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Members of the Study Team have presented papers at many conferences, seminars and lectures, both in the UK and abroad.  Copies of papers for many of these events are available on request.

2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998.

2011

Violence, victimisation and vulnerability: Exploring hidden elements of youth engagement in offending.  (McVie).  University of Glasgow Urban Studies staff seminar series, Glasgow (March).

  

Young adults, growing out of crime and desistance: Learning from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. (McVie)  Transition to Adulthood (T2A) national conference held by the Barrow Cadbury Trust Conference, London (March).

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime: Informing implementation of the GIRFEC framework.  (McAra & McVie)  Children and Families Strategy Group, Forth ward of North Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Council (February). 

2010

Negotiated Order: deviance, identity and desistance (McAra and McVie).  European Society of Criminology Conference, Liege, Belgium (September).

Risk and Uncertainty in the youth justice context (McVie), Staff Seminar, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh (March).

Youth crime and justice in Edinburgh: Implications for practitioners.  (McVie) Youth Justice and Social Work Seminar for City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh (October).

Understanding the causes of crime.  (McVie) Scottish Government Logic Modelling Seminar, University of Edinburgh (October).

Understanding victim experiences of violence (McVie)  International Victim Support Conference, Edinburgh (October).

Lessons for Youth Justice in the City of Edinburgh: Findings from 10 years of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime.  (McVie). Seminar for Youth Justice Coordinators for South East Scotland, Edinburgh (September). 

Youth Gangs and Knife Crime in Scotland.  (Bannister & McVie). Scottish Government's National Community Safety Convention, Glasgow (September).

Reflections on Ten Years of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. (McVie).  Lancaster Criminology Group, Lancaster University (September).

Young people, crime and desistance: reflections on the Scottish Children's Hearing System.  (McVie) Lecture for City of Edinburgh Children's Panel Training Group, Edinburgh (August).

Early intervention, later outcomes: Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. (McVie) Community Justice Authority Convenor Development Event, SPS Training College, Polmont (August).

Risk, Uncertainty and Youth Justice in Scotland. (McVie) Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (March).

Facts about Youth Crime and Justice that any System should fit.  (McAra & McVie) Invited Policy Briefing for Scottish Government, Edinburgh (March). 


2009

Crime and Punishment in a Small Nation: Why Penology Matters (McAra), Inaugural Lecture at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh).

Key Lessons from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. (McAra & McVie) Scottish Government Education Department, seminar, Edinburgh. 

Pathways to conviction: early intervention and labelling effects. (McAra & McVie). Ministry of Justice, private policy seminar, London. 

In the Best Interests of the Child? Key Controversies in Contemporary Youth Justice (McAra), University of Cardiff,  School of Social Sciences, Seminar Series in Honour of Peter Clarke, (Cardiff).

Youth Justice? Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (McAra), Plenary Paper, Conference on Youth Justice Policy, British Society of Criminology, (Liverpool).

The Impact of Intervention: Key Messages from the Edinburgh Study (McAra), Plenary Paper, NACRO Annual Conference (London).

Criminal Justice Pathways (McAra and McVie), Seminar on Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, (Edinburgh).

Criminal Justice Pathways (McAra and McVie), Seminar on Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, (London).


2008

The Strange Death of Welfarism: Youth Justice and the Anti-Social in Scotland (McAra), ESRC Seminar Series on Anti-Social Behaviour, University of Leeds, (Leeds).

Scottish Criminal Justice in Comparative Context (McAra), Free University Brussels Staff Seminar, (Brussels, Belgium).  

Negotiated Order: Personhood and Identity in Late-Modernity (McAra), Centre for Law and Society “Thresholds” Seminar Series, (Edinburgh).

In the Best Interests of the Child? Scottish Youth Justice in Comparative Context (McAra),  Plenary Paper, International Conference on Youth Justice, (Cork, Eire).

Criminalisation of Young People (McAra), AHRC Seminar Series on Criminalisation, (Glasgow).

Cycles of Labelling (McAra and McVie), European Society of Criminology Conference, (Edinburgh).

Self-report Delinquency Surveys in European Countries: Britain and Ireland (McVie), Special meeting of the European Commission funded CrimPrev framework on Assessing Deviance, Crime and prevention in Europe, (Paris).

