Dr Marguerite Schinkel
- Lecturer (Sociology)
telephone: 0141 3308257
email: Marguerite.Schinkel@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Marguerite Schinkel is a lecturer in Criminology and a member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. She joined the University in October 2013 as an ESRC Future Leader Research Fellow. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2013 and previoulsy worked as a researcher for the Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland. She is the author of a book, Lives Sentenced: Punishment, Adaptation and Desistance, published by Palgrave in 2014, and lots of journal articles (see publications).
Research interests
Marguerite's main research interests are the experiences of those who are punished by the criminal justice system, the implications of these experiences for the philosophy and practice of punishment, how narratives are constructed and their impact on the way experiences are interpreted. She welcomes PhD enquiries on any of these topics.
Her post-doctoral research examined how those who offend persistently, but not necessarily seriously, make sense of the series of punishments they undergo. It involved involved life history interviews with 37 men and women who had been punished over a period of around ten years. Seventeen of these participants were interviewed again around two years later, to see how interpretations and meaning making processes had changed over time. In 2019, a third round of the research is ongoing, funded by Community Justice Scotland, with around 10 participants to be interviewed again. The research has been developed into a graphic novel and website, both available at my-sentence.com. For her doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh, Marguerite examined how long-term prisoners give meaning to their sentence. Both before and during her PhD she was a researcher at the Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland, where she worked on, amongst other things, the evaluation of Routes out of Prison - a peer-support project for short-term prisoners before and after their release. She has also been self-employed as a researcher. She studied for her Masters by Research in Community Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, with her MSc thesis focusing on the experiences of men who are sent to prison after making positive changes in their lives in the period between offence and sentencing. Her first degree was in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Stirling, where her dissertation examined the justification of imprisonment. Her post-doctoral research examined how those who offend persistently, but not necessarily seriously, make sense of the series of punishments they undergo. It involved involved life history interviews with 37 men and women who had been punished over a period of around ten years. Seventeen of these participants were interviewed again around two years later, to see how interpretations and meaning making processes had changed over time. For more information on this project see: Lives Sentenced: Experiences of Repeated Punishment. Currently a third round of the research is ongoing, funded by Community Justice Scotland, with around 10 participants to be interviewed again.
For her doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh, Marguerite examined how long-term prisoners give meaning to their sentence. At the Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland, her work involved amongst other things, the evaluation of Routes out of Prison - a peer-support project for short-term prisoners before and after their release. She has also been self-employed as a researcher. She studied for her Masters by Research in Community Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, with her MSc thesis focusing on the experiences of men who are sent to prison after making positive changes in their lives in the period between offence and sentencing. Her first degree was in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Stirling, where her dissertation examined the justification of imprisonment.
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.
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