Dr Jay Gormley
- Lecturer (School of Law)
Publications
2025
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2025)
The gravest inefficiency of plea bargaining and the consequences for rehabilitation and reintegration.
Journal of Law and Society, 52(2),
pp. 249-268.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.12531)
2024
McPherson, Rachel, Burgess, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-376X and Gormley, Jay
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2024)
The sentencing of offences involving stalking in Scotland. Literature review.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and McPherson, Rachel
(2024)
Rape Sentencing Guideline. Non-standard consultation response.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and Tata, Cyrus
(2024)
Guilty pleas, sentencing and sentence ‘discounting’: who is ‘sentence discounting’ really for?
In: Langer, Máximo, Price, David and Price, Dallas (eds.)
Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice.
Series: Research Handbooks on Criminal Law and Justice.
Edward Elgar.
ISBN 9781802206661
(In Press)
2023
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X, O'Malley, Tom, Roberts, Julian, Spohn, Cassia and Tata, Cyrus
(2023)
Assessing Methodological Approaches to Sentencing Data and Analysis: Final Report.
Other.
Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee, Judicial Council of Ireland, Ireland.
2022
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2022)
Fines: A review of the sanction, its use and operation, and research evidence.
Other.
Sentencing Academy.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X, Hamilton, Melissa and Belton, Ian
(2022)
The Effectiveness of Sentencing Options on Reoffending.
Other.
Sentencing Council of England and Wales.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2022)
The inefficiency of plea bargaining.
Journal of Law and Society, 49(2),
pp. 277-293.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.12360)
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X, Roberts, Julian, Pina- Sánchez, Jose, Tata, Cyrus and Veiga, Ana
(2022)
The Methodological Challenges of Comparative Sentencing Research.
Other.
Scottish Sentencing Council.
2021
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and Tata, Cyrus
(2021)
Remorse and sentencing in a world of plea bargaining.
In: Tudor, Steven, Weisman, Richard and Rossmanith, Kate (eds.)
Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032104768
(doi: 10.4324/9780429001062-4)
2019
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and Tata, Cyrus
(2019)
To plead? or not to plead? 'Guilty' is the question. Re-thinking plea decision-making in Anglo-American countries.
In: Spohn, Cassia and Brennan, Pauline (eds.)
Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century.
Routledge.
ISBN 9780367136499
(doi: 10.4324/9780429027765-11)
Articles
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2025)
The gravest inefficiency of plea bargaining and the consequences for rehabilitation and reintegration.
Journal of Law and Society, 52(2),
pp. 249-268.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.12531)
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2022)
The inefficiency of plea bargaining.
Journal of Law and Society, 49(2),
pp. 277-293.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.12360)
Book Sections
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and Tata, Cyrus
(2024)
Guilty pleas, sentencing and sentence ‘discounting’: who is ‘sentence discounting’ really for?
In: Langer, Máximo, Price, David and Price, Dallas (eds.)
Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice.
Series: Research Handbooks on Criminal Law and Justice.
Edward Elgar.
ISBN 9781802206661
(In Press)
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and Tata, Cyrus
(2021)
Remorse and sentencing in a world of plea bargaining.
In: Tudor, Steven, Weisman, Richard and Rossmanith, Kate (eds.)
Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032104768
(doi: 10.4324/9780429001062-4)
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and Tata, Cyrus
(2019)
To plead? or not to plead? 'Guilty' is the question. Re-thinking plea decision-making in Anglo-American countries.
In: Spohn, Cassia and Brennan, Pauline (eds.)
Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century.
Routledge.
ISBN 9780367136499
(doi: 10.4324/9780429027765-11)
Research Reports or Papers
McPherson, Rachel, Burgess, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-376X and Gormley, Jay
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2024)
The sentencing of offences involving stalking in Scotland. Literature review.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X and McPherson, Rachel
(2024)
Rape Sentencing Guideline. Non-standard consultation response.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X, O'Malley, Tom, Roberts, Julian, Spohn, Cassia and Tata, Cyrus
(2023)
Assessing Methodological Approaches to Sentencing Data and Analysis: Final Report.
Other.
Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee, Judicial Council of Ireland, Ireland.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X
(2022)
Fines: A review of the sanction, its use and operation, and research evidence.
Other.
Sentencing Academy.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X, Hamilton, Melissa and Belton, Ian
(2022)
The Effectiveness of Sentencing Options on Reoffending.
Other.
Sentencing Council of England and Wales.
Gormley, Jay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-503X, Roberts, Julian, Pina- Sánchez, Jose, Tata, Cyrus and Veiga, Ana
(2022)
The Methodological Challenges of Comparative Sentencing Research.
Other.
Scottish Sentencing Council.