Neil Hutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Hutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutton |
| SIGNATURE | HUTTON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Criminal Justice in Scotland
Crime trends in Scotland since 1950 statistics and the problem of crime in Scotland classifying Scottish criminal procedure the politics of prevention - the safer cities experiment in Scotland situating Scottish policing the prosecution service - independence and accountability criminal justice responses to bail abuse courts sentencing in Scotland the fine as auto-punishment - power, money and discipline community-based disposals imprisonment and…
Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives
Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from twelve different countries, this major new international volume answers key questions in the study of sentencing and society. It presents not only a rigorous examination of the latest legal and empirical research from around the world, but also reveals the workings of sentencing within society and as a social practice. Traditionally, work in the field of sentencing has b…
From intuition to database: Translating justice
The article tells the story of the development of a Sentencing Information System for the High Court in Scotland from its genesis as an exploratory research project to its final implementation in the court. The article uses Actor Network Theory to understand how the database was assembled through the social practices of academic researchers, government officials, judges and court officers. It offers a corrective to theories which exaggerate the d…
Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: Penal adaptation and misadaptation
This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts. It explores the nature of the practice of social enquiry (that is, of social workers preparing reports to assist sentencers) and explores the extent to which this practice is being reconfigured in line with the recent accounts of penal transformation. In so doing, we problematize and explore what we term the ‘governmentality gap’; …
Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process
This article builds on the work of Michael Lipsky and develops an argument about the significance of interprofessional working for street‐level bureaucracy. It presents an ethnographic analysis of criminal justice social workers writing presentence reports for the Scottish courts. Social workers' report writing for judges brought into relief issues of relative professional status. Social workers were uncertain of their place within the legal doma…
Shadow Writing and Participant Observation: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Work Around Sentencing
The study of decision‐making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for decades. The methodological challenges posed by this research agenda are well understood: how can socio‐legal researchers get inside the heads of legal decision‐makers in order to understand the uses of official discretion? This article describes an ethnographic technique the authors developed to help them penetrate t…
Assisting and Advising The Sentencing Decision Process: The Pursuit of 'Quality' in Pre-Sentence Reports
Pre-sentence reports are an increasingly prevalent feature of the sentencing process. Yet, although judges have been surveyed about their general views, we know relatively little about how such reports are read and interpreted by judges considering sentence in specific cases, and, in particular, how these judicial interpretations compare with the intentions of the writers of those same reports. This article summarizes some of the main findings of…
Beyond populist punitiveness
Much of the survey data on public knowledge and attitudes to sentencing and punishment gathered over recent years have suggested that the public in western jurisdictions support harsher punishment and have diminishing confidence in the criminal courts. The results of research on the same issues using focus groups, deliberative polls or other methods which provide more information or allow respondents to discuss their views with others, appear to …
Sentencing, Inequality and Justice
Barbara Hudson’s critique of the ‘just deserts ’ approach to punishment has been one of the most important attempts to construct a ‘progressive’1 approach to punishment, an area of policy which has always been problem-atic for those on the left. This discussion of her work is in sympathy with
Sentencing in the New South Africa: The Prospects for Reform
Interactions between the formal UK school science curriculum and the public understanding of science
The debate about the public understanding of science has taken place at a time when science education in UK schools has undergone significant change. This paper examines some of the features pertinent to the two areas. The aims of school science education are shown to be generally consistent with those cited for increasing the public understanding of science. A comparison is made between the science occurring in the public domain of newspapers wi…
Sentencing, Rationality, and Computer Technology
A number of jurisdictions have recently begun to employ computer technology to provide support for sentencers. This essay reviews these projects and discusses how the use of computers fits into our understanding of sentencing as a decision-making process. While most work on sentencing has been written from a moral philosophical or legal perspective,' this essay examines sentenc- ing2 from a sociological perspective. In order to address the possib…
Beyond populist punitiveness
Much of the survey data on public knowledge and attitudes to sentencing and punishment gathered over recent years have suggested that the public in western jurisdictions support harsher punishment and have diminishing confidence in the criminal courts. The results of research on the same issues using focus groups, deliberative polls or other methods which provide more information or allow respondents to discuss their views with others, appear to …
Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: Penal adaptation and misadaptation
This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts. It explores the nature of the practice of social enquiry (that is, of social workers preparing reports to assist sentencers) and explores the extent to which this practice is being reconfigured in line with the recent accounts of penal transformation. In so doing, we problematize and explore what we term the ‘governmentality gap’; …
Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process
This article builds on the work of Michael Lipsky and develops an argument about the significance of interprofessional working for street‐level bureaucracy. It presents an ethnographic analysis of criminal justice social workers writing presentence reports for the Scottish courts. Social workers' report writing for judges brought into relief issues of relative professional status. Social workers were uncertain of their place within the legal doma…
Criminal Justice in Scotland
Crime trends in Scotland since 1950 statistics and the problem of crime in Scotland classifying Scottish criminal procedure the politics of prevention - the safer cities experiment in Scotland situating Scottish policing the prosecution service - independence and accountability criminal justice responses to bail abuse courts sentencing in Scotland the fine as auto-punishment - power, money and discipline community-based disposals imprisonment and…
Sentencing, Rationality, and Computer Technology
