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Journals
Articles
Stevenson KA 2017 '‘CHILDREN OF A VERY TENDER AGE HAVE VICIOUS PROPENSITIES’: CHILD WITNESS TESTIMONIES IN CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSE' Law, Crime and History Open access
STEVENSON KIM 2017 'Writing the History of Crime. By Paul Knepper. Bloomsbury. 2016. 241pp. £19.99' History 102, (349) 114-116 ,
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Stevenson KA 2016 '“Not just the ideas of a few enthusiasts”: Early Twentieth Century Legal Activism and Reformation of the Age of Sexual Consent' Cultural and Social History 14, (2) 219-236 ,
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Stevenson KA 2016 ''These are cases which it is inadvisable to drag into the light of day:’
Disinterring the Crime of Incest in Early Twentieth Century England' Crime, History and Societies 20, (2) ,
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Stevenson KA 2016 'The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The 'Trials' of Same Sex Desire' ,
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Stevenson KA, Rowbotham J & Lowther J 2015 'Reparation for Betrayal of Trust in Child Sexual Abuse Cases. The Christian Duty of Care, Vicarious Liability and the Church of England' Australian Feminist Law Journal ,
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Stevenson KA 2014 'OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATIONS: ENABLING STUDENTS TO INTERPRET
NINETEENTH CENTURY NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE' Law, Crime and History 1, (4) 36-61 Publisher Site Open access
Stevenson K 2012 ''It is What "Girls of Indifferent Character" Do ...' Complications concerning the Legal Age of Sexual Consent in the Light of R v C (2011)' American Journal of Criminal Law (76) 130-139
Stevenson K & Harris C 2010 ''Breaking the Thrall of Ambiguity: Simplification (of the Criminal Law) as an Emerging Human Rights Imperative'' Journal of Criminal Law 74, (6) 516-532
Stevenson K 2009 '“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 1, (18) 1-17
Stevenson K, Harris C & Rowbotham J 2009 'Truth, law and hate in the virtual marketplace of ideas: perspectives on the regulation of Internet content’' Information & Communications Technology Law 2, (18) 155-184 Publisher Site
Stevenson K & Harris C 2008 'Inaccessible and Unknowable: Accretion and Uncertainty in Modern Criminal Law' Liverpool Law Review 247-267
Rowbotham J & Stevenson K 2007 ''For today in this arena...' Legal performativity and dramatic convention in the Victorian criminal justice system' Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 14, (2) 113-141
Stevenson K 2007 'Unearthing the realities of rape: Utilising Victorian newspaper reportage to fill in the contextual gaps' Liverpool Law Review 28, (3) 405-423 ,
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Rowbotham J & Stevenson K 2007 'Editorial: Answering Baker: Utilising ‘Best’ Evidence. The Challenge for Socio-legal Studies' Liverpool Law Review 28, (3) 319-326 ,
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Rowbotham J & Stevenson K 2006 'A Question of (dis)engagement? Historical Lessons in Promoting an Effective Public Interface to Address Current Crime Concerns' Crime Prevention and Community Safety 8, (2) 69-89 ,
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Jerrard RR, Stevenson K, Jerrard R, Harrington A & Jerrard R 2005 'Review: Sex Crime: Sex Offending and Society, Stone's Justices' Manual, Blackstone's Police Q&A and Blackstone's Police Sergeant's Mock Examination Paper 2005, the Criminal Jury Old & New: Jury Power from Early Times to the Present Day' The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 78, (2) 175-185 ,
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Stevenson K 2004 'Fulfilling Their Mission: The Intervention of Voluntary Societies in Cases of Sexual Assault in the Victorian Criminal Process' Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 1, (8) 93-110
Stevenson K 2004 'Of Constitutions and Kings' Liverpool Law Review 25, (2) 167-170 ,
