Gavin Dingwall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5122682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Dingwall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Dingwall |
| SIGNATURE | DINGWALL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth
Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats
Blamestorming, blamemongers and scapegoats
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, this is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalis…
Alcohol and Crime
Alcohol is massively associated with crime. Evidence from the British Medical Association found that alcohol use is associated with 60-70 per cent of murders, 70 per cent of stabbings, 50 per cent of fights or assaults in the home. For non-violent offences the association is very strong as well: 88 per cent of those arrested for criminal damage, 83 per cent for breach of the peace, 41 per cent for theft and 26 per cent for burglary, had drunk in …
It lets out all my demons’
Challenging the Ongoing Injustice of Imprisonment for Public Protection
The Government has recently abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection, a highly controversial form of indeterminate sentence. Yet, at the time of writing, nearly 6,000 inmates are still serving such sentences, all of whom will have to convince a Parole Board that detention is no longer necessary for the protection of the public. This paper evaluates recent European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence which considered the legality of post‐tarif…
Applying generic sentencing aims in domestic violence cases in England and Wales
Ethics First
The beginnings of a research project are not necessarily clear cut. This generates some interesting ethical issues for researchers during the period between the initial idea for research and its subsequent development in to a formal research proposal that can be submitted for approval to an ethics committee. This paper illustrates the point through a reflexive account of preliminary work towards a research project on taxi drivers and their experi…
Deserting Desert? Locating the Present Role of Retributivism in the Sentencing of Adult Offenders
Academic literature has generally claimed that the importance of desert has been reduced dramatically over the past decade and now plays a minimal role in the sentencing of adult offenders. Whilst an initial reading of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 would support such a view, it will be shown that the Act preserves some very important retributive concepts. In addition, guidance from the Sentencing Guidelines Council, established by the 2003 Act, h…
Determining the impact of intoxication in a desert-based sentencing framework
Research has consistently found a significant correlation between alcohol consumption and offending. Although this finding does not prove any direct causal link, many offenders subsequently claim that the fact that they had been drinking should mitigate their sentence. As the argument advanced by offenders is framed in retributive terms—culpability is reduced because of intoxication—this article aims to analyse the impact, if any, that intoxicati…
Intoxicated Mistakes about the Need for Self‐Defence
Statutory Exceptions, Burdens of Proof and the Human Rights Act 1998
traditional approach in England before Morgan,88 which exemplified possibility regulation rather that probability regulation, at least when adjudicating a challenged transaction inter partes.89 Lord Scarman's 'inexplicability' test thus seems too high, but it was settled quite without reference to the fiduciary nature of the regulation involved in relational undue influence cases. Lord Browne-Wilkinson may have suspected as much by his reservatio…
Prosecutorial Policy, Double Jeopardy and the Public Interest
Selective Incapacitation After the Criminal Justice Act 1991
This article considers how the Court of Appeal has interpreted the provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 which allow for the selective incapacitation of violent or sexual offenders in order to protect the public. It is argued that the Court of Appeal has been reluctant to use these provisions and, when they have been employed, the Court has introduced notions of proportionality in calculating the length of the sentence which would appear to…
Determining the impact of intoxication in a desert-based sentencing framework
Research has consistently found a significant correlation between alcohol consumption and offending. Although this finding does not prove any direct causal link, many offenders subsequently claim that the fact that they had been drinking should mitigate their sentence. As the argument advanced by offenders is framed in retributive terms—culpability is reduced because of intoxication—this article aims to analyse the impact, if any, that intoxicati…
Selective Incapacitation After the Criminal Justice Act 1991
This article considers how the Court of Appeal has interpreted the provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 which allow for the selective incapacitation of violent or sexual offenders in order to protect the public. It is argued that the Court of Appeal has been reluctant to use these provisions and, when they have been employed, the Court has introduced notions of proportionality in calculating the length of the sentence which would appear to…
Prosecutorial Policy, Double Jeopardy and the Public Interest
Statutory Exceptions, Burdens of Proof and the Human Rights Act 1998
traditional approach in England before Morgan,88 which exemplified possibility regulation rather that probability regulation, at least when adjudicating a challenged transaction inter partes.89 Lord Scarman's 'inexplicability' test thus seems too high, but it was settled quite without reference to the fiduciary nature of the regulation involved in relational undue influence cases. Lord Browne-Wilkinson may have suspected as much by his reservatio…
Intoxicated Mistakes about the Need for Self‐Defence
Deserting Desert? Locating the Present Role of Retributivism in the Sentencing of Adult Offenders
Academic literature has generally claimed that the importance of desert has been reduced dramatically over the past decade and now plays a minimal role in the sentencing of adult offenders. Whilst an initial reading of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 would support such a view, it will be shown that the Act preserves some very important retributive concepts. In addition, guidance from the Sentencing Guidelines Council, established by the 2003 Act, h…
Determining the impact of intoxication in a desert-based sentencing framework
Research has consistently found a significant correlation between alcohol consumption and offending. Although this finding does not prove any direct causal link, many offenders subsequently claim that the fact that they had been drinking should mitigate their sentence. As the argument advanced by offenders is framed in retributive terms—culpability is reduced because of intoxication—this article aims to analyse the impact, if any, that intoxicati…
Ethics First
The beginnings of a research project are not necessarily clear cut. This generates some interesting ethical issues for researchers during the period between the initial idea for research and its subsequent development in to a formal research proposal that can be submitted for approval to an ethics committee. This paper illustrates the point through a reflexive account of preliminary work towards a research project on taxi drivers and their experi…
Applying generic sentencing aims in domestic violence cases in England and Wales
Alcohol and Crime
Alcohol is massively associated with crime. Evidence from the British Medical Association found that alcohol use is associated with 60-70 per cent of murders, 70 per cent of stabbings, 50 per cent of fights or assaults in the home. For non-violent offences the association is very strong as well: 88 per cent of those arrested for criminal damage, 83 per cent for breach of the peace, 41 per cent for theft and 26 per cent for burglary, had drunk in …
It lets out all my demons’
Challenging the Ongoing Injustice of Imprisonment for Public Protection
The Government has recently abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection, a highly controversial form of indeterminate sentence. Yet, at the time of writing, nearly 6,000 inmates are still serving such sentences, all of whom will have to convince a Parole Board that detention is no longer necessary for the protection of the public. This paper evaluates recent European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence which considered the legality of post‐tarif…
Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats
Blamestorming, blamemongers and scapegoats
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, this is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalis…
Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Economic Justice (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminal justice (5 works) · Law (4 works)