Violence, Victimisation and Vulnerability: The relationship between offending and victimisation (McVie),  Violence Reduction Unit Conference, (Glasgow).

Fact versus Counterfactual: The Use of Propensity Score Matching in Criminological Research (McVie),  European Society of Criminology Conference, (Edinburgh).

Keeping it in The Family? Young People, Families and Crime (McVie),  Knowledge Exchange Seminar for the Children and Youth Studies Network, (Glasgow).


2007

The Future of Youth Justice (McAra), SACRO and Barnardos Conference on Young Offenders in Scotland: Is Prevention the Cure? (Edinburgh)

Scottish Youth Justice in Comparative Context (McAra), GERN GERN International Seminar on the Criminalisation of Juveniles and Current Trends, (Zaragossa, Spain).

Youth Crime and Justice: Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study, Neighbourhood Managers Seminar, Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh (December)

The Future of Youth Justice: Response to the Minister for Justice (McAra and McVie), An Audience with the Justice Minister, Public Seminar, Edinburgh (November).

Causal links between offending and victimization in the teenage years (Smith), Nuffield Foundation Seminar on Research Findings and Policy Implications, London (October).

Links between violence, victimisation and other vulnerabilities (McVie), Nuffield Foundation Seminar on Research Findings and Policy Implications, London (October).

Trajectories of bullying over the teenage years (Barker and Maughan), Nuffield Foundation Seminar on Research Findings and Policy Implications, London (October).

The victim-offender nexus: key challenges for youth justice policy (McAra), Nuffield Foundation Seminar on Research Findings and Policy Implications, London (October).

Punishment, perception and action in a cohort of Scottish adolescents: an empirical study of perceptual deterrence (Shute), European Criminology Conference, Bologna (September).

Assessing the criminogenic effect of formal social control: a dual trajectory approach (McVie), European Criminology Conference, Bologna (September).

The influence of friends on the trajectory of teenage offending (Smith), European Criminology Conference, Bologna (September).

Violence, Victimisation and Vilification (McAra and McVie), Key-note address, Stars of CCTV Public Seminar, Craigmillar Capacity Building Project, Edinburgh (June).

Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence: The Youth Crime Connection  (McVie), The Links Group Conference, Dogs Trust, Uxbridge, (May).

Animal Abuse amongst Young People: Trends, Trajectories and Links with Other Offending (McVie), RSPCA, Kent (April).

Violence and Victimisation: Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (McAra), Plenary paper, ACPO(S)/Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research “Think Tank” on Family Violence and Offender Management, University of Stirling, Stirling (April).

Early Intervention: The Research Evidence (McAra), Scottish Policy Innovation Forum, Response, Edinburgh (March).

Youth Justice Transitions: Key Findings from The Edinburgh Study (McAra), Public Lecture, Scottish Association For The Study Of Offending, Edinburgh (March).

The Impact of Youth Justice Interventions on Desistance from Offending (McAra and McVie), Mannheim Seminar Series, LSE/British Society Of Criminology, London (February).

 

2006

Victims of Justice? The Impact of Intervention on Youth Offending (McAra and McVie), ESRC Seminar Series: Life After Punishment, Edinburgh.

The Scottish Model of Juvenile Justice: Key Lessons And Challenges (McAra), Families Commission Conference, London.

Adjusting for Non-response in a Longitudinal Survey; Comparisons of Weighting and Imputation (McVie and Raab), Methods of Longitudinal Studies Conference, Essex.

Animal Abuse amongst Young People: Trends, Trajectories and Links with other Offending (McVie) Invited paper, RSPCA, Kent.

Youth Justice: Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study (McAra and McVie) Youth Justice Board, Scottish Executive Special Seminar, Edinburgh.

 

Ethical Dilemmas: Key Lessons from the Edinburgh Study (McAra) Staff seminar, University Of Stirling

Victims of Justice? The Impact of Youth Justice on Desistance from Offending (McVie) Staff seminar, Centre for Criminological Research, Sheffield University.

Truancy, Exclusion and Offending: Evidence from the Edinburgh Study (McVie) Seminar for the Social Justice Scrutiny Panel, City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh.

