Dr Marguerite Schinkel
- Senior Lecturer (Sociology)
telephone:
0141 3308257
email:
Marguerite.Schinkel@glasgow.ac.uk
Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5804-5701Biography
I am a senior lecturer in Criminology and a member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. I joined the University in October 2013 as an ESRC Future Leader Research Fellow. In the past, my research has focused on the meaning of long-term (PhD) and repeated short-term prison sentences (post-doc) for those who undergo them. I found that long sentences have to be accepted in order to cope with them, and are sometimes given transformative meanings in order to explain a positive future. Persistent short sentences, on the other hand, are not individually meaningful, but people serving them come to feel they belong in prison and that they have wasted their lives. I have also studied the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on punishment in Scotland, as co-stream lead on criminal justice, part of a wider research project at the University of Glasgow. My monograph Being Imprisoned, based on my PhD, was published in 2014. More recently, I have worked with an artist and Modern Studies teachers to develop a graphic novel and learning resource based on my postdoc: A Life In Pieces - SCCJR.
Before starting my PhD I worked as a support assistant in L'Arche Vancouver, as a mental health support worker in Edinburgh and as a researcher, including for the Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland.
Research interests
I am interested in alternative ways of achieving justice, penal abolition, and public communication that might change the debate around crime and punishment.
Publications
Selected publications
Schinkel, M. (2014) Being Imprisoned: Punishment, Adaptation and Desistance. Series: Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137440822 (doi: 10.1057/9781137440839)
Schinkel, M. (2014) Punishment as moral communication: the experiences of long-term prisoners. Punishment and Society, 16(5), pp. 578-597. (doi: 10.1177/1462474514548789)
Schinkel, M. (2015) Hook for change or shaky peg? Imprisonment, narratives and desistance. European Journal of Probation, 7(1), pp. 5-20. (doi: 10.1177/2066220315575204)
Schinkel, M. (2015) Adaptation, the meaning of imprisonment and outcomes after release: the impact of the prison regime. Prison Service Journal, 219, pp. 24-29.
All publications
Supervision
I am interested in supervising research projects in the broad areas of penology and penal change, with a particular interest in projects which focus on any of the following themes:
- The experience and impact of imprisonment
- Justice alternatives
- Punishment practices
- Community based solutions to harm
- Belonging after criminal punishment
- Multiple disadvantage
Current students:
Lisa Armstrong (College of Social Sciences PhD Scholarship): The Impact of Remand Decision-making on the Rights of Women in Scotland
Teresa Brasio-McLaughlin (CoSS PhD Scholarship): Men’s Mental Health After Prison: Everyday Experiences Of Mental Health In The Community Post-Imprisonment
Scott McMillan (ESRC Scholarship): Experiences of the Process of Progression through the Scottish Criminal Justice System for those Sentenced to Life Imprisonment.
Bethan Morgan (Edinburgh/Glasgow Joint Scholarship): Examining the Use and Impact of Progress Reviews
Alice Myers (Carnegie PhD Scholarship): Imagining a Polyvocal Prison Image Archive
- Brasio-McLaughlin, Maria Teresa
Mental Healthcare Provision within Scottish Prisons
Past students
Neil Cornish (2022) - Vulnerability of Prisoners in England and Scotland as Experienced by Prisoners and Defined by Prison Authorities.
Javier Velasquez Valenzuela (2019) - Doing Justice: Sentencing Practices in Scottish Sheriff Courts.
Teaching
