Publications

A literature review by Dr Rachel McPherson, Mr Nicholas Burgess, Dr Jay Gormley and Professor Cyrus Tata School of Law, University of Glasgow and Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, School of Law, Strathclyde University, reviewing the information available on the sentencing of rape offences in Scotland, as well as looking at other jurisdictions.

A literature review by Dr Rachel McPherson, Mr Nicholas Burgess, Dr Jay Gormley and Professor Cyrus Tata School of Law, University of Glasgow and Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, School of Law, Strathclyde University, reviewing the information available on the sentencing of offences involving sexual assault in Scotland, as well as looking at other jurisdictions.

Dr Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann and Donald Campbell at the University of Strathclyde conducted a review to summarise existing academic, legal and statistical work on the sentencing of environmental and wildlife offences.

A literature review by Dr Jay Gormley, Dr Rachel McPherson and Professor Cyrus Tata of the Centre for Law, Crime & Justice, The Law School, University of Strathclyde, examines how sentence discounting,  works both in Scotland and in other jurisdictions around the world.

In order to inform its development of a guideline on sentencing young people, the Scottish Sentencing Council asked the University of Edinburgh to carry out a systematic review of the current neurological, neuropsychological, and psychological evidence on the cognitive maturity of younger people.