Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2013) Unequalled in pain. In: Why Prison? Cambridge Studies in Law and Society . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107030749
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2013) Justifications of punishment and questions of legitimacy. In: Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford. ISBN 9780199694969
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2013) The politics of prisoner legal rights. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52 (3). pp. 233-250. ISSN 0265-5527
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2013) Visualising an abolitionist real utopia: principles, policy and praxis. In: Crime, critique and utopia: themes for a critical criminology. Critical Criminological Perspectives . Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-1137009791
Codd, Helen Louise ORCID: 0000-0003-4495-9347 and Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2010) Controversial Issues in Prisons. Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK. ISBN 9780335223039
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 and Codd, Helen Louise ORCID: 0000-0003-4495-9347 (2009) Self inflicted deaths. In: Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press (OUP), London, pp. 83-102. ISBN 978-0-19-921554-6
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2009) Theories of punishment. In: Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press (OUP), London, pp. 83-102. ISBN 978-0-19-921554-6
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466 (2007) The Changing face of the prison in England: A critical review of the aims of imprisonment. In: The Handbook of Prisons. Routledge, pp. 49-72. ISBN 978-1-84392-185-1
Scott, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4176-0466, Barton, A, Corteen, K and Whyte, D (2006) Developing a criminological imagination. In: Expanding the Criminological Imagination: readings in critical criminologies. Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 978-1-84392-156-1