Fergus McNeill

Fergus McNeill publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fergus McNeill sits on this spectrum.

Fergus McNeill D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fergus McNeill sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• A desistance paradigm for offender management

  Fergus McNeill

  1003
  Citations

• The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime

  Ros Burnett;Fergus McNeill

  436
  Citations

• Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective

  Fergus McNeill

  405
  Citations

• How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance

  F. McNeill;S. Farrall;C. Lightowler;S. Maruna

  300
  Citations

• Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management

  Elizabeth Weaver;Fergus Mcneill

  299
  Citations

• Exploring the dynamics of compliance with community penalties

  Gwen Robinson;Fergus McNeill

  270
  Citations

• 21st century social work: reducing re-offending - key practice skills

  F. McNeill;S. Batchelor;R. Burnett;J. Knox

  247
  Citations

• Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: penal adaptation and misadaptation

  Fergus McNeill;Nicola Burns;Simon Halliday;Neil Hutton

  217
  Citations

• What works and what's just?

  Fergus McNeill

  203
  Citations

• Giving up and giving back : desistance, generativity and social work with offenders

  F. McNeill;S. Maruna

  184
  Citations

• Towards Effective Practice in Offender Supervision

  Fergus McNeill

  174
  Citations

• Lifelines: Desistance, Social Relations, and Reciprocity

  Beth Weaver;Fergus McNeill

  156
  Citations

• Street-level bureaucracy, interprofessional relations, and coping mechanisms: a study of criminal justice social workers in the sentencing process

  Simon Halliday;Nicola Burns;Neil Hutton;Fergus McNeill

  149
  Citations

• Desistance-focused probation practice

  F. McNeill

  139
  Citations

• Offender Supervision in Europe

  Fergus McNeill;Kristel Beyens

  133
  Citations

• The Quality of Probation Supervision - A Literature Review

  J. Shapland;A. Bottoms;S. Farrall;F. McNeill

  126
  Citations

• Desistance and criminal justice in Scotland

  Fergus McNeill

  126
  Citations

• Mass supervision, misrecognition and the ‘Malopticon’:

  Fergus McNeill

  121
  Citations

• Reexamining Evidence-Based Practice in Community Corrections: Beyond “A-Confined View” of What Works:

  Fergus McNeill;Steve Farrall;Claire Lightowler;Shadd Maruna

  120
  Citations

• Assisting and Advising The Sentencing Decision Process: The Pursuit of 'Quality' in Pre-Sentence Reports

  Cyrus Tata;Nicola Burns;Simon Halliday;Neil Hutton

  118
  Citations