| Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime

The research team is still busy contacting everyone who participated in the Edinburgh Study while they were in high school.

To make things a little easier for study members, we have created a secure way to submit your contact information online. Simply visit http://edin.ac/edinburgh-study and follow the instructions.

Members can still return their contact forms by post, in the pre-paid envelopes that were included in their information packs. If you’ve not received your pack, please contact the research team via our contact page, or emailing us at edinstudy.law@ed.ac.uk.

The winner of the first prize draw will be announced soon. Keep your eyes peeled and fingers crossed…it could be you!

In 2019, the Edinburgh Study celebrates its 21st year! Over the course of the last twenty-one years the study has contributed substantially to public policy and practice in Scotland and has become recognised internationally as a landmark study of youth crime and justice.

To celebrate its success, the study co-directors produced a short briefing paper outlining the research highlights – including findings and impacts – from the Edinburgh Study.

Thanks to a grant from the Nuffield Foundation, the Edinburgh Study is entering a new phase of data collection. The aim of this latest phase of the study is to understand how events and circumstances in childhood and adolescence have impacted on the lives of study members now that they are adults in their early 30s. In particular, it will look at different criminal justice pathways, from the teenage years into early adulthood, and how these have impacted on the longer-term life-chances of individuals.

The research, which will begin in late 2019, will involve updating information on criminal convictions (where applicable); a short online survey of all cohort members; and face-to-face interviews with around 200 study members. Achieving a good response rate from study members is imperative as it will add to the rich information that the study already holds. This phase of the study will have important implications for youth and adult criminal justice policy and practice in terms of: ‘what works’ to help people desist from offending; what are the longer term outcomes of different forms of policy interventions; and how to support people as they age through the criminal justice system.

For further information on the new phase of the Edinburgh Study please visit our Study Members page.

The Edinburgh Law School is seeking to appoint a dynamic, committed and enthusiastic Research Associate to work with Professors Lesley McAra and Susan McVie on Phase 8 of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime.
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• At a formal ceremony at the Royal Society in London on 9th July 2019, the Edinburgh Study Co-Directors – Professor Lesley McAra CBE and Professor Susan McVie OBE FRSE – were announced as this year’s winners of the ESRC Prize for Outstanding Public Policy Impact.
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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has announced the finalists for the Celebrating Impact Prize 2019, including Edinburgh Law School Professors Lesley McAra and Susan McVie.

The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize, which is in its seventh year, recognises “the success of ESRC-funded researchers in achieving and enabling outstanding economic or social impact from excellent social science research”.

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