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Jill Peay is a Professor of Law, a member of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and an Honorary Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers. Her PhD in Psychology was obtained from Birmingham University in 1980, and, having taken the CPE (exemptions) in 1990, she qualified as a Barrister in 1991. She joined the LSE in 1996, having been previously employed at Brunel University and the Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research.
Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk
Research
Jill Peay’s book on Mental Health and Crimewas published in 2010 by Routledge. It appeared in the Glasshouse Press series on Contemporary Issues in Public Policy, edited by David Downes and Paul Rock. She co-edited (with Tim Newburn) Policing: Politics, Culture and Control, a book of essays in honour of Robert Reiner. The book was published in June 2012 by Hart Publishing, Oxford.
She is involved with a Nuffield Foundation funded project on Unfitness to Plead: ‘Fitness to plead: The impact of cognitive abilities and psychopathology’ with Nigel Blackwood (Kings College London) and Michael Watts (University College London). The project has been developing an instrument to assess an accused’s capacity to plead to an indictment and engage with any ensuing trial processes. The work was conducted alongside the Law Commission’s proposals on Unfitness to Plead. See https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/unfitness-to-plead/ Aspects of this work are on-going.
She has been working (with Elaine Player – Kings College, London) on a critique of the Sentencing Council’s Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea. This has resulted in an article which is forthcoming in the Modern Law Review(see below).
Publications
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Engagement and impact
Editorships of journals and publications series
- Joint General Editor of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology Series for Oxford University Press (2014-6)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2014-)
Membership Research Councils, advisors to select or other parliamentary committees
- In November 2003 Jill Peay chaired, at the request of the Department of Health, a stakeholders meeting to review the issues concerning the proposals for the new Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection. Representative participants from various professional bodies, user and carer groups, academics and members of the existing Mental Health Act Commission attended, together with the Minister, Rosie Winterton.
- Memorandum to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill 2004. DMH 407. Written evidence available on the JSC web-site.
Membership advisory Boards etc to national governments/international governments/ NGOs
- 2001-2013 Jill Peay was a member of MOD(N)PREC, the Ministry of Defence (Navy) Personnel Research Ethics Committee. This independent Committee reviewed all proposals for research involving human volunteers for the Navy. Members had enhanced security clearance. The Committee’s work was extended in 2006 to embrace all three armed services and became MoD(REC). The Committee reported to the Surgeon General and the Under Secretary of State for Defence.
- Jill Peay also reviews research proposals for both the Nuffield Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
- 2015-2017 Member of Advisory Board for Nuffield funded research on the Court of Protection. http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/wccop/new-research-an-overview-of-welfare-cases-in-the-court-of-protection/
- In 2007 Jill Peay was appointed to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Dementia: Ethical Issues. This multi-disciplinary body of experts has been established to examine the ethical, legal, economic and social issues raised by dementia. The Working Party issued a consultation document in the spring of 2008 and received numerically the greatest response the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has had to one of its consultations. A Final report was published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in September 2009.
Research collaborations
- In 2001 Jill Peay was appointed as a member of the Development Group of LoMHR&D (the London Mental Health Research and Development Virtual Institute), established to facilitate and conduct high quality mental health research and development across London. LoMHR&D disbanded as an entity in 2007.
- Four national symposia and several specialist seminars have been organised since inception. LoMHR&D became the effective academic arm of the Department of Health funded London Development Centre for Mental Health.
- She also chaired an interactive session at MDAC’s first international conference on Inspectorates of Mental Health and Social Care Institutions in the European Union held in 2006 in Budapest.
- Jill Peay’s involvement with MDAC has also led to work in the former EU accession countries, providing training in mental health law and human rights. For example, she was the joint course tutor for two courses in Warsaw (September 2002) and Tallinn (November 2002). This training involved both mental health lawyers and clinical practitioners about the relevance of the ECHR to their domestic practices; visiting institutions and holding discussions with mental health personnel prior to the training played a key element in this process. Furthermore, she has been involved in teaching at the Central European University in Budapest for the Masters’ course on Mental Disability Law and Advocacy.
- She was a member of the International Advisory Board for the Guardianship Project, for the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC) in Budapest. MDAC promotes and protects the human rights of people with mental disabilities in the 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. The Guardianship Board oversaw and implemented research in eight countries; the research focussed both on the nature of the legal provisions for guardianship and their application in respect of adults with mental disabilities. Reports for each of the research countries are available on the MDAC website: http://www.mdac.info/projects/guardian.html
- Jill Peay was a member of the advisory team for the University of Bristol based ‘Review of reviews of research relevant to forensic mental health’, part of the NHS National Research and Development Programme on Forensic Mental Health.
- Jill Peay was asked to act as an advisor to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health’s research into the mental health implications of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) a new sentence for ‘dangerous’ offenders introduced under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. A final report was published in 2008: In the dark: The mental health implications of Imprisonment for Public Protection.