Youth Justice?  Agency Contact and Youth Offending (McAra and McVie), ESRC Funded Knowledge Transfer Seminar, Glasgow.

Youth Justice Transitions (McAra and McVie), Scottish Executive Special Seminar on the Edinburgh Study, Edinburgh.

Justice for the vulnerable: key findings from the Edinburgh Study, (McAra) Scottish Association for the Study of Offending, Annual Conference, Glasgow.

The Usual Suspects: The impact of youth justice on persistent offending (McAra and McVie) The Edinburgh Study seminar series: Nuffield Foundation, London.

Anti-social behaviour: impact and response,  International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (McAra) Open University, Conference on Youth Justice and the Anti-social. 

Key findings from the Edinburgh Study: policy implications (McAra, McVie and Smith) Scottish Executive Justice Department Seminar, Edinburgh.

The impact of youth justice on persistent offending (McAra and McVie) Holyrood conference on persistent offending, Edinburgh.

The Strange Death of Welfarism: Youth justice and the Anti-Social in Scotland (McAra) International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research, Conference on Youth Justice and the Anti-social, Open University.

Have you got previous FORM(s), SIR? Data Collection, past present and future in the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, (Palmer) SIR 2006 International Conference, Stratford-on-Avon.

Comparing imputation and weighting for a longitudinal study: results based on the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, (Raab and McVie)  Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys Conference July 2006.  

Pathways through offending: a qualitative view from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, (Holmes) British Society of Criminology Conference, Glasgow.

Victims of Justice? Young People, Agency Contact and Deviancy Amplification,(McAra and McVie) British Society of Criminology Conference, Glasgow.

Unravelling Youth Crime Patterns Using Trajectory Modelling, (McVie) British Society of Criminology Conference, Glasgow.

 

2005

Pathways through adolescent offending: a qualitative view from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Holmes), European Society of Criminology Conference, Krakow

Desistance from adolescent offending: a qualitative view from the
Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime
(Holmes), New Researchers
in Families and Relationships Conference
, Edinburgh.

Community justice? Social exclusion and the limits of participation (McAra) NACRO Annual Conference.

Problem Girls? Key Findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (McAra) University of Edinburgh, Education Department Conference on Problem Girls, Edinburgh.

The Future of Juvenile Justice (McAra) NACRO Conference on Youth Justice.

Youth Justice in Comparative Context (McAra) Staff seminar, Queen’s University Belfast.

Youth justice in comparative context (McAra), Staff seminar, Queen's University, Belfast

Edinburgh Study: Theory and Method (McAra and McVie) Childhood Studies Network, Edinburgh.

What Works Revisited: Youth Justice, Cultural Context and Deviancy Amplification (McAra and McVie) British Society of Criminology Conference, Leeds.

Does neighbourhood have the same effect on crime and drug use? (McVie), British Criminology Conference, Leeds.

Neighbourhood effects on offending trajectories (McVie), European Criminology Conference, Krakow.

Longitudinal self-report studies: methodological and comparative challenges (McVie), Cross-national Survey Research Methodology Symposium, Northeastern University, Boston.

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Smith), Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin.

Desistance from offending and social inclusion (Smith), Keele University Seminar on Desistance, Keele

The effectiveness of the juvenile justice system (Smith), University of Sydney, Conference on Children, Risk and Crime, Sydney.

The links between victimization and offending (Smith), Griffith University, Brisbane, International Symposium on Pathways and Prevention, Brisbane.

 

2004

Gender and Youth Offending (Holmes) Presentation to the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

Anti-Social Behaviour: Context and Response (McAra and Smith) Evidence to the Justice 2 Committee of the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.

Parenting and Delinquency at Ages 12 to 15 (Smith) Presentation to the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

Policing young offenders (McVie) Youth Justice Inquiry Seminar of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice 2 Committee, Glasgow.

Truancy, School Exclusion and Substance Misuse (McVie) Presentation to the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

Gang Membership and Teenage Offending (McVie) Presentation to the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

The Links between Victimization and Offending (Smith) Presentation to the Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Smith) Conference on The Long View: Longitudinal Studies in Scotland, St Andrews University

A Critical Review of the Kilbrandon Ethos (Smith) Youth Justice Inquiry Seminar of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice 2 Committee, Edinburgh.