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Stevenson K, rowbotham J & Pegg S 2003 'Children of Misfortune: The Parallel Cases of Child Murderers Thompson and Venables, Barratt and Bradley' Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 2, (42) 107-122
Stevenson K 2000 'Dystopias and Legal Utopias?: Reflections on Visions Past and the Enduring Ideal of Criminal Codification,' Nottingham Law Journal 1, (9) 25-38
Stevenson K 2000 'Unequivocal Victims: The Historical Mystification of the Female Complainant in Rape Cases,’' Feminist Legal Studies (8) 346-366
Stevenson K 1999 '‘Observations on the Law Relating to Sexual Offences: the 'Historic Scandal of Women's Silence,’' Web Journal of Current Legal Issues http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/1999/issue4/stevenson4.html (4)
Reviews
Stevenson KA 2012 'The Beauty Bias The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law by Deborah L. Rhode (Book Review)' European Journal of Women’s Studies 4, (19) 4-7
Editorial comments
Chapters
Stevenson KA & Channing I 2018 'Authoritative Judgments in a Provincial Town: Responses to Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1860 – 1900' in Gregory J; Grey D A Time of Judgement Routledge
Stevenson KA 2017 'CHIEF CONSTABLES AS ‘MORAL HEROES’ AND GUARDIANS OF PUBLIC MORALITY' in Stevenson KA; Cox DJ; Channing I Leading the Police: : A History of Chief Constables 1835-2017 routledge 91-108 Publisher Site Open access
Stevenson K 2017 'Sexual assault' A Companion to The History of Crime and Criminal Justice 232-237
Stevenson K 2017 'Sexual assault' A Companion to The History of Crime and Criminal Justice
Channing I 2017 'Chief Constables and public order' in Stevenson K; Cox D; Channing I Leading The Police: A History of Chief Constables Routledge 174-190
Rowbotham J & Stevenson K 2017 'Introduction: Behaving badly' Behaving Badly Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modem Parallels 1-13 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'A ‘Golden Era’? 1860–1885' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 39-59 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'Challenging the ‘Golden Goose’? 1885–1900' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 60-83 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'Enhancing Sensationalism: 1939–1960' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 143-170 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'New Journalism Triumphant: 1900–1914' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 84-113 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'New Perspectives and New Informants: 1914–1939' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 114-142 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'Online and Offline: Postscript 2011–2012' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 202-223 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'Positively Criminal? Press, Police and Politicians: 1960–2010' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 171-201 ,
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Rowbotham J, Stevenson K & Pegg S 2013 'The Beginnings of Crime Intelligence: 1800–1860' Crime News in Modern Britain Palgrave Macmillan UK 14-38 ,
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Stevenson K 2012 '‘Women and young girls dare not travel alone’: The dangers of sexual encounters on victorian railways' Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions 189-200
Jones J, Grear A, Fenton RA & Stevenson K 2011 'Gender, sexualities and law: Critical engagements' Gender, Sexualities and Law 1-11 ,
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Stevenson K 2010 '‘‘Most Intimate Violations’: Contextualising the Crime of Rape,' in Kilday A-M; Nash D Histories of Crime Britain 1600-2000 Palgrave MacMillan 80-99
Stevenson K 2010 '‘She Never Screamed Out and Complained’: Recognising Gender in Legal and Media Representations of Rape,’' in Jones J Gender, Sexualities and Law Taylor & Francis 121-134
Stevenson K 2005 '‘Crimes of Moral Outrage: Victorian Encryptions of Sexual Violence’' in Rowbotham J; Stevenson K Criminal conversations Victorian Crimes, Social Panics and Moral Outrage Ohio State Univ Pr 232-246
