Professor Margaret Malloch

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Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Colin Bell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Margaret Malloch

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About me

My work includes research, writing and activism that aims to challenge processes of criminalisation and punitive responses to ‘crime’ . It questions and explores concepts of 'justice', what this means in practice - and how it is defined by and through collective action.

I am working on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship - Memorialising Injustice: Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland (2023-24)

Ongoing work and research interests focus on: Transformative Justice and Abolitionism; Collective aid and community engagement; Gender and the criminal legal system; Confronting Criminalising Processes and Practices; Exploitation and Responses to 'Human Trafficking': constructing 'problems' and policy responses, Creating and sustaining 'communities of recovery'.

Interested in supervising students with a critical approach to theory and methods; expertise in qualitative research and analysis.    

Research (14)

crime, critique and utopian rethinking criminalisation and justice in transition gender, punishment and social justice exploitation and human trafficking - examining state responses creating communities of recovery transformative justice - mutual aid and collective action

Projects

Developing the evidence base for social care responses to children / families affected by domestic abuse
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

'It's our anxiety that keeps them locked up'. Protection for whom? Responding to the needs of 'at risk' young women in Scotland.
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council

Drugs Research Network Scotland (Host)
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: Scottish Funding Council

The experiences of victims in the criminal justice system: a qualitative research project
PI: Professor Jane Callaghan
Funded by: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Scottish Government - Child Trafficking
PI: Dr Paul Rigby
Funded by: Scottish Government

Community Impact of Marches and Parades
PI: Dr Niall Hamilton-Smith
Funded by: Scottish Government

Evaluation of Women's Mentoring Programme.
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: North Ayrshire Council

Prison Health Needs Assessment for Alcohol Problems
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: NHS Health Scotland

All Change: An Examination of Community - based responses to crime
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: The Carnegie Trust

Evaluation of Four Aberlour Projects
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: Aberlour Child Care Trust

A Proposal for An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Home Detention Curfew and the Open Prison Estate
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: Scottish Enterprise

Young Runaways in Grampian Pilot Evaluation
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: Scottish Government

Routes to Recovery
PI:
Funded by: Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness

NatCen Studentship: To Explore the Social Construction of Rape and the Criminal Justice Response in Scotland
PI: Professor Margaret Malloch
Funded by: National Centre for Social Research

Outputs (109)

Outputs

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Book Chapter

Malloch M & Armstrong LM (2024) Therapeutic or Therapunitive? Conceptualising Community Custody in Scotland. In: Chamberlen A & Bandyopadhyay M (eds.) Geographies of Gendered Punishment: Women’s Imprisonment in Global Context. 1 ed. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031612763#about-this-book


Research Report

Grant M, Fotopoulou M, Hunter S, Malloch M, Rigby P & Taylor K (2023) Survivor-informed support for trafficked children in Scotland. AHRC- Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre. https://modernslaverypec.org/resources/trafficked-children-scotland


Book Chapter

Fotopoulou M & Malloch M (2022) Responding to Problem Substance Use: deconstructing structures and politicising the personal. In: Gelsthorpe L & Brown S (eds.) The Wiley Handbook on What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Critical Review of Theory, Practice, and Policy. Wiley Series in Offender Rehabilitation, Wiley Series in Offender Rehabilitation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/The+Wiley+Handbook+on+What+Works+with+Girls+and+Women+in+Conflict+with+the+Law%3A+A+Critical+Review+of+Theory%2C+Practice%2C+and+Policy-p-9781119886419


Conference Paper (unpublished)

Taylor K, Fotopoulou M, Grant M, Malloch M & Rigby P (2022) Recovery in the eyes of survivors of child trafficking in Scotland: implications for policy and practice. QUB Human Rights Centre Human Trafficking Research Network Online Conference Beyond Silos: Amplifying Marginal Voices and Underexplored Methods in Human Trafficking Research 16-17 June 2022, QUB Human Rights Centre Human Trafficking Research Network Online Conference, 16.06.2022-17.06.2022.


Website Content

Fotopoulou M, Grant M, Malloch M, Rigby P & Taylor K (2022) The Odyssey of the new policy: Reflections on the UK’s Nationality and Borders Bill (Part 1). University of Stirling Public Policy Blog [Policy blog post] 03.05.2022. https://policyblog.stir.ac.uk/2022/05/03/the-odyssey-of-the-new-policy-reflections-on-the-uks-nationality-and-borders-bill-part-1/


Article

Price T, Parkes T & Malloch M (2021) 'Discursive struggles' between criminal justice sanctions and health interventions for people who use drugs: a qualitative exploration of diversion policy and practice in Scotland. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 28 (2), pp. 118-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2020.1775180


Book Chapter

Malloch M (2020) Rethinking Punitive Paternalism: Abolitionism, the personal and political. In: Coyle MJ & Scott D (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Penal-Abolition/Coyle-Scott/p/book/9781138354098


Research Report

Rigby P, Malloch M, Beetham T & Callaghan J (2020) Child Trafficking in Scotland. Scottish Government. Social Research. Edinburgh. https://www.gov.scot/publications/child-trafficking-scotland-research/


