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The Scottish Association for the Study of Offending (formerly the Scottish Association for the Study of Delinquency) aims to create a common meeting ground, both nationally and locally, for all the professional groups and individuals concerned with the issues raised by offending in Scotland. It provides an opportunity for an exchange of views by its members, enabling them to explain their own problems and to appreciate the problems of others engaged in related fields.

Association activities

There are SASO Branches in Aberdeen, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fife, Perth, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Orkney and Shetland. Each branch carries out its own programme of meetings and local conferences.

SASO organises an annual residential conference on the 3rd weekend in November. It attracts distinguished speakers from both within and outwith Scotland. Recent contributors have included Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, Professor Bill Whyte, Chief Constable Stephen House, Dr Tapio Lappi-Seppala, Lord Woolf, Kenny MacAskill MSP, Minister for Justice, Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, the Solicitor General, and Professor Andrew Coyle.

The Association publishes The Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies annually. It contains original articles, research briefings, reviews and conference reports on criminal justice in Scotland.

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The 2010 Annual Conference is to be held at Dunblane on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th November and will consider 'Managing Risk and Reintegration'. The full programme and registration form are now available here.

Forthcoming branch events

Branch events are held regularly throughout the year. Check SASO Branches for events in your area.

The Scottish Association for the Study of Offending

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Object of the Association

"To initiate, encourage and promote as an independent Scottish body, study and research by all means into the causes, prevention and treatment of delinquency and crime, and to co-ordinate and consolidate existing work of that and like nature, and to give publicity to such work, and to secure co-operation between bodies, associations or persons engaged in any research or work or activity having objects similar or akin to those of the Association."

Registered Scottish Charity No:SC008124

Honorary President: The Rt Hon Lord Gill
Chair: Professor Alec Spencer

SASO's work: Sheriff Brian Donald introducing Dr Andrew McLellan (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland) at a lecture given to Fife branch in 2007.