Stevenson K 2003 '‘Causing a Sensation: Media and Legal Representations of Bad Behaviour’' in Rowbotham J; Stevenson K Behaving badly: Visible Crime, Social Panics and Legal Responses - Victorian and Modern Parallels Ashgate Pub Ltd 31-46
Stevenson K 2000 '‘Ingenuities of the Female Mind: Legal and Public Perceptions of Sexual Violence in Victorian England 1850-1890’' in D'Cruze S Everyday violence in Britain, 1850-1950 Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd 89-103
Stevenson K 2000 '‘The Respectability Imperative: A Golden Rule in Cases of Sexual Assault?' in Inkster I; Workshop NTH; University NT The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870 Ashgate Pub Ltd 237-248
Conference Papers
Stevenson KA 2018 'The Credibility Gap: The Objectification of Child Victims of Sexual Abuse 1880-1980' ‘From Trauma to Protection: the twentieth century as the children’s century’ University of Warwick 4-/-0/20184-/-0/2018Open access
Stevenson KA & rowbotham J 2017 'Creating the Virtuous Panopticon: Moral dimensions of Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1880-1910' Digital Panopticon Liverpool University St Georges hall 9-/-0/20171-/-1/2017Open access
Stevenson KA 2017 'The Significance of Union Street in the Unification of Plymouth’s Three Towns' PUNCS Union and Disunion Plymouth University 6-/-0/20171-/-1/2017Open access
Stevenson KA 2017 'The Legal Vilification of the Vulnerable Child Witness: Some Historical Perspectives' Responding to Historical Child Sexual Abuse. Kent University 3-/-0/20171-/-1/2017Open access
Stevenson KA 2015 '‘My experience has shown me that children of a very tender age have vicious propensities’: Child testimony in Nineteenth Century cases of sexual abuse' Historicizing Rape Cardiff University 7-/-0/20157-/-0/2015
Stevenson KA 2015 '‘The Youngest Chief Constable ever’' British Criminology Society Plymouth University 7-/-0/20157-/-0/2015
Stevenson KA 2014 '‘…these are cases which it is inadvisable to drag into the light of day:’ Revisiting the Historiography of Incest 1885 to 1977' TRANSNATIONAL RESPONSES TO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Cardiff University 4-/-0/2014
Stevenson KA & Edward-Jones A 2013 'Plymouth Student e-journals: comparing different approaches to publishing undergraduate research and scholarly work' British Undergraduate Research Conference 2013 Plymouth University 4-/-0/20134-/-0/2013
Stevenson KA 2012 'Open Journal Publishing: Letting Elpis out of Pandora's Box' North American Conference on British Studies Montreal 1-/-1/20121-/-1/2012History Working Papers Publisher Site
Stevenson K 2012 '‘There is a strong consensus of public opinion …’:
Edwardian Activism and the utilization of Criminal Law to prohibit Immorality and
Indecency' SOLON Modern Activism Conference Liverpool John Moores 6-/-0/20126-/-0/2012
Stevenson K 2011 ''"I Beg to Apologise for Troubling You on This Disagreeable Subject": the Criminal Law Amendment Acts and the Elusivity of Establishing the Age of Consent'' British Legal History Conference Clare College Cambridge Uhiversity 7-/-0/20117-/-0/2011
Stevenson K 2010 '‘Real' Rape, ‘Real’ Consent' National Conference Sex and the Law, Criminalisation? Protection? Rights Centre for HIV and sexual health Sheffield 9-/-0/2010
Stevenson K 2010 '‘Should there be a Human Right to know the criminal Law?’' Society of Legal Scholars Southampton University 9-/-0/20109-/-0/2010
Stevenson KA 2008 '“She got past knowing herself and didn’t know how many there were”: Uncovering the Gendered Brutality of Gang Rapes in Victorian England' European Social Science History Conference Lisbon Lisbon 2-/-0/20083-/-0/2008
Stevenson K 2008 '‘The Legal Cassandra: Rethinking Fitzjames Stephen’s Influence on the Criminal Law’' Society Legal Scholars Annual Conference LSE London 9-/-0/20089-/-0/2008
Stevenson K 2007 '‘Inaccessible and Unknowable: The problem of legislative hyperactivity and frenzied law making in the Criminal Law’' SOLON Experiencing the Law Conference Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 2-/-1/2007
Stevenson K 2007 '‘“A Waste of Time?” Overcoming Student and Staff Resistance to Academic Development Planning in Curriculum Design and Delivery’' Association of Law Teachers Annual conference University of Plymouth 4-/-0/20074-/-0/2007
