Professor Alistair Fraser

  • Professor (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

email: Alistair.Fraser@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 210, Sccjr, Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379

Biography

Alistair Fraser is Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow, and presenter of the podcast Young Warriors.

He teaches and researches issues of youth violence, street culture, and urban crime, with a particular interest in the global gang phenomenon, and works with ethnographic, creative and interdisciplinary ways of working.  His work seeks to make theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded, policy relevant contributions to academic and public debate. He recently led   a new study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), investigating the meaning and utility of 'public health' approaches to violence reduction in Scotland and England. 

Alistair is the author of two books: the first, 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 second book, Gangs and Crime: Critical Alternatives was published by Sage in 2017. He has authored or co-authored more than thirty other publications in journals or edited collections, in outlets including the British Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Sociology, Theoretical Criminology and The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. He is on the International Advisory Board for the Journal of Youth Studies, and is an Associate Editor of Criminology & Criminal Justice. 

Alistair is a regular contributor to public debate on issues of crime and justice and has written for the Wall Street Journal, Herald, Scotsman and Conversation as well as making contributions to BBC Scotland, BBC’s ‘Timeline’, STV's 'Scotland Tonight', and BBC Radio Four's 'Thinking Allowed.' In 2017-18, Alistair was selected as a BBC/AHRC ‘New Generation Thinker’ and collaborated with BBC Radio 3 on a series of broadcasts on themes of gangs, street culture, gentrification, and boredom. In addition Alistair works to engage with different audiences, most recently in a collaboration with the People's Palace Museum, Glasgow, to create a 'digital alternative' guide to the displays for secondary school students.

Alistair also has a longstanding interest in global and comparative criminology. Prior to joining Glasgow spent four years as Assistant Professor in Criminology in the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong,where he was awarded the Faculty of Social Sciences 'Outstanding Teaching Award' for 2013-14. He continues to work and collaborate with colleagues at the University of Hong Kong, mostly recently co-editing a special issue of the Crime Media Culture on the theme of Asian criminology. In 2018 he was awarded an 'Outstanding Paper' award by the Hong Kong Studies Association for a paper from the same issue.

Alistair welcomes prospective PhD applicants in the areas of youth gangs, street culture, illicit markets, policy mobility, violence and violence reduction, urban ethnography, organised crime, 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

Organised crime

Violence and violence reduction

Policy mobility

Global and comparative criminology

Urban sociology

Ethnography and qualitative methods

Oral history

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2025) Crime in the restive city: Globalisation, illicit labour and urban change. In: Oberwittler, Dietrich and Wickes, Rebecca (eds.) Handbook on Cities and Crime. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781800375703

2024

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Gillon, Fern (2024) The Glasgow miracle? Storytelling, violence reduction and public policy. Theoretical Criminology, 28(3), 328 -345. (doi: 10.1177/13624806231208432)

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2024) Critical Approaches to Gangs. In: Pyrooz, David C., Densley, James and Leverso, John (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society. Oxford University Press, pp. 269-286. ISBN 9780197618158 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.013.25)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Irwin-Rogers, Keir, Gillon, Fern, McVie, Susan and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Safe Space? The past, present and future of violence reduction in Scotland. Other. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

2023

Szakolczai, Janos Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0535-4994, Casey, Ryan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7672-1678, Cullen, Amy, Qvist-Baudry, Emily and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2023) Public Space CCTV: Research Findings. Documentation. Scottish Government.

