School of Law

Criminal law and criminal justice recent publications

Chalmers, J. , Leverick, F. and Munro, V. E. (2022) Beyond doubt: the case against ‘not proven’. Modern Law Review, 85(4), pp. 847-878. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12707)

Farmer, L. (2022) The ‘market’ in criminal law theory. Modern Law Review, 85(2), pp. 435-460. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12687)

McPherson, R. (2021) Diminished responsibility post codification: lost opportunities, tensions and gendered applications. Edinburgh Law Review, 25(2), pp. 173-191. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2021.0693)

Taylor, A. and Ó Floinn, M. (2021) Bitcoin burglaries and the Theft Act 1968. Criminal Law Review, 2021(3), pp. 163-190.

Chalmers, J. , Leverick, F. and Munro, V. E. (2021) The provenance of what is proven: exploring (mock) jury deliberation in Scottish rape trials. Journal of Law and Society, 48(2), pp. 226-249. (doi: 10.1111/jols.12287)

Chalmers, J. , Leverick, F. and Munro, V. E. (2021) A modern history of the not proven verdict. Edinburgh Law Review, 25(2), pp. 151-172. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2021.0692)

Farmer, L. (2020) Civil order, markets, and the intelligibility of the criminal law. University of Toronto Law Journal, 70(S1), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.3138/utlj.2019-0063)

Farmer, L. (2019) Trafficking, the Anti-Slavery Project and the making of the modern criminal law. In: Herlin-Karnell, E., Haverkamp, R. and Lernestedt, C. (eds.) What is Wrong with Human Trafficking? Critical Perspectives on the Law. Hart Publishing, pp. 13-36. ISBN 9781509921515 (doi: 10.5040/9781509921546.ch-002)

Ormston, R., Chalmers, J. , Leverick, F. , Munro, V. and Murray, L. (2019) Scottish Jury Research: Findings from a Large Scale Mock Jury Study. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

McPherson, R. (2019) Battered Woman Syndrome, diminished responsibility and women who kill: insights from Scottish case law. Journal of Criminal Law, 83(5), pp. 381-393. (doi: 10.1177/0022018319858506)

Kelly, C. (2019) Juvenile Justice in Victorian Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474427340

Ó Floinn, M. (2019) Review of the Model Law on Electronic Evidence. Other. Commonwealth Secretariat.

Farmer, L. (2018) Innocence, the burden of proof and fairness in the criminal trial: revisiting Woolmington v DPP (1935). In: Jackson, J. D. and Summers, S. J. (eds.) Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings. Hart Publishing, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9781782258353 (doi: 10.5040/9781782258384.ch-004)

Chalmers, J. and Leverick, F. (2018) Methods of Conveying Information to Jurors: An Evidence Review. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

McPherson, R. and Tata, C. (2018) Causing Death by Driving Offences: Literature Review. Other. Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh, UK.

Chalmers, J. and Leverick, F. (2018) Criminal law in the shadows: creating offences in delegated legislation. Legal Studies, 38(2), pp. 221-241. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2017.18)

Chalmers, J. and Leverick, F. (2017) A Comparative Analysis of Hate Crime Legislation: A Report to the Hate Crime Legislation Review. Other. Scottish Government, Edinburgh.

Farmer, L. (2017) DPP v. Morgan. In: Handler, P., Mares, H. and Williams, I. (eds.) Landmark Cases in Criminal Law. Hart. ISBN 9781849466899

Ó Floinn, M. (2017) The concept of idem in the European Courts: extricating the inextricable link in European double jeopardy law. Columbia Journal of European Law, 24, pp. 75-109.

Chalmers, J. and Leverick, F. eds. (2017) The Criminal Law of Scotland, 4th Edition, Volume II. Series: SULI. W. Green. ISBN 9780414057463

Farmer, L. (2016) Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199568642 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568642.001.0001)