Recent publications
Book
Child, J & Ormerod, D 2019, Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law. 3 edn, Oxford University Press.
Child, J & Duff, A (eds) 2018, Criminal Law Reform Now: Proposals and Critique. 1 edn, Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509916801
Child, J & Ormerod, D 2017, Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod's essentials of criminal law (second edition). 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Article
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
Sullivan, GR, Crombag, H & Child, J 2020, 'Loss of control in the appeal courts', The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.
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
Child, J & Rogers, J 2017, 'Criminal law reform now: a new Reform network', Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 282-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018317705771
Jahangir, Q, Child, J & Crombag, HS 2017, 'Prior fault and contrived criminal defences: coming to the law with clean hands', Institute of Law Journal, vol. 1, pp. 28-42.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Child, J & Sullivan, R 2018, The Current State of Murder in English Law, Wrong Turns and All. in A Reed & M Bohlander (eds), Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion. Substantive Issues in Criminal Law, Routledge.
Byrne, G & Child, J 2017, Attacks on the mind and the legal limits of the seduction industry. in A Reed & M Bohlander (eds), Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives. Substantive Issues in Criminal Law, Routledge, Oxford and New York, pp. 52-67.
Book/Film/Article review
Child, J 2017, 'Fifty Years of the Law Commission: the Dynamics of Law Reform, by M Dyson, J Lee and S Stark (eds). Oxford: Hart, 2016, 448 pp. ISBN: 9781849468572.', Legal Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 569-574. https://doi.org/10.1111/lest.12170
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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