School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Alistair Fraser

Senior Lecturer (Sociology)

email: Alistair.Fraser@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Alistair Fraser is currently Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Glasgow. His work focuses centrally on issues of youth, crime, and globalisation, with a particular interest in youth 'gangs' in a global and comparative context. Alistair’s first book, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City (OUP, 2015) was shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award and co-awarded the British Society of Criminology Book Prize. Reviews have been published in Global Crime, Scottish Justice Matters the British Journal of Criminology and Crime Media Culture, as well as media reporting of the work in the Daily Record, Sunday Herald and Evening Times. His most recent book, Gangs and Crime: Critical Alternatives was published by Sage in 2017.

Alistair is currently a BBC/AHRC ‘New Generation Thinker’ and is collaborating with BBC Radio 3 on a series of broadcasts. The first of these, on Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’, is available here. Beyond this scheme, Alistair has participated in a range of media in relation to his work, most recently on BBC Scotland's 'Kay Adams' show, BBC’s ‘Timeline’, STV's 'Scotland Tonight', and BBC Radio Four's 'Thinking Allowed.'

Alistair’s other principal interest is around global and comparative approaches to crime and justice. Prior to joining Glasgow spent four years as Assistant Professor in Criminology in the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, and recently co-edited a special issue of the Crime Media Culture on Asian criminology. He is currently Associate Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, with a remit for international mobility.

Alistair welcomes prospective PhD applicants in the areas of gangs, crime and justice; youth studies; urban sociology; and global and comparative criminology. He is particularly interested in studies using comparative, qualitative, ethnographic, digital or visual methodologies.

Research interests

Youth crime and justice

Gangs and subcultures

Global and comparative criminology

Urban sociology

Place and space

Ethnography and qualitative methods

Oral history

Asian criminology

Publications

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Number of items: 33.

2018

Fraser, A., Ralphs, R. and Smithson, H. (2018) European youth gang policy in comparative context. Children and Society, 32(2), pp. 156-165. (doi:10.1111/chso.12265)

Fraser, A. and Hagedorn, J. M. (2018) Gangs and a global sociological imagination. Theoretical Criminology, 22(1), pp. 42-62. (doi:10.1177/1362480616659129)

2017

Fraser, A., Batchelor, S. , Ling, L. L. N. and Whittaker, L. (2017) City as lens: (re)imagining youth in Glasgow and Hong Kong. Young: The Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 25(3), pp. 235-251. (doi:10.1177/1103308816669642)

Fraser, A. and Cheuk-Yin Li, E. (2017) The second life of Kowloon walled city: crime, consumerism and cultural memory. Crime, Media, Culture, 13(2), pp. 217-234. (doi:10.1177/1741659017703681)

Batchelor, S. , Fraser, A., Ling, L. L. N. and Whittaker, L. (2017) (Re)Politicising young people: from Scotland’s Indyref to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. In: Pickard, S. and Bessant, J. (eds.) Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises. Series: Palgrave studies in young people and politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319582498

Fraser, A. (2017) Gangs and Crime: Critical Alternatives. Sage: London. ISBN 9781473911901

Hobbs, D. and Fraser, A. (2017) Urban criminal collaborations. In: Liebling, A., Maruna, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Criminology [6th edition]. Oxford University Press, pp. 587-606. ISBN 9780198719441

Bartie, A. and Fraser, A. (2017) Speaking to the ‘Hard Men’: masculinities, violence and youth gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75. In: Abrams, L. and Ewan, E. L. (eds.) Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinity in Scottish History. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 258-277. ISBN 9781474403894

Bartie, A. and Fraser, A. (2017) 'It wasnae just Easterhouse: the politics of representation in the Glasgow gang phenomenon, c.1965-1975. In: Gildart, K., Gough-Yates, A., Lincoln, S., Osgerby, B., Robinson, L., Street, J., Webb, P. and Worley, M. (eds.) Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise. Series: Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 205-229. ISBN 9781137529107 (doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52911-4_9)

Fraser, A. (2017) Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination, by Alison Young. Law and Literature, 29(2), pp. 373-375. (doi:10.1080/1535685X.2017.1306220) [Book Review]

