pp. 133-154. (doi: 10.1177/0961463X15587835)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Re-thinking the time of punishment: a response to Valverde. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(4), pp. 392-398. (doi: 10.1177/1748895814541900)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Response 1: re-thinking the time of punishment: a response to Valverde. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(4), pp. 392-398. (doi: 10.1177/1748895814541900)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Capacity as philosophy: review of Lippke's Ethics of Plea Bargaining. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 8(1), pp. 265-281. (doi: 10.1007/s11572-013-9272-3)
Armstrong, S. (2014) Siting prisons, sighting communities: geographies of objection in a planning process. Environment and Planning A, 46(3), pp. 550-565. (doi: 10.1068/a45407)
Armstrong, S. and Wills, D. (2014) Circles of support and accountability (COSA) in Scotland: practice, progress and questions. Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, 20, pp. 2-13.
Armstrong, S. and Weaver, E. (2013) Persistent punishment: user views of short prison sentences. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52(3), pp. 285-305. (doi: 10.1111/hojo.12015)
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.
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)
Armstrong, S.C. (2008) Crime pays - but for whom? Scottish Left Review, 48, pp. 8-9.
Armstrong, S.C. (2007) What good are markets in punishment? Prison Service Journal, 172, pp. 1-4.
Armstrong, S. (2003) Bureaucracy, Private Prisons, and the Future of Penal Reform. Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 7(1), pp. 275-306.
Armstrong, S. (2002) The emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice. Sociology of Health and Illness, 24(5), pp. 599-620.
Armstrong, S. (2002) Punishing not-for-profit: Implications of nonprofit privatization in juvenile punishment. Punishment and Society, 4(3), pp. 345-368. (doi: 10.1177/146247402400426789)
Book Sections
Pickering, L. and Armstrong, S. (2024) Connected by Isolations: overlaps, refractions and difference in a four-fold view of lockdown inequality in Scotland. In: Abram, Simone, Lambert, Helen and Robinson, Jude (eds.) How to Live Through a Pandemic. Series: ASA Monographs. Routledge. ISBN 9781032397801
Armstrong, S. and Pickering, L. (2023) A difference of sameness: Home as a site of research in a study of Covid inequalities in Scotland. In: How to Live through a Pandemic (ASA Monograph 2020). Series: ASA conference monograph series. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK. (In Press)
Armstrong, S. and Munro, M. (2017) Scotland the Just? The SNP, crime and justice. In: Hassan, Gerry and Barrow, Simon (eds.) A Nation Changed?: The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On. Luath Press: Edinburgh, pp. 136-141. ISBN 9781912147168
Armstrong, S. (2017) Seeing and seeing-as: building a politics of visibility in criminology. In: Brown, Michelle and Carrabine, Eamonn (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 416-426. ISBN 9781138888630
Armstrong, S. and Jefferson, A. (2017) Disavowing 'the' prison. In: Moran, Dominique and Schliehe, Aanna K. (eds.) Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology. Series: Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 237-267. ISBN 9781137560575 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_9)
Armstrong, S. , Blaustein, J. and Henry, A. (2016) Impact and the reflexive imperative in criminal justice policy, practice and research. In: Armstrong, Sarah, Blaustein, Jarrett and Henry, Alistair (eds.) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9781137546418 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54642-5_1)
Armstrong, S. and Lam, A. (2016) Policy as a Crime Scene. In: Armstrong, Sarah, Blaustein, Jarrett and Henry, Alistair (eds.) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 101-122. ISBN 9781137546425 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54642-5_5)
Armstrong, S.C. (2013) Using the future to predict the past: prison population projections and the colonisation of penal imagination. In: Malloch, M. and Munro, B. (eds.) Crime, Critique and Utopia. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 136-163. ISBN 9781137009791
Armstrong, S. (2008) Fixing Scotland's remand problem. In: Lightowler, C. and Hare, D. (eds.) Prisons and Sentencing Reform: Developing Policy in Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR): Glasgow, UK, pp. 10-14.
Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (2006) Audiences, borders, architecture: the contours of control. In: Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780199278763
Armstrong, S.C. and McAra, L. (2006) Audience, borders and architecture: the contours of control. In: Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780199278763
Book Reviews
Armstrong, S. (2011) David Garland, 'Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(3), pp. 490-492. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0066)[Book Review]
Armstrong, S. (2009) Nicola Lacey, 'The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 13(3), pp. 550-551. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980909000821)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Armstrong, S. , Blaustein, J. and Henry, A. (Eds.) (2016) Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137546418
Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (Eds.) (2006) Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199278763
Research Reports or Papers
Armstrong, S. , Barkas, B. , Allan, L., Allan, S. and Cairns, D. (2024) Nothing to See Here? Deaths in Custody and FAIs in Scotland 2023. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , Allan, L., Cairns, D., Allan, S. and Barkas, B. (2022) Still nothing to see here? One year update on prison deaths and FAI outcomes in Scotland. [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. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , Allan, L., Allan, S., Barkas, B. and Kinnear, D. (2021) Nothing to See Here?: Statistical Briefing on 15 Years of FAIs into Deaths in Custody. [Research Reports or Papers]
Barkas, B. , Allan, L., Allan, S., Armstrong, S. and Kinnear, D. (2021) A Defective System: Case Analysis of 15 Years of Fatal Accident Inquiries After Deaths in Prison. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Fletcher, M. (2021) 'It starts with conversations': Civic Engagement in the College of Social Sciences. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Sokhi Watson, D. (2021) Early impact of Covid-19 restrictions on Muslim & Black minority ethnic women in Scotland: analysis of survey data. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , McCulloch, P., Weaver, B. and Reed, D. (2020) Measuring Justice: Defining Concepts, Developing Practice. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. et al. (2020) Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Batchelor, S. , Armstrong, S. and MacLellan, D. (2019) Taking Stock of Violence in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and McGhee, J. (2019) Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People in Custody: Evidence Review. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Reilly, J. (2019) Analysis of EuroPris Survey on Prison Education in Europe. [Research Reports or Papers]
Gormley, C. , McBride, M., Armstrong, S. and Atkinson, C. (2015) Hate Crime in Scotland: a Scoping Study for the Glasgow Hate Crime Working Group. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)
McGuinness, P., McNeill, F. and Armstrong, S. (2013) The use and impact of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974): final report. [Research Reports or Papers]
Malloch, M.S., McIvor, G., Schinkel, M. and Armstrong, S. (2013) The Elements of Effective Through-care - Part 1: International Review. Scottish Government - Community Justice Services. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Barton, G. (2012) Reducing Reoffending: Review of Selected Countries: Final Review for Audit Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , McIvor, G., McNeill, F. and McGuinness, P. (2012) International Evidence Review of Conditional (Suspended) Sentences: Final Report. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2012) Reducing Reoffending: Review of Selected Countries. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , Malloch, M., Norris, P. and Nellis, M. (2011) Evaluation of the Use of Home Detention Curfew and the Open Prison Estate in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. and Weaver, B. (2010) User Views of Punishment: The comparative experience of short prison sentences and community-based punishments. [Research Reports or Papers]
Leverick, F. , Chalmers, J. , Armstrong, S. and McNeill, F. (2009) Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission: 10th Anniversary Research. [Research Reports or Papers]
Armstrong, S. , Hamilton-Smith, N. and Mackenzie, S. (2009) Measuring Police Impact on Organised Crime: a Review of SCDEA’s Key Performance Indicators. [Research Reports or Papers] (Unpublished)
Armstrong, S. , Chistyakova, Y., Mackenzie, S. and Malloch, M. (2008) Circles of Support and Accountability: Consideration of the Feasibility of Pilots in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]
Website
Armstrong, S. and Pickering, L. (2020) Scotland in Lockdown: How Have COVID-19 Measures Affected Your Life? [Website]
Grants
My research has been funded by:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Leverhulme Trust
- Adam Smith Research Foundation
- Chief Scientist Office
- Scottish Government
- Third Sector organisations
- Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
Supervision
Current Students:
Martha O'Carroll (Glasgow/Joint Scholarship) Mapping the Politics of Penal Reform in Scotland
Nicola Ceesay (Glasgow/Joint Scholarship) Exploring the Lived Experience of Scotland's Discretionary Life Sentence: Orders for Lifelong Restriction
John McGhee (ESRC Datasets) Exploring Prisoner Health and Mortality Outcomes using Linked Datasets
Neil Cornish (ESRC Collaborative) Vulnerability of Prisoners in England and Scotland as Experienced by Prisoners and Defined by Prison Authorities
Betsy Barkas (ESRC) The role of the media in justice and investigation processes following deaths in custody in the UK
Helge Petersen (ESRC) The Racialisation of Law and Order – Political Struggles over Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice and Institutionalised Racism in Britain
Rachel Ferguson (ESRC) The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry as a Site of Statistical and Legal Knowledge Production
Elly Nowell (Leverhulme Trust) Development of Rape Shield Legislation
Completed Students:
Rebecca Foster (Dawes Trust) Half in/half out: exploring the experiences of the families of prisoners in a Scottish prison visitors’ centre
Colin Atkinson (Strathclyde Police) Beyond cop culture: the cultural challenge of civilian intelligence analysis in Scottish policing
Kisty Deacon (What Works Scotland) Young People’s Experiences of Having a Family Member in Prison
David Usman (Nigerian TETF) The Procedural Justice Model Applied to Trust in and Legitimacy of the Police in Abuja, Nigeria
Meg Lambert Neocolonial discourses in the collection, exhibition, and study of illicit West African cultural objects
Christine Weirich Developing Crime Script Analysis and Situational Crime Prevention for Acting on Antiquities Trafficking Networks
Giuliana Tiripelli Peacemaking Journalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