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2023) Gangs and the gig economy: triads, precarity and illicit work in Hong Kong. British Journal of Criminology, (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azad018) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Kjellgren, Richard, Hamilton-Smith, Niall and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2022) Criminal Grades? Contract cheating and student exploitation in Higher Education. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Weaver, Beth and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2022) The social dynamics of group-offending. Theoretical Criminology, 26(2), pp. 264-284. (doi: 10.1177/13624806211030459)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2022) Entering the street field: a case study on gangs. In: Bucerius, Sandra M., Haggerty, Kevin D. and Berardi, Luca (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 324-339. ISBN 9780190904500 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.16)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Van Hellemont, Elke (2022) Six lines: a methodological agenda for critical gang studies. Critical Criminology, 30(1), pp. 13-28. (doi: 10.1007/s10612-022-09617-0)

2021

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Clark, Andy (2021) Damaged hardmen: organised crime and the half-life of deindustrialisation. British Journal of Sociology, 72(4), pp. 1062-1076. (doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12828) (PMID:33641171)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Matthews, Daniel (2021) Towards a criminology of atmospheres: law, affect and the codes of the street. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(4), pp. 455-471. (doi: 10.1177/1748895819874853)

Clark, Andy, Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Hamilton-Smith, Niall (2021) Networked territorialism: the routes and roots of organised crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 24(2), pp. 246-262. (doi: 10.1007/s12117-020-09393-9)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Schliehe, Anna (2021) The carceral city: confinement and order in Hong Kong’s forbidden enclave. British Journal of Criminology, 61(3), pp. 587-606. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azaa087)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2021) The street as an affective atmosphere. In: Herrity, Kate, Schmidt, Bethany E. and Warr, Jason (eds.) Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Series: Emerald studies in culture, criminal justice and the arts. Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, pp. 217-230. ISBN 9781839097270

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Armstrong, Gary and Hobbs, Dick (2021) Policing the Olympic gang: the rise and fall of the Portuguese mafia. Policing and Society, 31(2), pp. 195-208. (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2019.1700985)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Laidler, Karen and Leung, Helen (2021) A genealogy of gangs in Hong Kong. In: Brotherton, David C. and Gude, Rafael Jose (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138616110

2020

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Van Hellemont, Elke (2020) Gangs and globalization. In: Pontell, Henry N. (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190264079 (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.434)

Batchelor, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661, Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Whittaker, Lisa and Li, Leona (2020) Precarious leisure: (re)imagining youth, transitions and temporality. Journal of Youth Studies, 23(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2019.1710483)

2019

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2019) The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members. By V. R. Panfil (NYU Press, 2017, 312 pp. Paperback £21.99) Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town: Ghetto Chameleons. By M. Rosenkratz Lindegaard (Routledge, 2018, 290 pp. Hardcover £93.50) Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador. By S. Wolf (University of Texas Press, 2017, 320 pp. Paperback £17.99). British Journal of Criminology, 59(5), pp. 1260-1265. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azz014)[Book Review]

2018

Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Hamilton-Smith, N., Clark, A., Graham, W., Mcbride, Maureen, Doyle, M. and Hobbs, D. (2018) Community Experiences of Serious Organised Crime in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Ralphs, Robert and Smithson, Hannah (2018) European youth gang policy in comparative context. Children and Society, 32(2), pp. 156-165. (doi: 10.1111/chso.12265)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Hagedorn, John M. (2018) Gangs and a global sociological imagination. Theoretical Criminology, 22(1), pp. 42-62. (doi: 10.1177/1362480616659129)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2018) The ghost of ethnography future. In: Rice, Stephen K. and Maltz, Michael D. (eds.) Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Springer: Cham, pp. 179-185. ISBN 9783319963150 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96316-7_14)

2017

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Batchelor, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661, Ling, Leona Li Ngai and Whittaker, Lisa (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Cheuk-Yin Li, Eva (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, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661, Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Ling, Leona Li Ngai and Whittaker, Lisa (2017) (Re)Politicising young people: from Scotland’s Indyref to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. In: Pickard, Sarah and Bessant, Judith (eds.) Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises. Series: Palgrave studies in young people and politics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-251. ISBN 9783319582498 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58250-4_13)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2017) Gangs and Crime: Critical Alternatives. Sage: London. ISBN 9781473911901

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Hobbs, Dick (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 (doi: 10.1093/he/9780198719441.003.0027)

Bartie, Angela and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2017) Speaking to the ‘Hard Men’: masculinities, violence and youth gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75. In: Abrams, Lynn and Ewan, Elizabeth L. (eds.) Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinity in Scottish History. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 258-277. ISBN 9781474403894