Family Influences on Youth Offending (Smith) Supporting Families to Prevent Youth Crime Conference.

Youth Crime and Justice in Scotland: Perceptions and Realities (McAra) Fifth Biennial Conference on Children, Young People and Crime in Britain and Ireland: Perceptions and Reality, Cardiff.

Culture in Practice: The Effectiveness of the Scottish Children’s Hearings System (McAra and McVie) Societies of Criminology, First Key Issues Conference, Paris.

Safety in numbers? Young people, communities and crime (McVie) Fifth Biennial Conference on Children, Young People and Crime in Britain and Ireland: Perceptions and Reality, Cardiff.

Policing Subjectivities (McAra) British Society of Criminology Conference, Portsmouth

Patterns of deviance underlying the age-crime curve: the long term evidence (McVie) British Society of Criminology Conference, Portsmouth.

Patterns of deviance underlying the age-crime curve: the long term evidence (McVie) European Society of Criminology Conference, Amsterdam.

Self-esteem, depression and poor social relationships (Holmes) European Society of Criminology Conference, Amsterdam.

Youth Crime: Trends and Causes (Smith) Edinburgh Common Purpose Course, Crime and Criminal Justice day, Saughton Prison, Edinburgh.

Youth Transitions and Violence: A research based analysis of risk factors and predictors (McVie) The Second International Conference – Towards a Safer Society, Understanding and Tackling Violence, Glasgow.

The effectiveness of the juvenile justice system (Smith) Conference on Youth Violence.

Explaining Gender Differences in Truancy (McAra) COSLA Briefing.

 

2003

Aims and Methods of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Smith) City of Edinburgh Council Children’s Services Strategy Group and Drug Action Team Seminar on Youth Transitions and Crime.

Anti-Social Behaviour: What Do We Know? (McVie) City of Edinburgh Council Children’s Services Strategy Group and Drug Action Team Seminar on Youth Transitions and Crime.

Boozers, Users And Abusers: Relationships Between Alcohol, Tobacco And Drug Use In Adolescence (Bradshaw) Edinburgh Health Research Group Seminar.

Challenges of a Longitudinal Research Programme (McVie and Bradshaw) Social Research Association Seminar.

Community as the Context for Youth Justice Policy (Smith) Keynote address, Communities that Care Annual Conference.

Explaining Truancy And School Exclusion (McAra) City of Edinburgh Council Children’s Services Strategy Group and Drug Action Team Seminar on Youth Transitions and Crime.

Negotiated Order: Gender, Youth Transitions and Crime (McAra) British Society of Criminology Conference.

Neighbourhood Dynamics and Delinquency (Brown) British Society of Criminology Conference.

Offenders as Victims (Smith) Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Guest Lecture

Parenting and Crime in the Neighbourhood Context (Smith) University of Durham, Department of Sociology Seminar.

Patterns and Trends in Youth Crime: Evidence from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (McVie) Cross Party Group of the Scottish Parliament. 

Patterns Of Offending And Institutional Response: Key Findings From The Edinburgh Study Of Youth Transitions And Crime (McAra) Keynote Address, Edinburgh Common Purpose: Crime and Justice Programme.

Substance Use and Delinquency (Smith) City of Edinburgh Council Children’s Services Strategy Group and Drug Action Team Seminar on Youth Transitions and Crime.

Substance Use and the Development of Delinquency (Bradshaw) British Society of Criminology Conference.

Substance Use and Youth Problem Behaviour (Smith) Presentation to the Prevention Working Group of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. 

The Edinburgh Study: Data on Use of Drugs and Alcohol (Smith) NHS Scotland Round Table Presentation.

The Edinburgh Study: Family Influences, and Links between Victimization and Offending (Smith) Home Office Seminar.

The Effect of Neighbourhood Setting on Youth Offending at Ages 12 to 15 (Smith) European Society of Criminology Conference.

Theory and Method in the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Smith) Social Research Association evening lecture series.

Victimization And Offending: Two Sides of the Same Coin (Smith) Souls College, Oxford, Criminology Seminar Series. 

