Kajsa E Dinesson

Profile

Biography

Dr Kajsa E Dinesson

Lecturer in Law

I joined York Law School in 2023. Prior to this I was teaching and completing my PhD research at the University of Edinburgh.

My research involves criminal law theory as well as socio-legal empirical research. My work to date has particularly focused on anti-terror law and policy. I have a particular interest in police and prosecutorial discretion and sentencing in this context. My current areas of interests include discretion; autism and terror-law in policing, prosecutions, and sentencing; and evidence in the terror context. I have research experience from academia as well as from government policy.

I currently teach across criminal law, criminology, legal phiolosophy, and mental health and capacity law.

Research

Overview

My research interests centre on criminal law in theory and in practice. I have a particular interest in anti-terror law and policy, with ongoing work exploring discretion in the criminal process with a focus on neurodiverse young defendants and pre-preparatory terrorism offences. Other ongoing projects include examining the prosecutorial role in the criminal justice process, and outlining a social harm approach to countering terrorism.

Publications

Selected publications

• 2024. A terrorist mindset: findings from an empirical enquiry into prosecutions, evidence, and mindset material. Legal Studies. Published online 2024:1-17. doi:10.1017/lst.2024.34
• 2024. Dinesson, K. E., & Soliman, F. Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism. Justice, Power and Resistance (published online ahead of print 2024).
• 2024. Review. 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'. Law and Humanities, 18(1),  137-142. 
• 2023. Book Review: ‘Precursor crimes of terrorism: the criminalisation of terrorism risk in comparative perspective. Ed by Clive Walker, Mariona Llobet Anglí and Manuel Cancio Meliá’, Edinburgh Law Review 27(2), 236-237.
• 2022. ‘Evidencing terrorist intent – The ambiguities of circumstantial evidence and mind-set material’ (Social & Legal Studies blog, 12 September 2022)
• 2022. ‘(Un)reasonable Excuses – On R v Dunleavy, R v Copeland, and Section 58’, Modern Law Review, 85(6), 1550-1561.
• 2022. ‘Preventing Harm: The “Collection of Information” Offence in Commentary, Case Law and Data’, Criminal Law Review, 6, 469-487.

For a complete and up-to-date list of publications, please click on the link above to my profile in the York Research Database.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

• Dissertation (LLM)

External activities

Overview