Dr VICKY KEMP's Outputs (26)

Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment (2024)
Book Chapter
Kemp, V., & Gibson, C. (2024). Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment. In M. Langer, M. McConville, & L. Marsh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing

This Chapter examines implications for legal education and training of lawyers when working within an environment where clients are under pressure to plead guilty. After first considering the background to plea bargaining, and the increasing pressure... Read More about Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment.

A Child's Journey Through Police Custody And Their Legal Rights (2023)
Book Chapter
Kemp, V., & Carr, N. (2023). A Child's Journey Through Police Custody And Their Legal Rights. In E. Johnston (Ed.), Covid-19 and Criminal Justice: Impact and Legacy in England and Wales (62-89). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003281481-5

In this chapter we explore a child’s journey through police custody and while the intention was to explore the impact of Covid-19 on children’s experiences, we found little differences in practice at the time the fieldwork was conducted. However, thi... Read More about A Child's Journey Through Police Custody And Their Legal Rights.

Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects (2023)
Report
Kemp, V., Carr, N., Kent, H., & Farrall, S. (2023). Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects. London: University of Nottingham

The Nuffield Foundation funded this three year project which involved examining the efficacy of legal safeguards for children held in police custody. A mixed methods approach was adopted drawing on over 50,000 electronic custody records drawn from e... Read More about Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects.

Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023 (2023)
Report
KEMP, V., Carr, N., Kent, H., & Farrall, S. (2023). Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023. London: University of Nottingham

This is the Executive Summary of the final report arising out of a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation which involved examining the efficacy of legal safeguards for children held in police custody. A mixed methods approach was adopted drawing on... Read More about Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023.

Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
Kemp, V., & Watkins, D. (2021). Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales. Youth Justice, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254211030597

While studies have explored adult suspects’ understanding of their legal rights, seldom are the experiences of children and young people taken into account. In this article, we discuss findings arising out of research interviews conducted with 61 chi... Read More about Exploring Children’s Understanding of the Legal Rights of Suspects in England and Wales.

Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice (2020)
Journal Article
Kemp, V. (2020). Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice. Criminal Law Review, 2020(2), 129-147

This study involved using an App to explore with detainees their understanding of the right to a lawyer and to identify what factors influence the take-up of legal advice. Also examined in this paper, from the users’ perspective, are potential barrie... Read More about Digital legal rights: Exploring detainees' understanding of the right to a lawyer and potential barriers to accessing legal advice.

Digital legal rights for suspects: users' perspectives and PACE safeguards (2018)
Book
Kemp, V. Digital legal rights for suspects: users' perspectives and PACE safeguards. University of Nottingham

Research has consistently shown that many people do not understand their legal rights when arrested by the police. In seeking to help address this problem, a prototype App was developed to provide information to suspects when detained by the police.... Read More about Digital legal rights for suspects: users' perspectives and PACE safeguards.

Effective police station legal advice - Country Report 5: Northern Ireland (2018)
Book
Kemp, V. Effective police station legal advice - Country Report 5: Northern Ireland. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for Northern Ireland has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structur... Read More about Effective police station legal advice - Country Report 5: Northern Ireland.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 3: Ireland (2018)
Book
Kemp, V. (2018). Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 3: Ireland. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for Ireland has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structured interv... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 3: Ireland.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 6: Scotland (2018)
Book
Kemp, V. (2018). Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 6: Scotland. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for Scotland has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structured inter... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 6: Scotland.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 1: Belgium (2018)
Book
Maegherman, E., Vanderhallen, M., & Kemp, V. (2018). Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 1: Belgium. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for Belgium has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structured interv... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 1: Belgium.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 4: The Netherlands (2018)
Book
Maegherman, E., Vanderhallen, M., & Kemp, V. (2018). Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 4: The Netherlands. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for the Netherlands has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structure... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 4: The Netherlands.

Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales (2018)
Book
Kemp, V. (2018). Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales. University of Nottingham

This Country Report for England and Wales has arisen out of a comparative study into police station legal advice, led by Dr Vicky Kemp, University of Nottingham. She received a small grant from the British Academy/Leverhulme to undertake semi-structu... Read More about Effective Police Station Legal Advice - Country Report 2: England and Wales.

Clinical legal education and experiential learning: looking to the future (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kemp, V., Munk, T., & Gower, S. (2016). Clinical legal education and experiential learning: looking to the future. University of Manchester, School of Law

England and Wales: Empirical Findings (2016)
Book Chapter
Kemp, V., & Hodgson, J. (2016). England and Wales: Empirical Findings. In M. Vanderhallen, M. V. Oosterhout, M. Panzavolta, & D. D. Vocht (Eds.), Interrogating young suspects: procedural safeguards from an empirical perspective. Intersentia

Ensuring 'appropriate' protections for young suspects (2015)
Book Chapter
Hodgson, J., & Kemp, V. (2015). Ensuring 'appropriate' protections for young suspects. In M. Panzavolta, D. de Vocht, M. van Oosterhout, & M. Vanderhallen (Eds.), Interrogating young suspects: procedural safeguards from a legal perspective. Intersentia

The book is the result of the first part of the European Commission funded research project 'Protecting young suspects in interrogations: a study on safeguards and best practice'. The legal study underlying this volume consisted of comparative resear... Read More about Ensuring 'appropriate' protections for young suspects.