Bartie, Angela and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2016) Researching crime and justice in Hong Kong. In: Chui, Wing Hong and Lo, T. Wing (eds.) Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong [2nd edition]. Routledge: London, pp. 118-134. ISBN 9781138888746

Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2016) Back to Back: Revisiting Ethnographies Past, Present and Future. [Website]

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2015) Reframing gangs. Oxford University Press Blog,

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2015) Umbrella sociology. IIAS Newsletter, 70,

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2015) Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City. Series: Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198728610 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728610.001.0001)

2014

Fraser, Alistair and Atkinson, Colin (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2014) The Easterhouse project: youth gangs, social justice and the arts in Glasgow, 1968-1970. Scottish Justice Matters, 2014, pp. 38-39.

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2014) City of experience, city of Imagination. Wall Street Journal Blog,

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752 (2014) We belong to Glasgow: the thirdspaces of youth ‘gangs’ and asylum seeker, refugee and migrant groups. In: Phillips, Coretta and Webster, Colin (eds.) New Directions in Race, Ethnicity and Crime. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 55-79. ISBN 9780415540490

2013

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Burman, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Batchelor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661 and McVie, S. (2010) Youth violence in Scotland: a literature review. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Burman, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Johnstone, J., Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and McNeill, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-6482 (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, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9294-4732 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2010) Communities and Community Safety: Theories, Concepts and Strategies. Discussion Paper. Community Safety Unit, The Scottish Government. (Unpublished)

2009

Ashe, S., Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Piacentini, T. (2009) Introduction: Critical Issues in Researching ‘Hidden Communities'. eSharp, Specia, pp. 1-9.

Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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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Articles

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Gillon, Fern (2024) The Glasgow miracle? Storytelling, violence reduction and public policy. Theoretical Criminology, 28(3), 328 -345. (doi: 10.1177/13624806231208432)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2023) Gangs and the gig economy: triads, precarity and illicit work in Hong Kong. British Journal of Criminology, (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azad018) (Early Online Publication)

Weaver, Beth and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2022) The social dynamics of group-offending. Theoretical Criminology, 26(2), pp. 264-284. (doi: 10.1177/13624806211030459)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Van Hellemont, Elke (2022) Six lines: a methodological agenda for critical gang studies. Critical Criminology, 30(1), pp. 13-28. (doi: 10.1007/s10612-022-09617-0)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Clark, Andy (2021) Damaged hardmen: organised crime and the half-life of deindustrialisation. British Journal of Sociology, 72(4), pp. 1062-1076. (doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12828) (PMID:33641171)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Matthews, Daniel (2021) Towards a criminology of atmospheres: law, affect and the codes of the street. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(4), pp. 455-471. (doi: 10.1177/1748895819874853)

Clark, Andy, Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Hamilton-Smith, Niall (2021) Networked territorialism: the routes and roots of organised crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 24(2), pp. 246-262. (doi: 10.1007/s12117-020-09393-9)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Schliehe, Anna (2021) The carceral city: confinement and order in Hong Kong’s forbidden enclave. British Journal of Criminology, 61(3), pp. 587-606. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azaa087)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Armstrong, Gary and Hobbs, Dick (2021) Policing the Olympic gang: the rise and fall of the Portuguese mafia. Policing and Society, 31(2), pp. 195-208. (doi: 10.1080/10439463.2019.1700985)

Batchelor, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661, Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Whittaker, Lisa and Li, Leona (2020) Precarious leisure: (re)imagining youth, transitions and temporality. Journal of Youth Studies, 23(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2019.1710483)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Ralphs, Robert and Smithson, Hannah (2018) European youth gang policy in comparative context. Children and Society, 32(2), pp. 156-165. (doi: 10.1111/chso.12265)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Hagedorn, John M. (2018) Gangs and a global sociological imagination. Theoretical Criminology, 22(1), pp. 42-62. (doi: 10.1177/1362480616659129)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Batchelor, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661, Ling, Leona Li Ngai and Whittaker, Lisa (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Cheuk-Yin Li, Eva (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)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2016) Criminology in a controlled climate: reflections on learning and teaching in Hong Kong. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 12(1), pp. 37-43.