Stevenson K 2005 'Female Monsters or Damsels in Distress?’' Behaving Badly Again SOLON 4th Annual Conference Galleries of justice Nottingham 9-/-0/20059-/-0/2005
Stevenson K 2005 '‘Reporting Legal Ingenuities: Representations of Sexual Offences in the Press’' Hart Workshop Empirical Research in Law and Legal Process Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London 6-/-0/20056-/-0/2005
Stevenson K 2004 '“The Sexual Offences Act 2003”' Sexual Offences Act Conference Manchester Metropolitan University 0-/-1/2004
Stevenson K 2004 '‘Evil Counsels; Perspectives on recent legislative initiatives’,' Evil State and the law International Conference Oxford University 7-/-0/20047-/-0/2004
Stevenson K 2003 '‘“She got past knowing herself and didn’t know how many there were”: Uncovering the Gendered Brutality of Gang Rapes in Victorian England.’' IAHCCJ International Colloquium ‘Gender and Crime in Historical Perspective Paris 6-/-0/20036-/-0/2003
Stevenson K 2003 'Victorian Gang Rapes' Sociolegal Studies Association Annual Conference Nottingham Trent University 4-/-0/20034-/-0/2003
Stevenson K 2003 '‘Ganging Up, Should Stranger Rape be Constituted as a Hate Crime?’' SOLON/NCSRHC Hate Crimes Conference Galleries of Justice Nottingham 2-/-0/20032-/-0/2003
Stevenson K 2002 '‘Revealing the Sexual Truth, Sourcing records of sex crimes’' Crime Research Network One Day Seminar Series Nottingham Trent University 1-/-1/2002
Stevenson K 2002 '‘Indecent Propositions - The Mystification of the Female Complainant in Rape Cases’' Gender Sexuality and the Law International Second Conference Keele University 6-/-0/20026-/-0/2002
Stevenson K 2002 '‘Damsels in Distress or Female Monsters - Sexual Violence and Seduction in Railway Carriages’' SOLON Off the Rails One Day conference York Railway Museum 5-/-0/2002
Stevenson K 2001 '‘Courting Connexions: Legal Protagonists and the Press in the Victorian Period’' Law, Cultures and the Humanities, International Conference, Fourth Meeting University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA 1-/-1/20011-/-1/2001
Stevenson K 2001 '‘Helping the Vulnerable or Helping Themselves? The role of Voluntary Societies in Nineteenth Century Prosecutions of Sex Crimes’' Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Palmer House, Chicago, USA 1-/-1/20011-/-1/2001
Stevenson K 2001 '’Media Manipulations: Lawyers Reporting and Bad Behaviour?’’' Behaving Badly First SOLON International Conference Galleries of Justice Nottingham 9-/-0/20019-/-0/2001
Stevenson K 2001 '‘“Taking Indecent Liberties;” The Victorian Encryption of Sexual Violence’' International Conference on the History of Violence University of Liverpool 7-/-0/20017-/-0/2001
Stevenson K 2001 '“Taking Indecent Liberties?” Victorian Representations of Sexual Violence’' Women and Gender Keele University 6-/-0/2001
Stevenson K 2001 '‘Media Manipulations? Images of Crime, Lawyers, Judges and Police - Past and Present’' SOLON Open Public Lecture Galleries of Justice Galleries of Justice, Nottingham 3-/-0/2001
Stevenson K 2000 'The Mystification of Rape: An exercise in Cultural Contextualisation’' Law, Cultures and the Humanities - International Conference, Third Meeting Georgetown University, Washington DC 3-/-0/20003-/-0/2000
Stevenson K 2000 '‘Societal Distopias and Legal Utopias: In Pursuit of a Code Victoria’' Social History Society Millennium Conference Gonville and Caius Cambridge University 1-/-0/20001-/-0/2000
Stevenson K 1999 '’The Respectability Imperative: A Golden Rule in Cases of Sexual Assault?’' One Day History Conference, The Golden Age, Nottingham Trent University 6-/-0/1999
Stevenson K 1999 '‘Ingenuities of the Female Mind: Legal and Public Perceptions of Sexual Violence in Victorian England 1850-90’' Women Gender and Interpersonal Violence: Historical Perspectives Leeds Metropolitan University 2-/-0/1999
Stevenson K 1998 '‘Loose Ends and Legal Disjunctions: Offences Against the Person? Socio-Legal Dynamics and Sexual violence in the mid nineteenth century’' Critical Legal Studies Conference Lancaster University 9-/-0/19989-/-0/1998