Recent publications
Book
Child, J, Simester, Spencer, Stark & Virgo 2022, Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law. 8th Edition edn, Hart Publishing.
Child, J & Ormerod, D 2021, Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law. 4th edn, Oxford University Press.
Article
Child, J & Hunt, A 2021, 'Beyond the present-fault paradigm: expanding mens rea definitions in the general part', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqab033
Child, J 2021, 'Knowledge by any other name: Alexander Sarch on wilful ignorance', Jurisprudence, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 236-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2021.1930372
Sullivan, GR, Crombag, H & Child, J 2021, 'Loss of control in the appeal courts', The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 200-223. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v72i2.564
Goldberg, A, Child, J, Crombag, H & Roef, D 2021, 'Prior-fault blame in England and Wales, Germany and the Netherlands', Journal of International and Comparative Law (JICL), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 53-86. <https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/june-2021/prior-fault-blame-in-england-and-wales-germany-and-the-netherlands>
Child, J 2020, 'Defence of a basic voluntary act requirement in criminal law from philosophies of action', New Criminal Law Review, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 437-470. https://doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2020.23.4.437
Child, J, Crombag, H & Sullivan, R 2020, 'Defending the delusional, the irrational, and the dangerous', Criminal Law Review.
Crombag, H, Child, J & Sullivan, G 2020, 'Drunk, dangerous and delusional: how legal concept‐creep risks overcriminalization', Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15024
Sinclair-House, N, Child, J & Crombag, H 2019, 'Addiction is a brain disease, and it doesn’t matter: prior choice in drug use blocks leniency in criminal punishment', Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, pp. 1-58. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000217
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Crombag, H & Child, J 2022, Drugs, Criminaliteit en het Strafrecht. in H Otgaar, M Jelicic & H Merckelbach (eds), Inleiding in de rechtspsychologie. Paris Legal Publishers, pp. 125-148. <https://www.uitgeverijparis.nl/en/product/435/Inleiding-in-de-rechtspsychologie#inhoud>
Child, J & Hunt, A 2022, Inchoate Offences. in Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice. Elgar.
Child, J, Crombag, H & Fortson, R 2022, Understanding the ‘fault’ in prior-fault intoxication: insights from behavioural neuroscience. in A Reed & M Bohlander (eds), Fault in criminal law: A research companion. 1st edn, Substantive Issues in Criminal Law, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279181-7
Comment/debate
Crombag, H, Child, J & Sullivan, GR 2020, 'Debating Intoxication: response to commentaries', Addiction, vol. 115, no. 12, pp. 2210-2212. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15257
Commissioned report
Child, J (ed.) 2020, Reforming the Computer Misuse Act 1990: Criminal Law Reform Now Network Report. Criminal Law Reform Now Network. <http://www.clrnn.co.uk/media/1018/clrnn-cma-report.pdf>
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