{"title":"The Case for Restoring the Right of Silence","authors":"Hannah Quirk","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126082092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Should the Criminal Law Respond to the ‘Special Status’ of Children?","authors":"Heather Keating","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues the case for reform to three areas of the substantive criminal law: the age of criminal responsibility, fitness to plead as applied to children, and the creation of a defence of developmental immaturity. It is argued that these are three key areas where the law does not reflect appropriately the special status of children and their immaturity. In doing so, it takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing upon liberal theories of responsibility as well as, for example, findings from neuroscience and child development studies, international conventions and the law in other jurisdictions.","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114999164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rationalising Civil Preventive Orders: Opportunities for Reform","authors":"S. Shute","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-002","url":null,"abstract":"If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? The editors put this question to nine leading academics and practitioners. The first nine chapters of the collection present their responses in the form of legal reform proposals, with topics ranging across criminal law, criminal justice and evidence – including confiscation, control orders, criminal attempts, homicide, assisted dying, the special status of children, time restrictions on prosecution, the right to silence, and special measures in court","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129665714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Time Limit on Prosecutions for Underage Sexual Intercourse in the Sexual Offences Act 1956: A Continuing Problem","authors":"J. Rogers","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-007","url":null,"abstract":"committed when that Act was in force, ie, up until 30 April 2004. In relation to men who, before then, had (possibly) consensual sex with girls who were aged 13 or over, but under 16, there arises a serious problem. There was a time limit for commencing prosecutions of one year from the alleged commission of the offence under section 6 of the SOA 1956, which has been assumed to continue to apply. So it has long been impermissible to charge","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122804446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The CPS, Policy-Making and Assisted Dying: Towards a ‘Freedom’ Approach","authors":"A. Sanders","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-005","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016 I evaluated the CPS after its first 30 years of existence. I did this through the lens of the ‘freedom model’. This approach acknowledges that most people agree over the principal aims and values of criminal justice, at least at the level of rhetoric. Few people would argue against convicting the guilty, protecting the innocent, protecting everyone from arbitrary and oppressive treatment, treating victims with respect, and pursuing all this efficiently and proportionately. The problem is that these values and interests often clash. The goals are not controversial, but their prioritisation often is. ‘Freedom’ can be a kind of common currency that allows us to weigh up, in any situation, how to prioritise. Criminal justice practices reduce the freedom of suspects, but some reduce it more than others. Compare, for example, out-of court disposals by the CPS with prosecutions: the former usually reduce freedom less than the latter. And some crimes – eg sexual offences erode more freedom for victims and society at large than do others – eg driving offences. Convicting guilty careless drivers, then, while desirable, should not be as high a priority as convicting sexual offenders. It will be evident from these examples that current law and practice sometimes prioritise ‘freedom’, but frequently do not. In an attempt to see what the ‘freedom’ model would look like concretely, I examined how far the CPS operationalised the three core criminal justice values that are integral to it: ‘Justice’, ‘Democracy’ and the ‘Three Es’ (efficiency, effectiveness and economy). Again, these are not controversial in themselves, but prioritisation between and within them is. I looked at how a range of policies and powers were formulated, interpreted and exercised. I","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128842803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criminal Law Reform: A View from Across the Border","authors":"P. Ferguson","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-010b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-010b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122965337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Done to Death? Reform of Homicide Law","authors":"K. Sally","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.CH-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.CH-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123949571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on Chapter 4: Reform of the Law of Murder?","authors":"S. Mckay","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-004a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-004a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126860343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on Chapter 5: Assisted Dying and the CPS","authors":"R. Duff","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-005a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-005a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133704932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safe and Effective Courtroom Participation for Domestic Violence Complainant-Witnesses","authors":"Charlotte Bishop","doi":"10.5040/9781509916801.ch-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801.ch-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324483,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Law Reform Now","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125672443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}