John Child

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.