Young People and School (McVie) University of Edinburgh, Education Department Seminar.

Youth crime in Edinburgh: Evidence and characteristics (McVie S and Bradshaw) 6VT Seminar, Youth Café, Edinburgh.

Youth Justice in Scotland and England and Wales: Cultural and Institutional Dynamics (McAra) Public Seminar, University of Leeds.

Youth Perspectives on Crime and Health Risk Behaviours (Bradshaw and McVie) The Edinburgh Youth Café funded Seminar on Young People and Crime. 

Youth Transitions And Crime: The Long-Term Evidence (McVie) Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour Conference, Napier University.

 

2002

Adolescent offending and victimization: Two sides of the same coin (Smith) European Society of Criminology Conference.

Community as the context for youth justice policy (Smith) Keynote Address from Communities that Care Scottish Conference.

Drifting into substance misuse: Youth transitions and family dynamics (McVie) London Drugs Policy Forum Conference.

How different are Scottish youth gangs? (Bradshaw) European Society of Criminology Conference.

Lay Participation in Juvenile Justice International Colloquium on Youth Justice organised by the French Ministry of Justice.

Parenting and crime in the context of the neighbourhood (Smith) British Society of Criminology Conference.

The Dynamics of Small-Scale Penal Systems:  Inter-agency working and Cross Institutional Culture (McAra) International Colloquium on Youth Justice organised by the French Ministry of Justice.

The Edinburgh Study Education Seminar October 2002 (Bradshaw, McAra, McVie and Smith). Hosted by the City of Edinburgh Education Department.

The tutelary complex: Parenting, ethnicity, and crime (McAra) Jacobs Foundation Conference on Ethnicity and Crime

The vagaries of penal control: Gender and Juvenile Justice (McAra and McVie) European Society of Criminology Conference.

Truanting: Social Context and Institutional Response (McAra) Edinburgh City Council/University of Edinburgh Conference on Key Findings from The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime.

Youth Justice in Transition:  The Effectiveness of the Children’s Hearings System (McAra) Second International Conference on Sentencing and Society.

Youth lifestyles and delinquency (Bradshaw) Scottish Association for the Study of Delinquency Annual Conference.

 

2001

Negotiated Order: A Unifying Principle for Parenting and Juvenile Justice (Smith) The SACRO McLintock Lecture.

Adolescent development and violence: Findings from the Edinburgh study of youth transitions and crime (McVie) International Association for Research into Juvenile Criminology Conference.

Gender and Crime Paper (McAra and Smith) European Society of Criminology Conference.

How Different are Girls? Testing the Need for a Gendered Theory of Offending (McAra and Smith)  Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series University of Edinburgh.

 

2000

Gender and Crime: A Response to Catharine Mackinnon (McAra) Scottish Criminology Conference.

Gender, Social Control and Violent Crime (McAra and McVie)  Conference on Challenges of Violence organised by the ESRC Programme on Violence.

Identifying Potential Offenders with Severe Personality Disorders: Can we do it? (Smith) Annual Conference of the Royal College of Psychiatry.

Minorities and Social Exclusion (Smith) Conference organised by the University of Athens.

Policy Implications of the Edinburgh Study (McVie) Colloquium on Youth Justice and Crime organised by the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.

Young people’s contact with the children’s hearing system (McAra) British Council conference for the Chief Minister of Justice for Thailand and a visiting delegation of Thai Magistrates.

Youth crime in Edinburgh: Gender and criminality (Flint, McVie, Shute and Woodward) Scottish Criminology Conference.

 

1999

Routes of Violence in Children and Young People (Smith) Annual Conference of the Royal Society of Medicine.

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (Smith) University of Edinburgh, Social Policy Seminar series.

The Edinburgh Study: Early Findings (Smith) The Howard League Lecture.

Thresholds for Crime and Punishment for Adolescent Offenders (Smith)  Conference organised by the American Psychology and Law Society in conjunction with the European Association of Psychology and Law.

 

1998

Children, Families and Early Intervention: Preventing Anti-Social Behaviour (Smith) A Children in Scotland conference.

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (McAra, McVie, Shute and Smith) University of Edinburgh, Centre for Law and Society seminar series.

 

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