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Personal Statement
I joined the Law School as a lecturer in 1999, from the University of Paisley, where I had been teaching since 1997, having studied at Glasgow University (LLB, 1st class hons 1988; PhD 2004) and McGill University, Montreal, Canada (LLM 1994). I worked for Dundas & Wilson CS, from 1989 until 1993, first as a trainee then as a qualified solicitor. I have been a Reader since 2013. I teach primarily in the area of Criminal Law and this, together with childhood and crime, also constitutes my main research interest.
I am currently the Deputy Head of the Law School, a member of the AHRC’s Peer Review College, the Chair of the Law Society of Scotland’s Board of Examiners and a member of the Executive Governance Group of the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice. From September 2013 until August 2015 I was the Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research) and the Head of the Graduate School for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I was also a member of the children’s panel for the City of Glasgow from 1996 until 2006.
I have recently completed a Scottish Government–funded project on the Role of the Safeguarder in the Children’s Hearings System and I am currently working on a Carnegie Trust-funded project on Decision-Making in relation to Jointly Reported Children.
Research Interests
My research interests are focussed in the areas of children who offend and in criminal law. I have worked extensively on the age of criminal responsibility and on aspects of the Scottish children’s hearings system. I have a particular interest in the criminal capacity of the child and in the difficulty for law in dealing with child-criminals – individuals who are, simultaneously, vulnerable and in need of protection as children and, also, offenders. The relationship between concepts of childhood and criminal law is also important in this context. I have a monograph in these areas: Childhood and Crime (Dundee University Press: 2007) and I have recently published a piece in a special edition of Youth Justice on the age of criminal responsibility.
In criminal law, I have a general interest in all areas of Scots Criminal Law with a focus on homicide. I have published on the partial defence of provocation and the mens rea of murder I am currently working on a second edition of Scots Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis (1st ed: Dundee University Press, 2009) with Professor Pamela Ferguson of the University of Dundee.
Teaching Interests
My main teaching interest is in Criminal Law which I have taught at all levels (pass degree; honours and masters). I have also recently created and developed an LLM/MSc module in Childhood and Crime. I have extensive experience of dissertation supervision at honours, masters and PhD level. In 2009, Claire received a teaching excellence certificate from the Strathclyde Students’ Union.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Glasgow
Master of Laws, McGill University
Bachelor of Laws, University of Glasgow
Keywords
- criminal law
- childhood
- age of criminal responsibility
- homicide
- children's hearings system
- criminal capacity
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Projects 2014 2018
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AHRC - Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland | Gavin, Mhairi
Piacentini, L., McDiarmid, C. & Gavin, M.
AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council)
1/10/14 → 22/11/18
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated › Research Studentship (Internally Allocated)
Research Output 1996 2019
Children as perpetrators of crime
McDiarmid, C., 15 Jan 2019, Oxford Bibliographies in Chilldhood Studies. Montgomery, H. (ed.). New Yorik: Oxford University Press, (Oxford Bibliographies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Killings short of murder: culpable homicide in Scots law
McDiarmid, C., 7 Sep 2018, Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion. Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Engleby, E. & Adams, V. (eds.). London, p. 21-36 16 p. (Substantive Issues in Criminal Law).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Thesis
How consent is constructed in case reports of rape : an analysis of judicial discourse
Author: Forbes, J. S., 1 May 2017Supervisor: McDiarmid, C. (Supervisor) & (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
The assessment of juvenile offenders : learning lessons for Saudi Arabia from a contextual comparison with Scotland
Author: Alateeq, S. M. S., 1 Oct 2012Supervisor: McDiarmid, C. (Supervisor) & Nellis, M. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Activities 2011 2014
contemporary childhoods conference: Scotland's Children: Possible Futures?
Claire McDiarmid (Speaker)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Gerald Gordon Seminar on Crimina
Claire McDiarmid (Invited speaker)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference