John Child

Prof, Professor of Criminal Law

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

John is interested in doctoral candidates in criminal law doctrine and theory, comparative criminal law, and/or criminal law and neuroscience.

John's previous successful doctoral students include:
* Rachel Gimson, ‘Captured red handed: the impact of social media on the evolving concepts of the criminal defendant and the presumption of innocence’ - Completed in 2016;
* Stavros Demetriou, 'Anti-Social Behaviour and Civil Preventive Measures: Creating Localised Criminal Codes?' - Completed in 2017;
* Nicholas Sinclair-House, ‘Sentencing Intoxicated Defendants’ - Completed in 2018.

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University of Sussex

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Imperial College London

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University of Cambridge

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University College London

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Oxford Brookes University

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Maastricht University

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King’s College London

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Northumbria University

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