Dr Sarah Armstrong
- Senior Research Fellow (Sociology)
telephone: 01413308257
email: Sarah.Armstrong@glasgow.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Sociology of punishment
- Penal institutions
- Theories of risk
- Sociology of regulation, governance and accountability
- Privatisation, markets and punishment
- Social theory
Article
Armstrong, S. (2013) Philosophy as capacity. Criminal Law and Philosophy . ISSN 1871-9791 (In Press)
Armstrong, S. (2013) Review of: R. Lippke’s, The Ethics of Plea Bargaining. Criminal Law and Philosophy . ISSN 1871-9791 (In Press)
Armstrong, S. (2013) Siting prisons, sighting communities: geographies of objection in a planning process. Environment and Planning A . ISSN 0308-518X (In Press)
Armstrong, S.C., and Weaver, E. (2013) Persistent punishment: user views of short prison sentences. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice . ISSN 0265-5527 (In Press)
Armstrong, S. (2011) David Garland, 'Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 15 (3). pp. 490-492. ISSN 1364-9809 (doi:10.3366/elr.2011.0066)
Leverick, F., Chalmers, J., Armstrong, S., and McNeill, F. (2010) Part of the establishment? A decade of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Scots Law Times (27). pp. 147-151. ISSN 0036-908X
Armstrong, Sarah, and McNeill, F. (2009) Choice versus crisis: how Scotland could transform the way we think about prisons and punishment. Criminal Justice Matters, 75 (1). pp. 2-4. ISSN 0962-7251 (doi:10.1080/09627250802699632)
Armstrong, S. (2009) Nicola Lacey, 'The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies': Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 13 (3). pp. 550-551. ISSN 1364-9809 (doi:10.3366/E1364980909000821)
Armstrong, S.C. (2008) Crime pays - but for whom? Scottish Left Review, 48 . pp. 8-9.
Armstrong, S.C. (2007) What good are markets in punishment? Prison Service Journal, 172 . pp. 1-4. ISSN 0300-3558
Armstrong, S (2003) Bureaucracy, Private Prisons, and the Future of Penal Reform. Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 7 (1). pp. 275-306. ISSN 1093-3514
Armstrong, S (2002) Punishing not-for-profit: Implications of nonprofit privatization in juvenile punishment. Punishment and Society, 4 (3). pp. 345-368. ISSN 1462-4745 (doi:10.1177/146247402400426789)
Armstrong, S (2002) The emergence and implications of a mental health ethos in juvenile justice. Sociology of Health and Illness, 24 (5). pp. 599-620. ISSN 0141-9889
Book Section
Armstrong, S.C. (2012) Using the future to predict the past: prison population projections and the colonisation of penal imagination. In: Malloch, M. and Munro, B. (eds.) Crime, Critique and Utopia: Themes for a Critical Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan. (Unpublished)
Armstrong, S. (2008) Fixing Scotland's remand problem. In: Lightowler, C. and Hare, D. (eds.) Prisons and Sentencing Reform: Developing Policy in Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR), Glasgow, UK, pp. 10-14.
Armstrong, S., and McAra, L. (2006) Audiences, borders, architecture: the contours of control. In: Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780199278763
Armstrong, S.C., and McAra, L. (2006) Audience, borders and architecture: the contours of control. In: Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-30. ISBN 9780199278763
Edited Book
Armstrong, S. and McAra, L., (Eds.) (2006) Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199278763
Research Report or Paper
Armstrong, S., Malloch, M., Norris, P., and Nellis, M. (2011) Evaluation of the Use of Home Detention Curfew and the Open Prison Estate in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government Social Research, Edinburgh, UK.
Armstrong, Sarah, and Weaver, Beth (2010) User Views of Punishment: The comparative experience of short prison sentences and community-based punishments. Project Report. University of Glasgow / University of Strathclyde.
Leverick, F., Chalmers, J., Armstrong, S., and McNeill, F. (2009) Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission: 10th Anniversary Research. Project Report. Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, Glasgow, UK.
Armstrong, Sarah, Hamilton-Smith, N., and Mackenzie, Simon (2009) Measuring Police Impact on Organised Crime: a Review of SCDEA’s Key Performance Indicators. Project Report. Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. (Unpublished)
Armstrong, Sarah, Chistyakova, Y, Mackenzie, Simon, and Malloch, M (2008) Circles of Support and Accountability: Consideration of the Feasibility of Pilots in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