Research Report

Eunson J, Murray L, Graham H, Malloch M & McIvor G (2018) Review of the Aberdeen Problem Solving Approach. Scottish Government. Social Research series. Edinburgh. https://www.gov.scot/Resource/0054/00540003.pdf


Conference Paper (unpublished)

Fotopoulou M & Malloch M (2018) Gendering recovery: women in research, policy and practice. Drugs, Alcohol, Women and Families, Manchester Metropolitan University, 23.05.2018-24.05.2018. https://dawfconference.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/dawf-conference-programme-final.pdf


Book Chapter

Malloch M (2017) The Imprisonment of Women in Scotland: Restructure, Reform or Abolish?. In: Moore L, Scraton P & Wahidin A (eds.) Women’s Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition: Critical Reflections on Corston Ten Years On. London: Routledge, pp. 71-87. https://www.routledge.com/Womens-Imprisonment-and-the-Case-for-Abolition-Critical-Reflections/Moore-Scraton-Wahidin/p/book/9781138700260


Article

Malloch M (2016) Justice for Women: A Penal Utopia?. Justice, Power and Resistance, Foundation Volume, pp. 151-169. http://www.egpress.org/content/foundation-volume-2016-justice-power-and-resistance


Book Chapter

Malloch M & Rigby P (2016) Contexts and Complexities. In: Malloch M & Rigby P (eds.) Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-trafficking.html


Article

Malloch M & Munro W (2016) (Re)imagining Punishment and Justice. Scottish Justice Matters, 4 (1), pp. 2-3. http://scottishjusticematters.com/wp-content/uploads/SJM_4-1_www_Complete.pdf


Research Report

Mulholland C, Eunson J, Murray L, Bowen L, McIvor G, Malloch M, Whyte B, Kirkwood S & McNeill F (2016) Evaluation of the Reducing Reoffending Change Fund: Research Findings. Scottish Government - Community Justice Services. Research Findings, 61/2016. Scottish Government. http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6786


Research Report

Mulholland C, Eunson J, Murray L, Bowen L, McIvor G, Malloch M, Whyte B, Kirkwood S & McNeill F (2016) Evaluation of the Reducing Reoffending Change Fund. Scottish Government - Community Justice Services. Scottish Government Social Research. Scottish Government. http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00493932.pdf


Edited Book

Malloch M & Rigby P (eds.) (2016) Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-trafficking.html


Book Chapter

Malloch M & Rigby P (2016) Postscript. In: Malloch M & Rigby P (eds.) Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 246-252. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-trafficking.html


Book Chapter

Burman M, Malloch M & McIvor G (2015) A comparison: criminalised women in Scotland. In: Annison J, Brayford J & Deering J J (eds.) Women and the Criminal Justice System: From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 59-80. https://policypress.co.uk/women-and-criminal-justice


Research Report

Hamilton-Smith N, Malloch M, Ashe S, Rutherford AC & Bradford B (2015) Community Impact of Public Processions. Scottish Government. Social Research series: Crime and Justice. Scottish Government Social Research. http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/02/3769/downloads


Book Chapter

Malloch M (2014) Social Exclusion. In: Taylor P, Corteen K & Morley S (eds.) A Companion to Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Risk. Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 269-270. https://policypress.co.uk/a-companion-to-criminal-justice-mental-health-and-risk-1


Edited Book

Malloch M & Munro W (eds.) (2013) Crime, Critique and Utopia. Critical Criminological Perspectives. London: Palgrave MacMillan. http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137009791


Research Report

Malloch M, McIvor G, Schinkel M & Armstrong S (2013) The Elements of Effective Through-care - Part 1: International Review. Scottish Government - Community Justice Services. SCCJR Research Reports, 3/2013. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/International_Through-care_Review.pdf


Book Chapter

Malloch M & McIvor G (2013) Gender and criminal justice. In: Hucklesby A & Wahidin A (eds.) Criminal Justice. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199694969.do


Book Chapter

Malloch M & Munro W (2013) Utopia and its Discontents. In: Malloch M & Munro B (eds.) Crime, Critique and Utopia. Critical Criminological Perspectives. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 1-20. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=577420


Edited Book

Malloch M & Munro W (eds.) (2013) Crime, Critique and Utopia. Critical Criminological Perspectives. London: Palgrave MacMillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=577420


Book Chapter

Malloch M & Munro W (2012) Crime, Critique and Utopia. In: Georgoulas S (ed.) The Politics of Criminology: Critical Studies on Deviance and Social Control. Deviance and Social Control. Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 45-62. http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90186-6


Book Chapter

Goodall K, Malloch M & Munro W (2012) Social and Legal Transitions and Criminalisation. In: Goodall K, Malloch M & Munro B (eds.) Building Justice in Post-transition Europe? Processess of Criminalisation within Central and East European Societies.. Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice, 2. London: Routledge, pp. 3-21. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415697132/


Book Chapter

Malloch M & McIvor G (2012) Women, punishment and social justice. In: Malloch M & McIvor G (eds.) Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human Rights and Penal Practices. Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice. London: Routledge, pp. 3-12. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415529839/


