Professor Nicola Wake

• Professor Wake's research interests include: criminal law and justice specifically domestic abuse victims who offend in response, human trafficking, and the secure estate.

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• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• A new self-defence framework for domestic abuse survivors who use violent resistance in response, Bettinson, V., Wake, N. 1 Jan 2024, In: Modern Law Review
• A One-sided Coin? Attributing Agency and Responsibility in Contexts of Coercive Control, Bettinson, V., Munro, V., Wake, N., Ahluwalia, P. 2 May 2024, Criminal Law Reform Now, London, Bloomsbury
• Preparing a Public Perception Study inn the use of Violent Resistance as Self-Defence in Domestic Abuse Cases, Bettinson, V., Crofts, T., Wake, N. 17 Sep 2024, Research Handbook on Domestic Violence, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
• Reconceptualising Sexual Infidelity Provocation: New Anglo-Scottish Reform Proposals, Wake, N., Reed, A. Feb 2024, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
• Re-designing Secure Children’s Homes Through a Child First Lens, Andow, C., Kleipoedszus,, S., Dunn, R., Wake, N., Arthur, R., Shafi, A., Gibson, D. 25 Oct 2024, In: Societies
• Diminished Responsibility Determinations in England and Wales and New South Wales: Whose Role is it Anyway?, Crofts, T., Wake, N. 16 Sep 2021, In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
• Legislative approaches to recognising the vulnerability of young people and preventing their criminalisation, Wake, N., Arthur, R., Crofts, T., Lambert, S. Jan 2021, In: Public law
• Empowering young people: multi-disciplinary expressive interventions utilising Diamond9 evaluative methods to encourage agency in youth justice, Arthur, R., Dunn, R., Wake, N. 30 Jun 2020, In: International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law
• Manslaughter by loss of control: sentencing primary victims who kill, Wake, N. 5 Mar 2019, In: Criminal Law Review
• Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Wake, N., Engleby, E., Adams, V. 3 Sep 2018

• Kathryn Nisbet A New Partial Defence Framework for Victims of Domestic Abuse Who Kill Their Abusers Start Date: 01/10/2024
• Carole Burrell Does patient care improve when mental health professionals practice at the 'top of their licence'? (draft title) Start Date: 29/06/2022

Read my recent publications: 

Andow C., Kleipoedszus, S, Dunn, R., Wake, N., Arthur, R., Shafi, A., and Gibson, D., “Re-Designing Secure Children’s Homes Through a Child First Lens” (2024) accepted/in press Societies, 14 (10), 1-35.

Wake, N., and Reed, A. 'Reconceptualising Sexual Infidelity Provocation: New Anglo-Scottish Reform Proposals' (open access, 2024) Journal of Criminal Law (10.1177/00220183241229945)

Bettinson, V., Crofts, T., and Wake, N., "Preparing a Public Perception Study in the use of Violent Resistance as Self-Defence in Domestic Abuse Cases" in Bettinson, V., Burton, M., Richardson, K., and Speed, A., (eds) Research Handbook on Domestic Violence (Edward Elgar, 2024).

Bettinson, V., Munro, V., and Wake., N., "A One Sided-Coin?  Attributing Agency and Responsibility in Contexts of Coercive Control" in Criminal Law Reform Now Volume 2: Proposals and Critique (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024) <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/criminal-law-reform-now-volume-2-9781509959181/> 

My other publications can be viewed here.

• Law PhD July 12 2016
• Teaching & Learning PGCHE September 01 2008
• Law LLB September 01 2005
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2012