PACE, performance targets and legal protections (2014)
Journal Article
Kemp, V. (2014). PACE, performance targets and legal protections. Criminal Law Review, 2014(4),

Managerial influences in the criminal justice system have become increasingly dominant over recent years. There has also been a drift towards summary justice, with the police formally dealing with a significant proportion of cases out-of-court. In th... Read More about PACE, performance targets and legal protections.

The Bridewell Legal Advice Study: Adopting a ‘Whole-Systems’ Approach to Police Station Legal Advice – Final Report (2013)
Report
Kemp, V. (2013). The Bridewell Legal Advice Study: Adopting a ‘Whole-Systems’ Approach to Police Station Legal Advice – Final Report

The Bridewell Legal Advice Study was intended to improve access to legal advice by basing duty solicitors in a large city centre police station. Implications for legal advice, for changing relations between the police and the defence, and in improvin... Read More about The Bridewell Legal Advice Study: Adopting a ‘Whole-Systems’ Approach to Police Station Legal Advice – Final Report.

"No time for a solicitor": implications for delays on the take-up of legal advice (2013)
Journal Article
Kemp, V. (2013). "No time for a solicitor": implications for delays on the take-up of legal advice. Criminal Law Review,

A study of police custody records highlighted variations between police stations both in the take-up of legal advice and also in the average length of time people were held in custody. To further explore unobserved factors which might impact on such... Read More about "No time for a solicitor": implications for delays on the take-up of legal advice.

Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST): an innovation in police station legal advice: interim report (2012)
Report
Kemp, V. (2012). Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST): an innovation in police station legal advice: interim report

The Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST) was an innovative project which attempted to help improve access to legal advice by basing duty solicitors in a large city centre police station. It had been intended that the project would run over a three mo... Read More about Bridewell Legal Advice Study (BLAST): an innovation in police station legal advice: interim report.

Whose time is it anyway?: factors associated with duration in police custody (2012)
Journal Article
Kemp, V., Balmer, N. J., & Pleasence, P. (2012). Whose time is it anyway?: factors associated with duration in police custody. Criminal Law Review, 10,

This study is based on a statistical analysis of police custody records. We earlier examined the take-up of legal advice and now turn our attention to the time people spend in police custody. We find that the average time people are detained seems to... Read More about Whose time is it anyway?: factors associated with duration in police custody.

Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE (2011)
Journal Article
Kemp, V., Pleasence, P., & Balmer, N. (2011). Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE. Youth Justice, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225410394288

Informed by data extracted from 30,921 police electronic custody records, drawn from 44 police stations across four police force areas and including 5153 records of juveniles aged 10 to 17 years, this article examines the take-up of legal advice by c... Read More about Children, young people and requests for police station legal advice: 25 years on from PACE.

The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE (2011)
Journal Article
Pleasence, P., Kemp, V., & Balmer, N. (2011). The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE. Criminal Law Review, 2011(1),

January 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the unequivocal right of police station detainees to obtain advice from a solicitor. However, while this right is a fundamental safeguard to procedural propriety, no large-scale investiga... Read More about The justice lottery?: police station advice 25 years on from PACE.

Transforming legal aid: access to criminal defence services (2010)
Book
Kemp, V. (2010). Transforming legal aid: access to criminal defence services. Ministry of Justice

With legal aid reform having the potential to change the organisation of criminal defence services a survey of users in the criminal justice system was undertaken. The findings helped to highlight potential barriers to legal advicea and further resea... Read More about Transforming legal aid: access to criminal defence services.

Youth Court Research Project: a scoping study adopting a ‘whole-systems’ approach to the processing of cases in the Youth Courts (2008)
Book
Kemp, V. (2008). Youth Court Research Project: a scoping study adopting a ‘whole-systems’ approach to the processing of cases in the Youth Courts. Legal Services Research Centre

This study examined the processing of youth court cases prior to changes brought about by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The study adopted a ‘whole-systems’ review of the operation and efficiency of youth court cases in one county area. The key fin... Read More about Youth Court Research Project: a scoping study adopting a ‘whole-systems’ approach to the processing of cases in the Youth Courts.

Criminal defence services: users’ perspectives: an interim report (2008)
Book
Kemp, V., & Balmer, N. (2008). Criminal defence services: users’ perspectives: an interim report. Legal Services Research Centre

A survey was undertaken of over 1,000 people drawn into the criminal justice system in order to find out more about their choice and use of a solicitor: 212 suspects interviewed in police stations, 767 in magistrates’ courts and 163 female prisoners.... Read More about Criminal defence services: users’ perspectives: an interim report.