Professor McNeil explores comparative penology and asks what can be learned from looking at practices, policies, systems and institutions across different geographical areas as well as historical eras. What can be done in response to critiques of current systems?

Punishment & Society

Beyond punishment: where and when?

Life imprisonment is discussed. Topics include questions around what happens after release, what a sentence like this means, and how to understand the growth in use and form of life sentences.

Life: the ultimate penalty

Professor McNeill discusses the death penalty.

Death: the ultimate penalty

This lecture features University of Edinburgh Professor of Criminology Richard Sparks speaking on the historical and contemporary perspectives around prisons.

Prisons: historical and contemporary perspectives

After a brief discussion of fines and financial penalties, based around the book 'The Currency of Justice' by Pat O'Malley, Professor McNeill invites a practitioner response from a social worker from Glasgow City Council to a paper he has co-authored on community sanctions.

Punishment in society

Professor McNeill discusses sentencing with Professor Neil Hutton, former Dean of Law at the University of Strathclyde and pre-eminent scholar in the field.

Dispensing punishments: courts and sentencing

Professor McNeil talks through some key recent texts in the field of punishment and penology, from David Garland's 'Culture of Control' to Louc Wacquant's 'Punishing the Poor'.

Punishment and penology: contemporary perspectives

This lecture examines current theoretical developments in the sociology of punishment and demonstrates how they affect policy in relation to key areas like sentencing, criminal justice social work, imprisonment, and punishment of women.

Introducing the sociology of punishment

This series on crime and offender management features Professor of Criminology & Social Work Fergus McNeill.

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Punishment & Society

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