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2015) Reframing gangs. Oxford University Press Blog,

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2015) Umbrella sociology. IIAS Newsletter, 70,

Fraser, Alistair and Atkinson, Colin (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2014) The Easterhouse project: youth gangs, social justice and the arts in Glasgow, 1968-1970. Scottish Justice Matters, 2014, pp. 38-39.

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2014) City of experience, city of Imagination. Wall Street Journal Blog,

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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)

Ashe, S., Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Piacentini, T. (2009) Introduction: Critical Issues in Researching ‘Hidden Communities'. eSharp, Specia, pp. 1-9.

Bannister, J. and Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2008) Youth gang identification: learning and social development in restricted geographies. Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, 14, pp. 96-114.

Books

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2017) Gangs and Crime: Critical Alternatives. Sage: London. ISBN 9781473911901

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2015) Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City. Series: Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198728610 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728610.001.0001)

Book Sections

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2025) Crime in the restive city: Globalisation, illicit labour and urban change. In: Oberwittler, Dietrich and Wickes, Rebecca (eds.) Handbook on Cities and Crime. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781800375703

Schwarze, Tilman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2024) Critical Approaches to Gangs. In: Pyrooz, David C., Densley, James and Leverso, John (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society. Oxford University Press, pp. 269-286. ISBN 9780197618158 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618158.013.25)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2022) Entering the street field: a case study on gangs. In: Bucerius, Sandra M., Haggerty, Kevin D. and Berardi, Luca (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 324-339. ISBN 9780190904500 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.16)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2021) The street as an affective atmosphere. In: Herrity, Kate, Schmidt, Bethany E. and Warr, Jason (eds.) Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Series: Emerald studies in culture, criminal justice and the arts. Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, pp. 217-230. ISBN 9781839097270

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Laidler, Karen and Leung, Helen (2021) A genealogy of gangs in Hong Kong. In: Brotherton, David C. and Gude, Rafael Jose (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138616110

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Van Hellemont, Elke (2020) Gangs and globalization. In: Pontell, Henry N. (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190264079 (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.434)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2018) The ghost of ethnography future. In: Rice, Stephen K. and Maltz, Michael D. (eds.) Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Springer: Cham, pp. 179-185. ISBN 9783319963150 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96316-7_14)

Batchelor, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661, Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Ling, Leona Li Ngai and Whittaker, Lisa (2017) (Re)Politicising young people: from Scotland’s Indyref to Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. In: Pickard, Sarah and Bessant, Judith (eds.) Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises. Series: Palgrave studies in young people and politics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-251. ISBN 9783319582498 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58250-4_13)

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Hobbs, Dick (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 (doi: 10.1093/he/9780198719441.003.0027)

Bartie, Angela and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2017) Speaking to the ‘Hard Men’: masculinities, violence and youth gangs in Glasgow, c. 1965-75. In: Abrams, Lynn and Ewan, Elizabeth L. (eds.) Nine Centuries of Man: Manhood and Masculinity in Scottish History. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 258-277. ISBN 9781474403894

Bartie, Angela and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2016) Researching crime and justice in Hong Kong. In: Chui, Wing Hong and Lo, T. Wing (eds.) Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong [2nd edition]. Routledge: London, pp. 118-134. ISBN 9781138888746

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752 (2014) We belong to Glasgow: the thirdspaces of youth ‘gangs’ and asylum seeker, refugee and migrant groups. In: Phillips, Coretta and Webster, Colin (eds.) New Directions in Race, Ethnicity and Crime. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 55-79. ISBN 9780415540490

Burman, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Johnstone, J., Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and McNeill, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-6482 (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

Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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.

