Criminal Law Reform Now, Volume 2: Proposals and Critique

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Criminal Law Reform Now, Volume 2: Proposals and Critique

Edited by Melissa Bone · J.J. Child · Jonathan Rogers
Hart Publishing October 2025

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9781509959228
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
October 2025
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Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? In the 2nd volume of this successful series, the same question is put to a new selection of leading academics and practitioners.

The first 9 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 corporate liability, consent to bodily harms, prostitution, domestic abuse, drugs, economic crimes, defendant anonymity, appeal court structures, and the procedures of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Each chapter is followed by a comment from a different author, providing an additional expert view on each proposal. Finally, the last chapter broadens the debate to discuss criminal law reform in general, exploring the systemic dynamics of centralisation, austerity, and politicisation. The collection highlights and explores the current reform debates that matter most to legal experts, with each chapter making a positive case for change.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Melissa Bone (University of Leicester, UK), J J Child (University of Birmingham, UK) and Jonathan Rogers (University of Cambridge, UK)
1. Two Proposed Reforms to The Present System of Criminal Appeals
(P) Paul Jarvis (Barrister and CLRNN Committee Member, UK)
(R) Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham, UK)
2. Decriminalisation of Prostitution
(P) Tanya Palmer (University of Sussex, UK)
(R) Ronald Weitzer (George Washington University, USA)
3. Senior Corporate Managers' Criminal Liability for the Crimes of Employees or Agents
(P) Jeremy Horder (London School of Economics, UK) and Gabriele Watts (Lincoln's Inn, UK)
(R) Alison Cronin (Bournemouth University, UK)
4. A One-Sided Coin? Attributing Agency and Responsibility in Contexts of Coercive Control
(P) Vanessa Bettinson (De Montfort University, UK), Vanessa Munro (University of Warwick, UK) and Nicola Wake (University of Northumbria, UK)
(R) Paramjit Ahluwalia (Lamb Building, UK)
5. Post Appeal Decision-Making: Reforming the Powers of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
(P) Lucy Welsh (University of Sussex, UK)
(R) John Curtis (The Criminal Cases Review Commission, UK) and Miles Trent (The Criminal Cases Review Commission, UK)
6. Consent to Bodily Harm and the 'Public Interest'
(P) Daniel Bansal (University of Leicester, UK) and Tracy Elliott (University of Leicester, UK)
(R) Michelle Madden Dempsey (Villanova University, USA)
7. Is It Time for the Next Seminal Economic Crime Statute? Modernising and Simplifying Tax Evasion Offences in the UK
(P) Samantha Bourton (University of the West of England, UK)
(R) Jonathan Fisher KC (Lion Chambers, UK)
8. Anonymity, Criminal Suspicion, and Mud that Sticks
(P) Joe Purshouse (University of Sheffield, UK)
(R) Monica Stevenson (25 Bedford Row, UK) and Matt Dyson (University of Oxford, UK)
9. In Defence of the Decriminalisation of Drug Possession
(P) Alex Stevens (University of Kent, UK), Niamh Eastwood (Release, UK) and Kirstie Douse (Release, UK)
(R) Douglas Husak (Rutgers University, USA)
10. Dynamics and Drivers for Change in the Criminal Justice System
Stephen Wooler (Barrister, UK)
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