Biography

Daniele joined the School of Law in August 2008. Previously, she was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Manchester, where she taught criminal law and criminal justice, and has recently submitted a PhD thesis on the relationship between late guilty pleas and plea bargaining. She also taught at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

Research Interests

Plea bargaining; adversarial vs. negotiated or consensual models of justice; criminal justice policy; the impact of public opinion on policy; sentencing; sexual offences.

Publications

Conference Papers

‘Plea bargaining: the role of the defence lawyer’ Society of Legal Scholars Conference, 2007.

‘Researching hidden practices in criminal justice: Plea bargaining’ British Society of Criminology Conference, 2007.

‘Goodyear Indications: pressures to plead guilty, misguided managerialism or consensus justice?’ Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, 2008.

‘The relationship between cracked trials and plea bargaining: an empirical study’ Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, 2009.

Teaching

Criminal Law

Criminal Justice

Departmental Duties

Academic Misconduct Officer

Streetlaw Scheme liaison

Affiliations

Member of:

British Society of Criminology

Society of Legal Scholars

Socio-Legal Studies Association (convenor of the criminal justice stream of the SLSA annual conference 2010)