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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=”160066″]Call for Papers: Special Issue – Community Justice in Scotland[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”192261″]<\/p>\n

Community Justice in Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scotland is a devolved political jurisdiction within the UK, but has always had separate criminal law and justice arrangements, including, since 2017, an executive agency called Community Justice Scotland.\u00a0 While official use of the term \u201ccommunity justice\u201d in Scotland is a twenty-first century innovation, practice in the field\u00a0 is especially distinctive \u2013 shaped principally by the 1968 Social Work (Scotland) Act, which created the system of ‘justice social work’ in local authorities (replacing the Scottish probation service). Since then it has diversified to include third sector agencies working with people involved in the criminal justice system, restorative and non-state-centred models of justice, and expanded roles for justice social work in prisons and in post-release supervision. The Act has, relatively, protected Scottish community justice from much of the ‘de-social working’ and the explicitly neo-liberal, punitive-managerialist agenda that has characterised probation policy in England and Wales, although Scotland\u2019s prison population remains in the same ballpark as England and Wales, and is rising.\u00a0 The Act\u2019s legacy is complex and implicated in a range of practical and political challenges faced by community justice in Scotland \u2013 notably a series of reorganisations over the last few decades which have reconfigured the structures around justice social work without solving the deep structural and cultural problems affecting the sector.<\/p>\n

This special issue of the British Journal of Community Justice will present a range of perspectives on key issues from or on Scottish community justice\u00a0research, policy and practice, and we invite contributions from researchers, practitioners and others with experience of Scottish community justice to submit abstracts. We aim to accept and publish up to eight articles \u2013 these could include empirical research, theoretical pieces, policy analyses, practitioner papers or reformist opinion papers \u2013 as well as a book review section\u00a0 on Scottish-focused publications.<\/p>\n

We especially welcome papers that:<\/p>\n