Edited Book

Goodall K, Malloch M & Munro W (eds.) (2012) Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe: Processes of Criminalisation within Central and Eastern European Societies. London: Routledge. https://www.wildy.com/isbn/9780415622400/building-justice-in-post-transition-europe-processes-of-criminalisation-within-central-and-eastern-european-societies-paperback-hardback-in-2012-taylor-francis


Book Chapter

Malloch M & McIvor G (2012) Concluding reflections. In: Malloch M & McIvor G (eds.) Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human Rights and Penal Practices. Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice. London: Routledge, pp. 206-211. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415529839/


Book Chapter

Malloch M (2012) A Healing Place?: Okimaw Ohci and a Canadian Approach to Aboriginal Women. In: Malloch M & McIvor G (eds.) Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human Rights and Penal Practices. London: Routledge, p. 13. https://www.routledge.com/Women-Punishment-and-Social-Justice-Human-Rights-and-Penal-Practices/Malloch-McIvor/p/book/9780415529839


Book Chapter

Malloch M & McIvor G (2011) Women, drugs and community interventions. In: Sheehan R, McIvor G & Trotter C (eds.) Working with Women Offenders in the Community. Cullompton: Willan, pp. 190-215. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781843928874/


Research Report

Burgess C, Malloch M & McIvor G (2011) Women in Focus: An evaluation. South West Scotland Community Justice Authority. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. http://www.sccjr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Women_in_Focus_FINAL_REPORT.pdf


Book Chapter

Malloch M (2010) Time Out for Women in Scotland. In: Herzog-Evans M (ed.) Transnational Criminology Manual. Netherlands: Wold Legal Publishers. http://www.wolfpublishers.com/book.php?id=604


Edited Book

Yates R & Malloch M (eds.) (2010) Tackling Addiction: Pathways to Recovery. London: Kingsley Publishers. http://www.jkp.com/uk/tackling-addiction.html


Book Chapter

Malloch M (2008) A Spoonful of Sugar? Treating Women in Prison. In: Anderson T (ed.) Neither Villain nor Victim. USA: Rutger University Press, p. 18. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/neither-villain-nor-victim/9780813542096


Article

Kendrick A, Walker M, Barclay A, Hunter L, Malloch M, Hill M & McIvor G (2008) The outcomes of secure care in Scotland. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 7 (1), pp. 1-13. http://www.cyc-net.org/Journals/sjrcc/sjrcc-7-1.html


Research Report

McIvor G, Barnsdale L, MacRae R, Brown A, Eley Morris S, Malloch M, Murray C, Piacentini L, Walters R & Stewart D (2006) Evaluation of the Airdrie and Hamilton Youth Court Pilots. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice, Social Research. Scottish Executive. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/06/13155406/0


Research Report

Barnsdale L, MacRae R, McIvor G, Brown A, Eley S, Malloch M, Murray C, Piacentini L, Popham F & Walters R (2006) Evaluation of the Airdrie Sheriff Youth Court Pilot. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice, Social Research. Scottish Executive, Social Research. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/06/09142825/0


Research Report

McIvor G, Barnsdale L, MacRae R, Dunlop S, Brown A, Eley S, Malloch M, Murray C, Murray L, Piacentini L, Popham F & Walters R (2006) Evaluation of the Airdrie and Hamilton Youth Court Pilots - Research findings. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice Research Findings, 85. Scottish Executive Social Research. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/06/13155439/1


Research Report

Barnsdale L, MacRae R, McIvor G, Brown A, Eley S, Malloch M, Murray C, Piacentini L, Popham F & Walters R (2006) Evaluation of the Airdrie Sheriff Youth Court Pilot - Research Findings. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice Research Findings, 84. Scottish Executive Social Research. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/129257/0030788.pdf


Research Report

Loucks N, Malloch M, McIvor G & Gelsthorpe L (2006) Evaluation of the 218 Centre. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice, Social Research. Scottish Executive Justice Department. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/04/24161157/0


Research Report

McIvor G, Barnsdale L, Eley S, Malloch M, Yates R & Brown A (2006) The Operation and Effectiveness of the Scottish Drug Court Pilots. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice, Social Research. Scottish Executive. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/03/28112035/0


Book Chapter

Yates R, McIvor G, Eley S, Malloch M & Barnsdale L (2005) Coercion in drug treatment: The Impact on motivation, aspiration and outcome. In: Pedersen M, Segraeus V & Hellman M (eds.) Evidence Based Practice? Challenges in Substance Abuse Treatment. Helsinki: Nordic Council for Alcohol and Drug Research, pp. 159-169.


Research Report

Popham F, McIvor G, Brown A, Eley Morris S, Malloch M, Murray C, Murray L, Piacentini L & Walters R (2005) Evaluation of the Hamilton Youth Court Pilot 2003-2005. Scottish Executive. Crime and Criminal Justice, Social Research. Scottish Executive Social Research. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/05/26105519/55205


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Teaching

Module co-ordinator for undergraduate programme CRMU 9TS Gender, Crime and Justice and taught postgraduate Dissertation module CRMP009.