Book Reviews

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2019) The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members. By V. R. Panfil (NYU Press, 2017, 312 pp. Paperback £21.99) Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town: Ghetto Chameleons. By M. Rosenkratz Lindegaard (Routledge, 2018, 290 pp. Hardcover £93.50) Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador. By S. Wolf (University of Texas Press, 2017, 320 pp. Paperback £17.99). British Journal of Criminology, 59(5), pp. 1260-1265. (doi: 10.1093/bjc/azz014)[Book Review]

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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]

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (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]

Research Reports or Papers

Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Irwin-Rogers, Keir, Gillon, Fern, McVie, Susan and Schwarze, Tilman ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-0408 (2024) Safe Space? The past, present and future of violence reduction in Scotland. Other. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Szakolczai, Janos Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0535-4994, Casey, Ryan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7672-1678, Cullen, Amy, Qvist-Baudry, Emily and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2023) Public Space CCTV: Research Findings. Documentation. Scottish Government.

Kjellgren, Richard, Hamilton-Smith, Niall and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2022) Criminal Grades? Contract cheating and student exploitation in Higher Education. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Hamilton-Smith, N., Clark, A., Graham, W., Mcbride, Maureen, Doyle, M. and Hobbs, D. (2018) Community Experiences of Serious Organised Crime in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Joe-Laidler, J.K., Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 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)

Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 and MacQueen, S. (2011) Evaluation of Early and Effective Intervention and Diversion from Prosecution in Dumfries and Galloway. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Fraser, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379, Burman, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5194, Batchelor, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1890-9661 and McVie, S. (2010) Youth violence in Scotland: a literature review. Project Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Mackenzie, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9294-4732 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2010) Communities and Community Safety: Theories, Concepts and Strategies. Discussion Paper. Community Safety Unit, The Scottish Government. (Unpublished)

Website

Piacentini, Teresa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-7752 and Fraser, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-4379 (2016) Back to Back: Revisiting Ethnographies Past, Present and Future. [Website]

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Grants

2020 - 2023 What Worked: Policy Mobility and the Public Health Approach to Violence. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

2017 – 2018    Reimagining Crime and Justice: An Alternative Guide. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Impact Acceleration).

2016 – 2018    Community Experiences of Serious and Organised Crime. Funded by the Scottish Government.

2014 – 2015    (Re)Imagining Gangs: A Study of Gang Identity in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Funded by the University of Hong Kong.

2013 – 2015    (Re)Imagining Youth: A Comparative Sociology of Youth Leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and Research Grants Council (HK).

2013 – 2015    Reducing Hong Kong's Youth Crime Through Community Intervention: An Evaluation of Operation Breakthrough. Funded by Operation Breakthrough.

2012 – 2015    How Young People Obtain Psychoactive Drugs in Hong Kong. Research Grants Council (HK).

2012 – 2014    Excavating the Walled City: Youth and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave. Funded by University of Hong Kong.

Supervision

Casey, R. (2017-) 'The lived experience of penal electronic monitoring' (PhD, University of Glasgow)

Jankowski, K.(2019- ) 'Dread and Confidence: Navigating Adulthood in Generation Rent' (PhD, University of Glasgow)

 

Alnasser, F. (2018) 'Youth transitions and social change in Kuwait: tensions between tradition and modernity' (PhD, University of Glasgow)

Smith, E. (2019) 'Illicit Markets in the Global City: The Cultural Property Trade in Hong Kong' (PhD, University of Glasgow)

Teaching

2015 – 2017    Course Coordinator: The Global Criminal Economy; Youth, Gangs & Globalization; Sociology of the City; Research Methods in Criminology – University of Glasgow, UK.

2011 – 2015    Course Coordinator: Social Problems; Youth & Delinquency; Youth Crime in the Global City; Methods of Research in Criminology – University of Hong Kong, HKSAR.

Research datasets

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2023

Szakolczai, J. M. , Casey, R. , Cullen, A., Qvist-Baudry, E. and Fraser, A. (2023) Public Space CCTV in Scotland: Police Scotland responses. [Data Collection]

Szakolczai, J. M. , Casey, R. , Cullen, A., Qvist-Baudry, E. and Fraser, A. (2023) Public space CCTV in Scotland: Local Authority responses. [Data Collection]

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Alistair Fraser

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