2016

Fraser, A. (2016) Researching crime and justice in Hong Kong. In: Chui, W. H. and Lo, T. W. (eds.) Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong [2nd edition]. Routledge: London, pp. 118-134. ISBN 9781138888746

Piacentini, T. and Fraser, A. (2016) Back to Back: Revisiting Ethnographies Past, Present and Future. [Website]

Fraser, A. (2016) Global Gangs: Street Violence Across the World; edited by J. Hazen and D. Rodgers. British Journal of Criminology, 56(1), pp. 204-207. (doi:10.1093/bjc/azv044) [Book Review]

Fraser, A. (2016) Criminology in a controlled climate: reflections on learning and teaching in Hong Kong. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 12(1), pp. 37-43.

2015

Fraser, A. (2015) Reframing gangs. Oxford University Press Blog,

Fraser, A. (2015) Umbrella sociology. IIAS Newsletter, 70,

Fraser, A. (2015) Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City. Series: Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198728610

2014

Fraser, A. and Atkinson, C. (2014) Making up gangs: looping, labelling and the new politics of intelligence-led policing. Youth Justice, 14(2), pp. 154-170. (doi:10.1177/1473225414529047)

Bartie, A. and Fraser, A. (2014) The Easterhouse project: youth gangs, social justice and the arts in Glasgow, 1968-1970. Scottish Justice Matters, 2014, pp. 38-39.

Fraser, A. (2014) City of experience, city of Imagination. Wall Street Journal Blog,

Fraser, A. and Piacentini, T. (2014) We belong to Glasgow: the thirdspaces of youth ‘gangs’ and asylum seeker, refugee and migrant groups. In: Phillips, C. and Webster, C. (eds.) New Directions in Race, Ethnicity and Crime. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 55-79. ISBN 9780415540490

2013

Fraser, A. (2013) Review of Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle, 'What is Criminology?'. Asian Journal of Criminology, 8(3), pp. 231-234. (doi:10.1007/s11417-012-9145-z) [Book Review]

Fraser, A. (2013) Ethnography at the periphery: redrawing the borders of criminology's world-map. Theoretical Criminology, 17(2), pp. 251-260. (doi:10.1177/1362480612472786)

Fraser, A. (2013) Street habitus: gangs, territorialism and social change in Glasgow. Journal of Youth Studies, 16(8), pp. 970-985. (doi:10.1080/13676261.2013.793791)

Joe-Laidler, J.K., Fraser, A. and Lau, G. (2013) Reducing Hong Kong's Youth Crime Through Community Intervention : An Evaluation of Operation Breakthrough. Project Report. Centre for Criminology Department of Sociology. (Unpublished)

2012

Fraser, A. (2012) Youth in Crisis? Gangs, Territoriality and Violence, edited by Barry Goldson. British Journal of Criminology, 52(1), pp. 227-230. (doi:10.1093/bjc/azr081) [Book Review]

2011

Fraser, A. and MacQueen, S. (2011) Evaluation of Early and Effective Intervention and Diversion from Prosecution in Dumfries and Galloway. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

2010

Fraser, A., Burman, M., Batchelor, S. and McVie, S. (2010) Youth violence in Scotland: a literature review. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Burman, M., Johnstone, J., Fraser, A. and McNeill, F. (2010) Scotland. In: Dünkel, F., Grzywal, P., Horsfield, P. and Pruin, I. (eds.) Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe - Current Situation and Reform Developments. Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH: Mönchengladbach, pp. 1149-1194. ISBN 9783936999754

Mackenzie, S. and Fraser, A. (2010) Communities and Community Safety: Theories, Concepts and Strategies. Discussion Paper. Community Safety Unit, The Scottish Government. (Unpublished)

2009

Ashe, S., Fraser, A. and Piacentini, T. (2009) Introduction: Critical Issues in Researching ‘Hidden Communities'. eSharp, Specia, pp. 1-9.

Fraser, A. (2009) Deviation from the mean? Cultural representations of Glasgow since 'No mean city'. In: McNair, A. and Ryder, J. (eds.) Further from the Frontiers...: Cross-Currents in Irish and Scottish Studies. AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies: Aberdeen, UK, pp. 21-32.

2008

Bannister, J. and Fraser, A. (2008) Youth gang identification: learning and social development in restricted geographies. Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, 14, pp. 96-114.

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