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After graduating from St.Anne's College, Oxford in Jurisprudence Shona was called to the Bar of England and Wales and practised criminal and family law from 1 King's Bench Walk, London ( as Shona Mulholland). Her professional experience has led to her research interest in the points of intersection between family and criminal law. Shona is undertaking ESRC funded DPhil research on the impact of short term maternal imprisonment on children, supervised by Dr Rachel Condry and Professor Julian Roberts. The research explores the status of children of prisoners in English law and whether current sentencing policy protects children from 'all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status or activities.. of the child's parents' ( Article 2 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ). The research will engage directly with children and their carers to explore the nature of the impact of maternal imprisonment, and with the judiciary to examine sentencing practice. This research builds on previous research Shona undertook when obtaining an MSc (Distinction) from the University of Surrey in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research. Her Masters research explored the impact of motherhood as mitigation in criminal sentencing through qualitative interviews with members of the judiciary and an analysis of sentencing transcripts.
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The 1989 Children Act Explained (2000) , Gibson, C., James,.R., Mulholland, S., Grice, J. HMSO : London
Research: women's imprisonment, children of prisoners, criminal sentencing policy, rights of the child
