Number of items: 38.
2025
McPherson, Rachel
(2025)
The problem of complex defence strategies: excessive self-defence as a remedy to cases involving claims of accident and self-defence.
Criminal Law Review, 2025(5),
pp. 264-280.
Fletcher, Maria
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8725-4895, McPherson, Rachel, Peevers, Charlie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-421X and Stevenson-McCabe, Seonaid
(2025)
Women, Law and Legal Work in Scotland: Dialogues about our Past, Present and Future.
Edinburgh University Press.
(Accepted for Publication)
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.
McPherson, Rachel
(2024)
Reforming the landscape for women who kill their abusers in Scotland.
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy,
(doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.3514)
(Early Online Publication)
Wood, Jill, Murphy, Catherine, Mitchell, Lynsey and McPherson, Rachel
(2024)
Outdated, Harmful and Never in the Public Interest: The Urgent Need to Modernise Scotland’s Abortion Law and Prevent Prosecutions.
Documentation.
Engender.
2023
McPherson, Rachel
(2023)
News media reporting on Scottish cases in which women kill following domestic abuse.
Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism,
(doi: 10.1177/14648849231207677)
(Early Online Publication)
McPherson, Rachel M.
(2023)
Women Who Kill, Criminal Law and Domestic Abuse.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032052878
(In Press)
McPherson, Rachel
(2023)
Killings following domestic abuse: public opinion, law reform and the future direction of Scots law.
Juridical Review, 2023(2),
pp. 97-112.
McPherson, Rachel
(2023)
Fit for purpose in today’s society? Reflecting on provocation pleas in modern Scotland.
Journal of Criminal Law, 87(2),
pp. 97-108.
(doi: 10.1177/00220183231165813)
McPherson, Rachel
(2023)
Reflecting on legal responses to intimate partner femicide in Scotland.
Violence Against Women, 29(3-4),
pp. 686-704.
(doi: 10.1177/10778012221094068)
(PMID:35989666)
McPherson, Rachel
(2023)
Prosecuting and sentencing domestic abuse in Scotland.
In: Bettinson, Vanessa, Speed, Ana, Richardson, Kayliegh and Burton, Mandy (eds.)
Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
Edward Elgar.
(Accepted for Publication)
2022
McPherson, Rachel
(2022)
Women accused of killing with others: experiences of the Scottish criminal justice system.
Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 61(4),
pp. 484-501.
(doi: 10.1111/hojo.12490)
McPherson, Rachel
(2022)
Women and self-defence: an empirical and doctrinal analysis.
International Journal of Law in Context, 18(4),
pp. 461-475.
(doi: 10.1017/S1744552322000131)
McPherson, Rachel
(2022)
Unintended consequences of non-harassment orders: child contact decision-making.
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 44(4),
pp. 495-511.
(doi: 10.1080/09649069.2022.2136714)
McPherson, Rachel, Gormley, Jay and Wheate, Rhonda
(2022)
The sentencing of offences involving domestic abuse in Scotland.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
McPherson, Rachel
(2022)
An empirical study of criminal defences.
Criminal Law Review, 2022(4),
pp. 307-318.
McPherson, Rachel
(2022)
S. Cowan, C. Kennedy and V. Munro (eds), Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 472pp, hb £95.00.
Modern Law Review, 85(2),
pp. 563-566.
(doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12660)[Book Review]
2021
Biggs, Hannah, Reid, Susan, Attygalle, Kaushi, Vosnaki, Konstantina, McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus
(2021)
Public Perceptions of Sentencing in Scotland: Qualitative research exploring sexual offences.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh, UK.
Creutzfeldt, Naomi, Gill, Chris, Cornelis, Marine and McPherson, Rachel
(2021)
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy-Poor Consumers: Just Energy?
Hart Publishing.
ISBN 9781509939435
McPherson, Rachel
(2021)
Legal change and legal inertia: understanding and contextualising Scottish cases in which women kill their abusers.
Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 5(2),
pp. 289-306.
(doi: 10.1332/239868021X16099485271900)
McPherson, Rachel
(2021)
The Sentencing Process Guideline Analysis of Consultation Responses.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council.
McPherson, Rachel
(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)
McPherson, Rachel, Burgess, Nick
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-376X, Gormely, Jay and Tata, Cyrus
(2021)
Sexual offences involving rape literature review.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
McPherson, Rachel, Gormely, Jay, Burgess, Nicholas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-376X and Tata, Cyrus
(2021)
Sexual offences involving sexual assault literature review.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
Reid, Susan, Biggs, Hannah, Attygalle, Kaushi, Vosnaki, Konstantina, McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus
(2021)
Public Perceptions of Sentencing in Scotland: Qualitative research exploring causing death by driving offences.
Documentation.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
2020
Gormley, Jay, McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus
(2020)
Sentence Discounting: Sentencing and Plea Decision-Making.
Documentation.
Sentencing Council, Edinburgh.
McPherson, Rachel
(2020)
Sutherland v HM Advocate: the right to privacy, evidence gathering and the integrity of justice in a digital age.
Juridical Review, 2020(2),
pp. 104-109.
Creutzfeldt, N., Gill, C., McPherson, R. and Cornelis, M.
(2020)
The social and local dimensions of governance of energy poverty: adaptive responses to state remoteness.
Journal of Consumer Policy, 43,
pp. 635-658.
(doi: 10.1007/s10603-019-09442-z)
2019
McPherson, Rachel
(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)
McPherson, Rachel
(2019)
Donegan v HM Advocate: a step in the right direction for female complainers in sexual offences?
Edinburgh Law Review, 23(3),
pp. 406-411.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2019.0577)
McPherson, Rachel
(2019)
Entrapment and the road to fraud.
Juridical Review, 2019(3),
pp. 277-281.
2018
McPherson, Rachel and Tata, Cyrus
(2018)
Causing Death by Driving Offences: Literature Review.
Other.
Scottish Sentencing Council, Edinburgh, UK.
2017
McPherson, Rachel
(2017)
Independent Review of Hate Crime Legislation: Analysis of Questionnaire Responses.
Other.
Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK.
2015
McPherson, Rachel
(2015)
Pamela R Ferguson and Claire McDiarmid, 'Scots Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (www.euppublishing.com), 2014. lxv + 701 pp. ISBN 9781845861308. £40.
Edinburgh Law Review, 19(2),
pp. 297-298.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2015.0290)[Book Review]
2013
McPherson, Rachel
(2013)
The procedure of agreed narratives: Procedural efficiency or a concern for justice?
Juridical Review, 141,
2012
McPherson, Rachel
(2012)
Fatal self-defence against rape: A call for clarification in Scots Law.
Juridical Review, 111,
McPherson, Rachel
(2012)
Domestic abuse and partner homicide.
SCOLAG Legal Journal, 411(4),
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