Robert McLean
University of the West of Scotland
42 Papers
101 Citations
Robert McLean is an academic researcher from University of the West of Scotland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Organised crime & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 41 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert McLean include University College West & Northumbria University.
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Papers
Working County Lines: Child Criminal Exploitation and Illicit Drug Dealing in Glasgow and Merseyside.
TL;DR: Evidence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) in County Lines activity is found, often as a result of debt bondage; but also, cases of young people working the lines of their own volition to obtain financial and status rewards.
Voices of Quiet Desistance in UK Prisons: Exploring Emergence of New Identities Under Desistance Constraint
TL;DR: The authors explored desistance dynamics within prison, and what gang members say about its phenomenology, finding that desistance-oriented dispositions develop gradually once gang ties, originating in the street gang, lose the resonance they once exercised on conformity to offending behaviour.
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Situating gangs within Scotland's illegal drugs market(s)
TL;DR: Mclean et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the extent of gang involvement in the UK's illegal drug market and found that youth criminal gangs are primarily involved in commercially motivated dealing at the low-to mid-levels, including bulk-buying between the retail to wholesale markets.
‘It's as if you're not in the Jail, as if you're not a Prisoner’: Young Male Offenders’ Experiences of Incarceration, Prison Chaplaincy, Religion and Spirituality in Scotland and Denmark
TL;DR: For example, the authors explored Scottish and Danish young male offenders' experiences of incarceration, prison chaplaincy, religion and spirituality, and found that the holistic chaplaincies that they were offered helped to nurture some initial turning points that stimulated identity and behaviour change linked to transitional masculinity, and in some cases to an increased commitment towards criminal desistance.
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