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Natalie Kyneswood Awarded Midland Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship
CJC Researcher, Natalie Kyneswood has been awarded a prestigious ESRC doctoral scholarship from the newly formed Midland Graduate School to examine the implementation of special measures in collaboration with the legal profession. Focusing on multi-defendant sex cases, Natalie's Ph.D. will investigate the impact of pre-recorded evidence on the quality and credibility of evidence, trial procedure, substantive rights and trial philosophy and whether the recent introduction of pre-recorded cross-examination under s. 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 delivers a fair trial for witnesses as well as defendants. Her methodology involves a 12-month secondment to JUSTICE, working as a co-researcher on JUSTICE's 'What is a Trial?' Working Party, co-producing data on the efficacy of legal reforms, including special measures, and the relevance of adversarial, professional culture from a user perspective to provide recommendations for policymakers and inform her Ph.D. For more information about the 'What is a Trial' Working Party, please visit .
Professor Scott Decker to kick off Mannheim Centre Seminar Series 2017-2018
Professor Scott Decker will be speaking about "The Promise of Ethnography: Gangs, Active Offenders and Policy" on 11 October 2017. For further details please see:
Professor Jacqueline S. Hodgson presents paper at conference of the European Society of Criminology 2017
The 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology is currently being held in Cardiff, UK. In today's session, Professor Jacqueline S. Hodgson of the 糖心TV's Criminal Justice Centre presented a paper titled "The CCRC, the applicant and her lawyer: a disruption of procedural models".
Kim Wade at ALSO and Latitude Festivals
Kim Wade will present her research on false memory at , as well as this summer.
“I will discuss how and why our memories become distorted and the most recent developments in false memory science. You may be surprised to learn how malleable your memory is, but don’t worry, you’ll also discover why memory distortions, often, are a very good thing.”
‘’, a new book by Dr Henrique Carvalho, offers the latest addition to the Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice published by OUP (Oxford University Press).
This new book seeks to understand where the impulse for prevention in criminal law comes from, and why this preventive dimension seems to be expanding in recent times.
The series aims to cover all aspects of criminal law and procedure including criminal evidence and encompassing both practical and theoretical works.