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  • Criminal law and markets
  • Criminal trials and rape shield legislation
  • Cybercrime and jurisdiction
  • Jury decision making
  • Killing following domestic abuse
  • Scots criminal law
  • Sensitive records in sexual offence cases
  • Public perceptions of sentence discounting

Current research projects

We currently have several research projects in the area of criminal law and criminal justice, including the following:

  • An analysis of the use of private information in Scottish criminal trials and the Scottish rape shield legislation (Keane)
  • Criminal law and markets (Farmer)
  • Cryptocurrencies and the criminal law (Ó Floinn)
  • Cybercrime and jurisdiction (Ó Floinn)
  • Jury decision making (Chalmers and Leverick)
  • Public perceptions of sentence discounting (Gormley)
  • The recovery and disclosure of sensitive records in Scottish sexual offence cases (Keane)
  • Scots criminal law: a rational reconstruction (Chalmers and Leverick)
  • Translating and understanding cases where women kill following domestic abuse (McPherson)

A full list of publications by our researchers can be found on their staff profiles:

  • James Chalmers
  • Lindsay Farmer
  • Jay Gormley
  • Eamon Keane
  • Louise Kennefick
  • Fiona Leverick
  • Rachel McPherson
  • Micheál Ó Floinn
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