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The Scottish Association for the Study of Offending 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.

The Association was called the Scottish Association for the Study of Delinquency (SASD) until 2004 when a decision was made to update the name. In every other respect, the Association remains unchanged.

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 in Peebles on the 3rd weekend in November. It attracts distinguished speakers from both within and outwith Scotland. Recent contributors have included Dr Tapio Lappi-Seppala, Lord Woolf, Cathy Jamieson MSP, Minister for Justice, Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, the Solicitor General, and Professor Andrew Coyle.
2008 conference on "Towards a Scottish Penal Policy Consensus" 14th -16th November

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.

New

Glasgow Branch meeting dates and topics for 2008-9 are now available on the branches page. The session starts with a debate on the Scottish Law Commission's Recommendations in Relation to Underage Consensual Sex.
The annual 'Peebles' Conference Programme and registration forms are now online. See Annual Conference.
The Dumfries and Galloway branch conference will be on 19th September 2008.
SASO has a new administrator. Irene Cameron took over from Carol McNeill on the 7th January 2008.
Irene's details are:
Irene Cameron
Association Management Solutions,
PO Box 2781,
Glasgow
G61 3YL
Tel/fax 0141 560 4092

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.