Professor Claire McDiarmid
Strathclyde Law School
Publications
- Between accidental killing and murder : culpable homicide
- McDiarmid Claire
- Juridical Review Vol 2023, pp. 19-47 (2023)
- Children as perpetrators of crime
- McDiarmid Claire
- Oxford Bibliographies in Chilldhood Studies (2019) (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0212
- Killings short of murder : culpable homicide in Scots law
- McDiarmid Claire
- Homicide in Criminal Law A Research Companion (2018) (2018)
- Scottish Criminal Law Essentials
- McDiarmid Claire
- Edinburgh Law Essentials Edinburgh Law Essentials (2018)
- Cadder and beyond : suspects' rights and the public interest
- McDiarmid Claire
- Scottish Criminal Evidence Law Current Developments and Future Trends (2017) (2017)
- Role of the Safeguarder in the Children's Hearings System
- McDiarmid C, Barry M, Donnelly M, Corson S
- (2017)
Teaching
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.
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.
Professional Activities
- contemporary childhoods conference: Scotland's Children: Possible Futures?
- Speaker
- 5/9/2014
- Central Law Training: The Criminal Law Conference
- Participant
- 16/6/2014
- Gerald Gordon Seminar on Crimina
- Invited speaker
- 12/6/2014
- Examiner in Scots Criminal Law
- External Examiner
- 1/1/2013
- Contingency in Practice: Applying a Threshold Concept in Law
- Speaker
- 2012
- External Examiner in Criminal Law
- External Examiner
- 1/10/2011
Projects
- The Public Interest and the Child’s Best Interests: Jointly-Reported Children in Scotland
- McDiarmid, Claire (Principal Investigator) Donnelly, Michelle (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2018
- The role of Safeguarder in the Children's Hearings System
- McDiarmid, Claire (Principal Investigator) Barry, Monica (Co-investigator) Corson, Stephen (Co-investigator) Donnelly, Michelle (Researcher)
- 07-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017
- AHRC - Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland | Gavin, Mhairi
- Piacentini, Laura (Principal Investigator) McDiarmid, Claire (Co-investigator) Gavin, Mhairi (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 22-Jan-2018
Contact
Professor
Claire
McDiarmid
Strathclyde Law School
Email: claire.mcdiarmid@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3335