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Steven Cammiss
Lecturer
LLB ( London) LLM ( London) PhD (Warwick)
Email: steven.cammiss@leicester.ac.uk
Steven previously worked as a lecturer at The University of Birmingham before coming to Leicester in 2007. His main research interests are in the field of the administration of criminal justice, with an emphasis on mode of trial. He engages in empirical research that utilises a theoretical approach. He is particularly interested in sociological and linguistic approaches to courtroom behaviour with a specific focus on narrative reproduction processes in the courtroom. He is currently working on an empirical project on the operation of the Licensing Act 2003.
Research Interests
The administration of criminal justice, mode of trial, law and narrative, Licensing Law.
Selected Publications
- “I will in a Moment Give You the Full History”: Mode of Trial, Prosecutorial Control and Partial Accounts [2006] Criminal Law Review 38-51 .
- The Management of Domestic Violence Cases in the Mode of Trial Hearing: Prosecutorial Control and Marginalising Victims (2006) British Journal of Criminology 46: 704-718.
- “He goes off and I think he took the child”: Narrative (Re)production in the Courtroom (2006) Kings College Law Journal 17: 71-95.
- Deciding upon Mode of Trial (2007) Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 46(4): 372-384.
- ‘Modelling Mode of Trial’ (2008) British Journal of Criminology 48: 482-501, with Stride, C.