McAra, L and McVie, S (2012, forthcoming) Critical Debates in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, in Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert Reiner (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, Fifth Edition. 

McVie, S (2011) Alternatives models of youth justice: lessons from Scotland and Northern Ireland, Journal of Children's Services, 6(2): 106-114.

McVie, S. (2010) Gang Membership and knife carrying: findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. Edinburgh: Scottish Government Social Research.

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2010) Youth Justice? The Impact of Agency Contact on Desistance from Offending, (reprint of journal article), in Farrall, S., Hough, M., Maruna, S. and Sparks, R. (Eds) Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment, Routledge.

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2010) Youth Crime and Justice in Scotland in Croall, H., Mooney, G. and Munro, M. (Eds) Criminal Justice in Contemporary Scotland, Open University Press.

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2010) Youth Crime and Justice: Key Messages from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10(2), 179-209.

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2009) Youth Justice? The Impact of System Contact on Patterns of Desistance from Offending, (reprint of original article published in European Journal of Criminology), in Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (Eds) Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice, Sage. 

McAra, L. (2009) La Justice de Mineurs en Ecosse: Pressions Convergentes et Singularités Culturelles, Déviance et Société, 33(3): 383-398

McVie, S. (2009) Self-Report Delinquency Surveys in European Countries: Britain and Ireland, in Zaubermann, R. (Ed) Self-Reported Crime and Deviance Studies in Europe: Current State of Knowledge and Review of Use, Brussels: VUB Press.  (Also available in French)

McVie, S. (2009) Criminal Careers and Young People, in Barry, M. and McNeill, F. (Eds) Youth Offending and Youth Justice: Research Highlights in Social Work. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Barker, E., Arseneault, L., Brendgen, M., Fontaine, N. and Maughan, B. (2008) Joint Development of Bullying and Victimization in Adolescence: Relations to Delinquency and Self-Harm, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent psychiatry, 47(9): 1030-1038.

McAra, L. (2007) Welfarism in Crisis:  Crime Control and Penal Practice in Post-Devolution Scotland in Keating, M. (Ed.) Scottish Social Democracy: Progressive Ideas for Public Policy, P.I.E. – Peter Lang: Brussels

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2007) Youth Justice? The Impact of System Contact on Patterns of Desistance from Offending, European Journal of Criminology, 4(3): 315-345

McAra, L.  and McVie, S. (2007) No Way Out?, Children in Scotland Magazine, 7: 8-9

McAra, L.  and McVie, S. (2007) Criminal Justice Transitions, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No.14.

McVie, S. (2007) Animal abuse amongst young people aged 13 to 17: Trends, trajectories and theoretical explanations. Policy Report for the RSPCA. 

Smith, D.J. (2007), Crime and the Life Course, in Maguire, M., Morgan, R., and Reiner, R. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Smith, D.J. and Ecob, R. (2007) An Investigation of Causal Links between Victimization and Offending in Adolescents, British Journal of Sociology, 58(4):633-659

McAra, L. (2006) Welfare in Crisis? Youth Justice in Scotland in Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (Eds) Comparative Youth Justice, Sage, London.

McVie, S. and Norris, P.A. (2006) Neighbourhood Effects on Youth Delinquency and Drug Use, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No.10.

McVie, S. and Norris, P.A. (2006) The Effect of Neighbourhoods on Adolescent Property Offending, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No.11.

Smith, D.J. (2006), Social Inclusion and Early Desistance from Crime, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No.12.

Smith, D.J. (2006), School Experience and Delinquency at Ages 13 to 16, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No.13.

Bradshaw, P. (2005) Terrors and Young Teams: Youth Gangs and Delinquency in Edinburgh in Decker, S. and Weerman, F. (Eds.) Youth Gangs in Europe, Alta Mira Press.  **Awarded Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology Book Award 2006**

McAra, L. (2005) Negotiated Order: Gender, Youth Transitions and Crime (McAra) British Society of Criminology e-Journal, volume 6. 

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2005) The Usual Suspects? Street-life, Young Offenders and the Police in Criminal Justice, 5 (1): 5-36. (Available from Sage Publications by subscription.)