A number of jurisdictions have recently begun to employ computer technology to provide support for sentencers. This essay reviews these projects and discusses how the use of computers fits into our understanding of sentencing as a decision-making process. While most work on sentencing has been written from a moral philosophical or legal perspective,' this essay examines sentenc- ing2 from a sociological perspective. In order to address the possib…
Shadow Writing and Participant Observation: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Work Around Sentencing
The study of decision‐making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for decades. The methodological challenges posed by this research agenda are well understood: how can socio‐legal researchers get inside the heads of legal decision‐makers in order to understand the uses of official discretion? This article describes an ethnographic technique the authors developed to help them penetrate t…
Assisting and Advising The Sentencing Decision Process: The Pursuit of 'Quality' in Pre-Sentence Reports
Pre-sentence reports are an increasingly prevalent feature of the sentencing process. Yet, although judges have been surveyed about their general views, we know relatively little about how such reports are read and interpreted by judges considering sentence in specific cases, and, in particular, how these judicial interpretations compare with the intentions of the writers of those same reports. This article summarizes some of the main findings of…
From intuition to database: Translating justice
The article tells the story of the development of a Sentencing Information System for the High Court in Scotland from its genesis as an exploratory research project to its final implementation in the court. The article uses Actor Network Theory to understand how the database was assembled through the social practices of academic researchers, government officials, judges and court officers. It offers a corrective to theories which exaggerate the d…
Sentencing, Inequality and Justice
Barbara Hudson’s critique of the ‘just deserts ’ approach to punishment has been one of the most important attempts to construct a ‘progressive’1 approach to punishment, an area of policy which has always been problem-atic for those on the left. This discussion of her work is in sympathy with
Sentencing, Rationality, and Computer Technology
A number of jurisdictions have recently begun to employ computer technology to provide support for sentencers. This essay reviews these projects and discusses how the use of computers fits into our understanding of sentencing as a decision-making process. While most work on sentencing has been written from a moral philosophical or legal perspective,' this essay examines sentenc- ing2 from a sociological perspective. In order to address the possib…
Interactions between the formal UK school science curriculum and the public understanding of science
The debate about the public understanding of science has taken place at a time when science education in UK schools has undergone significant change. This paper examines some of the features pertinent to the two areas. The aims of school science education are shown to be generally consistent with those cited for increasing the public understanding of science. A comparison is made between the science occurring in the public domain of newspapers wi…
Sentencing in the New South Africa: The Prospects for Reform
Sentencing, Inequality and Justice
Barbara Hudson’s critique of the ‘just deserts ’ approach to punishment has been one of the most important attempts to construct a ‘progressive’1 approach to punishment, an area of policy which has always been problem-atic for those on the left. This discussion of her work is in sympathy with
Beyond populist punitiveness
Much of the survey data on public knowledge and attitudes to sentencing and punishment gathered over recent years have suggested that the public in western jurisdictions support harsher punishment and have diminishing confidence in the criminal courts. The results of research on the same issues using focus groups, deliberative polls or other methods which provide more information or allow respondents to discuss their views with others, appear to …
Shadow Writing and Participant Observation: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Work Around Sentencing
The study of decision‐making by public officials in administrative settings has been a mainstay of law and society scholarship for decades. The methodological challenges posed by this research agenda are well understood: how can socio‐legal researchers get inside the heads of legal decision‐makers in order to understand the uses of official discretion? This article describes an ethnographic technique the authors developed to help them penetrate t…
Assisting and Advising The Sentencing Decision Process: The Pursuit of 'Quality' in Pre-Sentence Reports
Pre-sentence reports are an increasingly prevalent feature of the sentencing process. Yet, although judges have been surveyed about their general views, we know relatively little about how such reports are read and interpreted by judges considering sentence in specific cases, and, in particular, how these judicial interpretations compare with the intentions of the writers of those same reports. This article summarizes some of the main findings of…
Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: Penal adaptation and misadaptation
This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing in the Scottish courts. It explores the nature of the practice of social enquiry (that is, of social workers preparing reports to assist sentencers) and explores the extent to which this practice is being reconfigured in line with the recent accounts of penal transformation. In so doing, we problematize and explore what we term the ‘governmentality gap’; …
Street‐Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process
This article builds on the work of Michael Lipsky and develops an argument about the significance of interprofessional working for street‐level bureaucracy. It presents an ethnographic analysis of criminal justice social workers writing presentence reports for the Scottish courts. Social workers' report writing for judges brought into relief issues of relative professional status. Social workers were uncertain of their place within the legal doma…
From intuition to database: Translating justice
The article tells the story of the development of a Sentencing Information System for the High Court in Scotland from its genesis as an exploratory research project to its final implementation in the court. The article uses Actor Network Theory to understand how the database was assembled through the social practices of academic researchers, government officials, judges and court officers. It offers a corrective to theories which exaggerate the d…
Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives
Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from twelve different countries, this major new international volume answers key questions in the study of sentencing and society. It presents not only a rigorous examination of the latest legal and empirical research from around the world, but also reveals the workings of sentencing within society and as a social practice. Traditionally, work in the field of sentencing has b…
Criminal Justice in Scotland
Crime trends in Scotland since 1950 statistics and the problem of crime in Scotland classifying Scottish criminal procedure the politics of prevention - the safer cities experiment in Scotland situating Scottish policing the prosecution service - independence and accountability criminal justice responses to bail abuse courts sentencing in Scotland the fine as auto-punishment - power, money and discipline community-based disposals imprisonment and…
Political science (12 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminal justice (4 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)