Role: Lecturer in Law, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Wales

  Contact: Fatemi-DehaghaniR@cardiff.ac.uk

  Research Interests:
(Comparative) Criminal Justice | Human Rights | Criminal Procedure | Domestic Violence | Mental Health and Disability Studies | Socio-Legal Approaches to Policing

Roxanna Dehaghani is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, Wales. She earned her PhD in Law from the University of Leicester, England in 2018. Her research interests include ‘vulnerability’ in the criminal justice process, the police custody process, police decision-making and discretion, criminal procedure, human rights as applied to criminal justice, and vulnerability theory. She is currently completing a book entitled ‘Vulnerability in Police Custody: police decision-making and the appropriate adult safeguard’ (Routledge, forthcoming 2018) where she addresses how the appropriate adult safeguard is implemented for adult suspects considered ‘vulnerable’. In this book, she argues that the solution to non-implementation of the safeguard is to extend the notion of vulnerability to all adults in police custody. Roxanna has also published on the decision to detain in police custody (Criminal Law Review), the vulnerability of young suspects in police custody (Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law), domestic violence and abuse (Oxford University Press, with Anna Carline (Leicester), and the vulnerability of criminal justice practitioners and institutions (Oñati Socio-Legal Series, with Dan Newman (Cardiff). This latter paper sought to extend Fineman’s vulnerability thesis to the context of criminal justice