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Decision Making Process of Jurors. (2017)
Book Chapter
Curley, L. (2017). Decision Making Process of Jurors. In B. Baker, R. Minhas, & L. Wilson (Eds.), Factbook: Psychology and Law. (2). European Association of Psychology and Law Student Society

No abstract available.

Use and Implementation of OCR Chapter 33AA in Section 11 Order Proceedings. (2017)
Report
Whitecross, R., & Lindsay, C. (2017). Use and Implementation of OCR Chapter 33AA in Section 11 Order Proceedings. Edinburgh: Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service

This report presents the findings of a small-scale study designed and undertaken by the researchers between October 2016 and February 2017. The research was commissioned by the Scottish Civil Justice Council. This chapter outlines the background to... Read More about Use and Implementation of OCR Chapter 33AA in Section 11 Order Proceedings..

Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 50, 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.02.004

This work is a critical analysis of how the main crime stakeholders (victim, offender and community) are represented within policy and legal statutes on restorative justice. The paper starts by sketching out the legal and policy archive of restorativ... Read More about Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context.

Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws. Critical Criminology, 25(3), 453-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9349-8

Within the scholarly literature on restorative justice, the ‘community’, as a distinctive crime stakeholder, has been the target of extensive research. This work provides an original interpretation of the underlying images of the community within pol... Read More about Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws.

Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Hallenberg, K. M., & Haddow, C. (2016). Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability. Law Teacher, 50(3), 352-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2016.1262985

The potential of higher education in advancing sustainability has been widely accepted and even partly realised, although a wholesale reorientation of core activities and curricula toward and embedded with sustainability is still an exception. But ev... Read More about Beyond criminal justice: connecting justice and sustainability.

Article 3 and Adoption in and from India and Nepal (2016)
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2016). Article 3 and Adoption in and from India and Nepal. In E. E. Sutherland, & L.-A. Barnes MacFarlane (Eds.), Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (213-230). Cambridge University Press

Nepal has experienced an increase in intercountry adoption in recent years. Following the opening up of authorisation to arrange adoptions, the number of child centres offering children for adoption significantly increased after 2000. The emergence i... Read More about Article 3 and Adoption in and from India and Nepal.

Innovation, entrepreneurship: learning lessons in uncertainty. (2016)
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2016). Innovation, entrepreneurship: learning lessons in uncertainty. In Innovations in Learning and Technology

What does it mean to teach innovation and entrepreneurship in professional degrees? The professions such as accountancy and law traditionally provide specialised knowledge and advice. As technology makes the professional’s knowledge more accessible,... Read More about Innovation, entrepreneurship: learning lessons in uncertainty..

Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale (2016)
Journal Article
Dodd, L. (2016). Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale. Journal of Legal History, 37(2), 121-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2016.1191587

While Craig's relationship to, and emergence from, the French legal humanist tradition has always been widely recognized, this paper constitutes a deeper analysis of the specific threads connecting Craig to the humanist literature of the sixteenth ce... Read More about Thomas Craig’s Aetiology of Law and Society: Literary Dependence and Independence in theJus Feudale.

The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges. (2015)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2015). The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges. Laws, 4(2), 296-313. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws4020296

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly as interpreted in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities General Comment No. 1, presents a significant challenge to all jurisdictions that equa... Read More about The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges..

Dignity in revolution. (2014)
Book Chapter
Moran, C. F. (2014). Dignity in revolution. In J. Carby-Hall (Ed.), Essays on human rights: a celebration of the life of Dr. Janusz Kochanowski. Ius et Lex Foundation

‘Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being,’ but the central responsibility in international human rights law is placed on the shoulders of the State to guarantee that freedom. Human rights law functions as a critical restraint on the po... Read More about Dignity in revolution..

Emerging voices: the contribution of international criminal tribunals and courts to the development and promotion of international human rights law (2014)
Digital Artefact
Moran, C. F. (2014). Emerging voices: the contribution of international criminal tribunals and courts to the development and promotion of international human rights law. [http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/04/emerging-voices-contribution-international-criminal-tribunals-courts-development-promotion-international-human-rights-law/]. http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/04/emerging-voices-contribution-international-criminal-tribunals-courts-development-promotion-international-human-rights-law/

No abstract available.

F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm? (2014)
Journal Article
Macfarlane, L.-A. B. (2014). F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm?. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(2), 284-289. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2014.0214

Notwithstanding extensive media coverage and commentary, the recent judgment of
the High Court Family Division in F v F1 is not one that tells us very much about
children’s rights or, indeed, their welfare. Instead, the case reveals the complexitie... Read More about F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm?.

Mediazione dei conflitti e declinazioni della in-sicurezza urbana. L'esperienza fiorentina (Mediation and declinations of urban in-security. The Florence experience) (2013)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2013). Mediazione dei conflitti e declinazioni della in-sicurezza urbana. L'esperienza fiorentina (Mediation and declinations of urban in-security. The Florence experience). In E. Urso (Ed.), Le ragioni degli altri. Mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo (525-534). Firenze University Press

Elena Urso (a cura di), Le ragioni degli altri. Mediazione e famiglia tra conflitto e dialogo : una prospettiva comparatistica ed interdisciplinare, ISBN 978-88-6655-323-6 (print) ISBN 978-88-6655-324-3 (online PDF) ISBN 978-88-6655-465-3 (online EPU... Read More about Mediazione dei conflitti e declinazioni della in-sicurezza urbana. L'esperienza fiorentina (Mediation and declinations of urban in-security. The Florence experience).

Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. H., Pitchford, M., Atkins, R., Webster, A., Pollard, J., Hunt, B., Price, E., Morgan, S., Stoika, A., Dughila, R., Maftei, S., & Sendrea, G. (2010, September). Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites. Presented at 2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies

Facial composites are traditionally made by witnesses and victims describing and selecting parts of criminals’ faces, but this method is hard to do and has been shown to be generally ineffective. We have been working on an alternative system called E... Read More about Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites.