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Keywords
Crime and Society, Criminal justice, Criminal Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Legal Theory, Family Law, Female Offenders, Female Offenders, Gender and Law, Gender and the Law, Legal Theory, Sexual Offences, Sexual Offences
Research Areas
Criminology, Gender, Law and society, Legal theory
Dr Siobhan Weare
Lecturer
LA1 4YN
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Tel: +44 1524 592898
Affiliations
Law School
Centre for Crime, Law and Justice
Dr Weare's research interests are focused in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice. She is currently exploring the socio-legal responses to women who commit serious offences, including homicide and sexual violence. More generally, Dr Weare is also interested in violence against women, domestic violence, sexual offences, and criminal legal and gender theory.
PhD Supervision Interests
Criminal law; gendered violence; homicide; sexual offences; gender and the law
Research Interests
Criminal law and criminal justice (sexual offences, homicide, domestic abuse), gender (masculinities, femininities, gender and crime, gender theories) and criminal legal and criminological theories
Current Teaching
2016-17
Siobhan is convening Law 101x/y English Legal System and Methods. She is also teaching on Law 350 Gender and the Law, and Law 104x Criminal Law.
Additional Information
Siobhan is Deputy Director of Admissions and Director of Communications for the Law School
Web Links
Twitter: @SiobhanWeare https://twitter.com/SiobhanWeare
Academia.edu - https://lancaster.academia.edu/SiobhanWeare
Selected Publications
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2018
‘Oh you’re a guy, how could you be raped by a woman, that makes no sense’: towards a case for legally recognising and labelling ‘forced to penetrate’ cases as rape
Weare, S. F. 03/2018 In: International Journal of Law in Context. 14, 1, p. 110-131 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Mother, Monster, Mrs, I: A critical evaluation of gendered naming strategies in English sentencing remarks of women who kill
Potts, A. & Weare, S. F. 03/2018 In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 31, 1, p. 21-52 32 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2017
Forced-to-penetrate cases: Lived experiences of men - Baseline Research Findings
Weare, S. F. 28/07/2017 Lancaster University. 17 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Other report
The English legal system
Gillespie, A. A. & Weare, S. F. 6/07/2017 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 736 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Bad, mad or sad?: legal language, narratives, and identity constructions of women who kill their children in England and Wales
Weare, S. F. 06/2017 In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 30, 2, p. 201-222 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2015
The English legal system
Weare, S. & Gillespie, A. 06/2015 The English legal system. Gillespie, A. (ed.). 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Other chapter contribution
The need for more than an offence of coercive control to combat domestic abuse
Weare, S. 30/04/2015 Sanctuary Criminal Justice Blog
Research output: Other contribution
2014
Five new laws that may have escaped your notice in 2014
Weare, S. 31/12/2014 The Conversation
Research output: Other contribution
'Domestic abuse is everyone's problem': why criminalising coercive control just isn't enough
Weare, S. 17/12/2014 Lancaster University
Research output: Other contribution
The socio-legal response(s) to women who kill: a proposed model for acknowledging their agency
Weare, S. 10/2014 312 p.
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Marital coercion
Weare, S. 26/07/2014 In: Criminal Law and Justice Weekly. 178, 30, p. 455-456 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
You shouldn't have to be perfect to 'qualify' as a rape victim
Weare, S. 2/07/2014 The Conversation
Research output: Other contribution
Female co-perpetrated child sexual abuse: agency denial and their victims
Weare, S. 1/07/2014
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
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
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Forced to penetrate cases: lived experiences of men
01/12/2016 →
This project will focus on the occurrence and lived experiences of victims of ‘forced to penetrate’ cases. These cases, where male victims are forced to penetrate, with their penis, a female perpe ... Read more»