Dr Siobhan Weare

Lecturer

Research Overview

Dr Weare's research interests are focused in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice. She is currently exploring the issue of 'forced-to-penetrate' cases, including the experiences of male victims, and the legal, criminal justice, and societal responses to this form of sexual offending. Siobhan is also interested in the socio-legal responses to women who commit serious offences more broadly, including homicide and sexual violence. More generally, Dr Weare is also interested in violence and gender, domestic violence, sexual offences, and criminal legal and gender theory.

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

2018-19Siobhan is on sabbatical leave in Michaelmas term. She is convening Law 101x/y English Legal System and Methods and teaching on Law 104x Criminal Law when she returns.

Additional Information

Siobhan is Director of Communications for the Law School

Web Links

Twitter: @SiobhanWeare https://twitter.com/SiobhanWeare

Academia.edu - https://lancaster.academia.edu/SiobhanWeare

PhD Supervision Interests

Criminal law; gendered violence; homicide; sexual offences; gender and the law

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Publications
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Selected Publications Show all 24 publications

Michael Salter, 'Organised Sexual Abuse'
Weare, S. 09/2013 In: Modern Law Review. 76, 5, 6 p.
Book/Film/Article review

All Publications Show only selected publications

The English Legal System
Gillespie, A., Weare, S. 19/09/2019 7th ed. ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 715 p. ISBN: 9780198830900.
Book

Experiences of men forced-to-penetrate women in the UK: Context, consequences, and engagement with the criminal justice system: Project Report
Weare, S., Hulley, J. 25/07/2019 Lancaster : Lancaster University. 24 p.
Other report

Experiences of men forced-to-penetrate women in the UK: Context, consequences, and engagement with the criminal justice system: Executive Summary
Weare, S., Hulley, J. 25/07/2019 Lancaster : Lancaster University. 8 p.
Other report

Women as co-offenders: Pathways into Crime and Offending Motivations
Weare, S.F., Barlow, C.F. 1/03/2019 In: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 58, 1, p. 86-103. 18 p.
Journal article

"I feel permanently traumatized by it": Physical and emotional impacts reported by men forced to penetrate women in the United Kingdom
Weare, S.F. 29/12/2018 In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 26 p.
Journal article

R v Ahluwalia (1993)
Weare, S.F. 27/12/2018 In: Women’s Legal Landmarks. Oxford : Hart Publishing
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

From coercion to physical force: Aggressive strategies used by women against men in 'forced-to-penetrate' cases in the UK
Weare, S.F. 1/11/2018 In: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 47, 8, p. 2191–2205. 15 p.
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. 1/03/2018 In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 31, 1, p. 21-52. 32 p.
Journal article

‘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. 1/03/2018 In: International Journal of Law in Context. 14, 1, p. 110-131. 22 p.
Journal article

Forced-to-penetrate cases: Lived experiences of men - Baseline Research Findings
Weare, S.F. 28/07/2017 Lancaster University. 17 p.
Other report

The English legal system
Gillespie, A.A., Weare, S.F. 6/07/2017 6th ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 736 p. ISBN: 9780198785439.
Book

Bad, mad or sad?: legal language, narratives, and identity constructions of women who kill their children in England and Wales
Weare, S.F. 1/06/2017 In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 30, 2, p. 201-222. 22 p.
Journal article

The English legal system
Weare, S., Gillespie, A. 06/2015
Other chapter contribution

The need for more than an offence of coercive control to combat domestic abuse
Weare, S. 30/04/2015
Other contribution

Five new laws that may have escaped your notice in 2014
Weare, S. 31/12/2014
Other contribution

'Domestic abuse is everyone's problem': why criminalising coercive control just isn't enough
Weare, S. 17/12/2014
Other contribution

The socio-legal response(s) to women who kill: a proposed model for acknowledging their agency
Weare, S. 10/2014 312 p.
Doctoral Thesis

Marital coercion
Weare, S. 26/07/2014 In: Criminal Law and Justice Weekly. 178, 30, p. 455-456. 2 p.
Journal article

You shouldn't have to be perfect to 'qualify' as a rape victim
Weare, S. 2/07/2014
Other contribution

Female co-perpetrated child sexual abuse: agency denial and their victims
Weare, S. 1/07/2014
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
Other contribution

Now you see them now you don't?: the battle to block online child sexual abuse images
Weare, S., Ost, S. 28/11/2013
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.
Journal article

Michael Salter, 'Organised Sexual Abuse'
Weare, S. 09/2013 In: Modern Law Review. 76, 5, 6 p.
Book/Film/Article review

Experiences of men ‘forced-to-penetrate’ women in the UK
01/05/2018 → 30/09/2019
Research

Forced to penetrate cases: lived experiences of men
01/12/2016 → …
Research

RCUK-SUP: Inspiring the Next Generation of Researchers
01/01/2013 → 31/12/2016
Research

National Male Survivors Helpline: Review of data
01/01/1900 → …
Research

Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
Participation in conference

SLSA Annual Conference 2016
Participation in conference

Corpus Linguistics in the South 10
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

LSA Annual Conference 2015, Seattle
Participation in conference

Re-examining legal and criminal justice responses to rape
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

SLSA Annual Conference 2015, Warwick
Participation in conference

Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
Participation in conference

The Luminary (Journal)
Editorial activity

Modern Law Review Seminar - Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Offences, Offenders and Victims
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Modern Law Review Seminar – Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Offences, Offenders and Victims
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

PECANS Law, Gender and Sexuality Workshop 2013 - Encounters with Vulnerability
Participation in conference

Postgraduate Research in Progress: Reflecting on the Impact of Gender in Research, Liverpool University
Participation in conference

SLSA Annual Conference 2013
Participation in conference

Current Issues in Child Sexual Exploitation and the Law
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Work in Progress
Participation in workshop, seminar, course