Professor Beth Weaver
Small Group Project 2022-23
Generative Justice: Exploring how communities re/create solidarity after crime and punishment
With Fergus McNeill & Mary Corcoran
This project draws on the extensive experience and skills of the Co-Investigators and their networks (academic and activist) to explore the concept of 'Generative Justice' and to devise an approach to studying and developing it together.
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McNeill, F., Corcoran, M., & Weaver, B. (Eds.). (2026).
Generative Justice. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
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Biography
Dr Beth Weaver is Professor of Criminal and Social Justice in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, specialising in Criminology and Criminal Justice Social Work.
Beth is actively engaged in a number of research networks, and has led on a number of research projects and knowledge exchange activities with specific interests in desistance, compliance, the collateral consequences of criminal records, user involvement and co-production and the use of through-the-prison-gate social cooperative structures of employment. All of her research has an applied focus on penal reform. Beth has also published widely on a range of subjects relating to criminal justice policies, practices, and research.
Beth is actively engaged in a number of research networks, and has led on a number of research projects and knowledge exchange activities with specific interests in desistance, compliance, the collateral consequences of criminal records, user involvement and co-production and the use of through-the-prison-gate social cooperative structures of employment. All of her research has an applied focus on penal reform. Beth has also published widely on a range of subjects relating to criminal justice policies, practices, and research.
Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26