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Keywords
Child Sexual Abuse, Crime and Society, Criminal justice, Criminal Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Female Offenders, Gender and the Law, Legal Theory, Sexual Offences
Research Areas
Criminology, Gender, Law and society, Legal theory
Siobhan Weare
Lecturer
Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YN
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Tel: +44 1524 592898
Affiliations
Law School
Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
My research interests are focused in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice. I am currently exploring the socio-legal responses to women who commit serious offences, including homocide and sexual violence. More generally, I am also interested in violence against women, domestic violence, sexual offences and criminal legal and gender theory.
Thesis Title
'A Feminist Legal Engagement with Women Who Kill'
Thesis Outline
Siobhan's research will examine some of the socio-legal constructions of women who kill. Currently women who kill fall into something of an abstract category; they are 'not men'. Research has shown that men commit the vast majority of crime, as well as committing the most serious crimes. When women commit crime, they violate some of the prominent feminine gender norms ascribed to women by socio-legal discourse of appropriate femininity, in the realms of domesticity, sexuality and motherhood. As a result, when women commit particularly heinous crimes such as murder, the institution of law not only judges them based on the evidence of the crime they have committed, but also on their deviance from appropriate feminine behaviour. Consequently, Siobhan's research will focus on the construction of the category of ?woman' within the institution of law and how this construction affects the institutional responses to the actions of these women.
Additional Information
Siobhan is Assistant Dean of Lonsdale College.
Selected Publications
Michael Salter, 'Organised Sexual Abuse'
Weare, S. 09/2013 In: Modern Law Review. 76, 5, p. 943-948 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2014
Female co-perpetrated child sexual abuse: agency denial and their victims
Weare, S. 1/07/2014
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
You shouldn't have to be perfect to 'qualify' as a rape victim
Weare, S. 2/07/2014 The Conversation
Research output: Other contribution
R v Ian Watkins and B and P – Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse: no longer a hidden crime?
Weare, S. 22/01/2014
Research output: Other contribution
2013
Now you see them now you don't?: the battle to block online child sexual abuse images
Weare, S. & Ost, S. 28/11/2013
Research output: Other contribution
"The mad", "the bad", "the victim": gendered constructions of women who kill within the criminal justice system
Weare, S. 18/09/2013 In: Laws. 2, 3, p. 337-361 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Michael Salter, 'Organised Sexual Abuse'
Weare, S. 09/2013 In: Modern Law Review. 76, 5, p. 943-948 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Current Issues in Child Sexual Exploitation and the Law
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Read more»Postgraduate Research in Progress: Reflecting on the Impact of Gender in Research, Liverpool University
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(Participant) 12/12/2012
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Read more»PECANS Law, Gender and Sexuality Workshop 2013 - Encounters with Vulnerability
(Participant) 22/11/2013
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Read more»Modern Law Review Seminar - Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Offences, Offenders and Victims
(Participant) 16/12/2013
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Read more»Modern Law Review Seminar – Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Offences, Offenders and Victims
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