Susan McVie

Articles by: Susan McVie

Changing patterns of violence in Glasgow and London: Is there evidence of Scottish exceptionalism?

3rd February 2019

Prof. Susan McVie, University of Edinburgh

ANALYSIS: In the mid-2000s, Glasgow was known as the murder capital of Europe. Now London Mayor Sadiq Khan is trying some of Scotland's solutions - but will they travel? Prof. Susan McVie, Ellie Bates, and Rebecca Pillinger of the University of Edinburgh examine long-term changes in violence and ask whether there really is evidence of Scottish exceptionalism.

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Susan McVie
Chair of Quantitative Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.
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Professor Susan McVie OBE FRSE is Chair of Quantitative Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. She is Director of the Understanding Inequalities project; Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime; Co-Director of the Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland; Co-Director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network; and an Associate Member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Susan is an expert in advanced quantitative methods and their application within criminology. Her research interests include: crime and justice inequalities; the crime drop in Scotland; youth crime and juvenile justice; criminal careers through the life-course; patterns of violence and homicide; youth gangs and knife crime; policing and crime reduction; stop and search; and police use of biometric data. Susan received (with Professor Lesley McAra) the Howard League for Penal Reform Research Medal in 2013 and the University of Edinburgh’s Chancellor’s Award for Impact from HRH Princess Anne in 2016. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014 and received an OBE for services to social science in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2016.