McVie, S. (2005) Patterns of deviance underlying the age-crime curve: the long term evidence in British Society of Criminology e-Journal, volume 7.

Smith, D.J. (2005) The effectiveness of the juvenile justice system in Criminal Justice, 5 (2): 181-195. (Available from Sage Publications by subscription.)

McAra, L. (2005) Patterns of Referral to the Children’s Hearings Systems for Drugs and Alcohol Misuse, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 6.

McVie, S. and Bradshaw, P. (2005) Adolescent Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use at Ages 12 to 17, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No.7

Smith, D.J. and Bradshaw, P. (2005) Gang Membership and Teenage Offending, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 8.

McVie, S. and Holmes, L. (2005) Family Functioning and Substance Use at Ages 12 to 17, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 9.

McAra, L. (2004) Justice 2 Committee: Youth Justice Inquiry. Pre-Inquiry Seminar on Youth Justice in Scotland: Report and Recommendations.

McAra, L. (2004) The Cultural and Institutional Dynamics of Transformation: Youth Justice in Scotland and England and Wales in Cambrian Law Review, Special edition: November. Full text access is available from Hein Online with subscription.

McAra, L. (2004) Youth Crime and Justice in Scotland: Perception and Reality in Children, Young People and Crime in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Fourth Biennial Conference: Perception and Realities, Conference Report.

Smith, D.J. and McAra, L. (2004) Gender and Youth Offending, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 2.

Smith, D.J. (2004) Parenting and Delinquency at Ages 12 to 15, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 3.

McAra, L. (2004) Truancy, School Exclusion and Substance Misuse, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 4.

Smith, D.J. (2004) The Links between Victimization and Offending, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 5.

Bradshaw, P. (2003) Underage Drinking and the Illegal Purchase of Alcohol Scottish Executive Social Research Report.

McVie, S. (2003) Drifting Into Substance Misuse: Youth Transitions And Family Dynamics in It's A Family Affair: Report of The London Drug Policy Forum Conference.

McVie, S. (2003) The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime: Preliminary Findings on Cruelty towards Animals. Special Report Commissioned by Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

McVie, S. (2003) Gender differences in adolescent development and violence: findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime in Dunkel, F and Drenkhahn, K (eds) Youth Violence: new patterns and local responses – Experiences in East and West: 399-417, Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH, Munchengladbach.

Smith, D.J. and McVie, S. (2003) Theory and Method in the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, British Journal of Criminology, 43(1):169-195. (Available online via BJC website by subscription).

Flint, J.F. (2002) Social Housing Agencies and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour, Housing Studies, 17 (4): 619-637.  (Available online via Injenta by subscription)

McAra, L. (2002) Scottish Juvenile Justice System: Policy and Practice) in Winterdyk, J. (ed.) Juvenile Justice Systems:  International Perspectives second edition Toronto, Canadian Scholars Press

McAra, L. (2002) Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose’: L'Evolution Du Système De Justice Pour Les Mineurs En Ecosse, in Déviance et Société, vol. 26 no. 3 pp367-386

Smith, D.J. (2002) Crime And The Life Course, in Maguire, M.,  Morgan, R., and  Reiner, R.  (eds.) The Oxford Handbook Of Criminology, 3rd edition, pp.702-745, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Smith, D.J. (2001) Youth, Parenting and Crime. Children in Scotland Magazine.

Smith, D.J., McVie, S., Woodward, R., Shute, J. and McAra, L. (2001) The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime: Key Findings at Ages 12 and 13, Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime Research Digest No. 1.

McAra, L. and Smith, D.J. (2001) Report to ESRC on Sweeps 1 and 2

Smith, D.J. (1999) Less crime without more punishment. Edinburgh Law Review, 3, 294-316

Smith, D.J. (1999) Negotiated order: A unifying principle for parenting and juvenile justice. Part 1,  Scholag Legal Journal, November.

Smith, D.J. (1999) Negotiated order: A unifying principle for parenting and juvenile justice. Part 2, Scholag Legal Journal, December.