Kim Stevenson

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Law, Plymouth Law School (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
Telephone: +441752585834
Email: kim.stevenson@plymouth.ac.uk

Qualifications & background

PhD (Nottingham Trent); LLB(Hons)

Kim joined the University of Plymouth in 2004 and formerly taught at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, for 15 years where she lectured Constitutional and Administrative Law and Sexuality and the Law; she has also taught courses as part of business studies, surveying, social sciences and criminology degrees. She was also a visiting professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, St Paul, Minnesota, USA and the Open University Hong Kong.

Teaching interests

English Legal System

Legal Skills

Criminal Law

Sex Power and Legal Control

Law in Context

Research interests

Joint Director of SOLON: Interdisciplinary Studies in Bad Behaviour and Socially Visible Crime

This is an inter-institutional and collaboartive research project drawing together both experienced and young scholars to examine issues realting to law, crime and bad behaviour from legal, historical and social science perspectives. The University is one of four Universities leading the project, the others are Nottingham Trent, Oxford Brookes and Manchester Metropolitan

Research interests include historical aspects of the criminal law, sexual offences, sexuality and violence. She has just jointly edited, with Judith Rowbotham, a collection of themed essays entitled Criminal Conservations: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic and Moral Outrage (Ohio State University press 2005) which is a followup from Behaving Badly: Visible Crime, Social Panics and Legal Responses - Victorian and Modern Parallels, (Ashgate, 2002)

Publications

Books:

Criminal Conversations: Victorians Behaving Badly (joint editor with Judith Rowbotham) Ohio State University Press 2005

Blackstone’s Guide to the Sexual Offences Act 2003(with Anne Davies and Michael Gunn)Oxford University Press, 2004

Behaving Badly: Social Panics and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels, (joint editor with Judith Rowbotham) Ashgate, April 2003

Chapters in edited collections:

“Women and Young Girls Dare not Travel Alone:” The Dangers of Sexual Encounters on Victorian Railways in Letherby and Reynolds (eds) Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions , (Ashgate 2009)

‘Taking Indecent Liberties: The Victorian Encryption of Sexual Violence’ in Rowbotham and Stevenson eds., Criminal Conversations: Victorians Behaving Badly

'‘Causing a Sensation: Media and Legal Representations of Bad Behaviour’ in Rowbotham and Stevenson eds., Behaving Badly: Social Panics and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

‘Ingenuities of the Female Mind: Legal and Public Perceptions of Sexual Violence in Victorian England 1850-1890’ in Shani D’Cruz (ed.) Unguarded Passions: Gender, Class and Everyday Violence in Britain c.1850-c1950, (Harlow: Longmans, 2000) 89-103

‘The Respectability Imperative: A Golden Rule in Cases of Sexual Assault?’ in I. Inkster (ed), Golden Age? Britain 1850-1870, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2000) 237-248

Refereed Articles:
‘Truth, Law and Hate in the Virtual Marketplace of Ideas: Perspectives on the Regulation of Internet Content’ with C Harris and J Rowbotham, Journal of Communications Technology and Information Law ( 2009) vol. 18 no.2, pp.155-184

“She got past knowing herself and didn’t know how many there were”: Uncovering the Gendered Brutality of Gang Rapes in Victorian England, Nottingham Law Journal ( 2009) vol. 18 no.1 pp.1-17

'Inaccessible and Unknowable: Accretion and Uncertainty in Modern Criminal Law,’ with C Harris Liverpool Law Review (2008)

'Unearthing the Realities of Rape: utilising Victroian Newspaper Reports to fill in the Contextual gaps' [2007] Liverpool Law Review 28/3 405-423

‘For Today in this Arena’: Legal Performativity and Dramatic Convention in the Victorian Criminal justice system’ Journal of Crime and Popular Culture [2007] 14/2 113-141 with Rowbotham J

'A Question of (Dis)engagement? Historical Lessons in Promoting an Effective Public Interface to Address Current Crime Concerns,' Journal of Crime Prevention and Community Safety, (2006) 8/2 pp70-89 with Rowbotham J

‘Fulfilling Their Mission: The Intervention of Voluntary Societies in Cases of Sexual Assault in the Victorian Criminal Process,’ Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/Crime, History & Societies, (2004) 8/1 93-110

‘Children of Misfortune: The Parallel Cases of Child Murderers Thompson and Venables, Barratt and Bradley,’ (with Judith Rowbotham and Samantha Pegg) Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (2003) 42/2 107-22

‘Unequivocal Victims: The Historical Mystification of the Female Complainant in Rape Cases,’ Feminist Legal Studies 8 (2000) 346-66

‘Societal Dystopias and Legal Utopias?: Reflections on Visions Past and the Enduring Ideal of Criminal Codification,’ Nottingham Law Journal 9/1 (2000) 25-38

‘Observations on the Law Relating to Sexual Offences: the 'Historic Scandal of Women's Silence,’ (1999) 4 Web JCLI