Miss Jessica Elliott

• Qualifications:LLB (Hons), LLM (International and Comparative Public Law, University of Exeter), PhD (University of Birmingham)
• Position:Senior Lecturer: Law
• Department:FBL - Law
• Telephone:+4411732 82974
• Email:Jessica.Elliott@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Dr Jessica Elliott has been a Senior Lecturer in Law at UWE since September 2009, and Head of the Criminal Justice Research Unit since March 2014. Prior to this post, Jessica was a doctoral candidate and postgraduate teaching assistant in the School of Law at the University of Birmingham.

Jessica successfully studied for LLB at Swansea University (1999 - 2002), LLM at Exeter University (2004 - 2005), and PhD at the University of Birmingham (2005 - 2009). Her doctoral thesis focused upon the role of consent in human trafficking.

Area of expertise

Research and teaching expertise:

Human trafficking, sexual exploitation, prostitution, consent, migration.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles:       

• J Elliott 'The National Referral Mechanism: Querying the Response of 'First Responders' and the Competence of 'Competent Authorities'', JIANL (2016), 30(1), 9-30

• J Elliott '(Mis)Identification of Victims of Human Trafficking: The Case of R v O', Int J Refugee Law (2009) 21 (4): 727-741

• J Elliott and K McCartan, 'The Reality of Trafficked People's Access to Technology' The Journal of Criminal Law (2013) 77 JCL 255–273

Book Chapters:

• J Elliott 'Criminalising the Purchase of Sexual Services: The Use of Strict Liability as a Form of Risk Management?' In Child, Doolin, Beech and Rain (Eds.) Whose Criminal Justice: Regulatory State or Empowered Communities?, (Waterside Press, 2011)

• J Elliott, 'Victims or Criminals: The Example of Human Trafficking', in The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking, M Joao (Ed.) (Springer, 2015)

Books:

• J Elliott, The Role of Consent in Human Trafficking, (Routledge 2015) 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

• 'Victim Participation in the Prosecution of Traffickers' (March 2015), Understanding Sexual Violence and Abuse: Causes, Consequences and Prevention – Public engagement event sponsored by Social Science in the City and the Centre for Legal Research (UWE)

• 'Prosecuting Human Trafficking' (Sept 2014) SLS Conference 2014, Migration Section

• 'Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking: Bringing Down the Barriers' (June 2014) Human Trafficking: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century, hosted at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

• 'The Reality of Trafficked Persons Access to Technology' (July 2012) North South Irish Criminology Conference (Paper co-authored with Dr Kieran McCartan, Criminology, UWE)

• 'Victim or Criminals: The Example of Human Trafficking', (October 2012) 1st Crimmigration International Conference - CINETS 

• 'Human Trafficking in Context: The role of 'Economic Coercion'', (September 2011) SLS Conference 2011, Migration Section

• 'Who Pays the Price? Tackling the Demand for Sexual Services' (September 2011) SLS Conference 2011, Criminal Justice Section

• 'The Role of Consent in Human Trafficking', (September 2010) SLS Conference 2010, Open A Section

FUNDING OBTAINED

• Strategic Research Development Fund (SRDF) award, UWE, 2013 – 2014: award of £10,000 (with two colleagues) to conduct empirical research into prosecution and conviction rates as regards human trafficking offences in the UK.

• SPUR 4, Early Career funding, UWE, 2012 – 2013:  Award of £5790 to undertake a project focussing on the barriers to identification of trafficked victims.

• Centre for Legal Research, UWE, 2011 – 2012:  Awarded (together with a colleague) £2,111 to conduct empirical research into the access that trafficked victims have to communication technology.

• Graduate School, University of Birmingham, 2008 – 2009: £500 awarded to run a Postgraduate Research Seminar Series, Birmingham Law School.

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