Jill Peay

Experience Keywords

mental health law; mentally disordered offenders

Research Summary

Jill Peay researches and advises widely on the issue of mental health and its relation to law. Her book on ‘Mental Health and Crime’ was published in 2010 by Routledge and appeared in the Glasshouse Press series on Contemporary Issues in Public Policy, edited by David Downes and Paul Rock.

Professor Peay is also involved with a Nuffield Foundation-funded project on unfitness to plead: ‘Fitness to plead: The impact of cognitive abilities and psychopathology’, with Nigel Blackwood (Kings College London) and Michael Watts (University College London). The project is designed to develop an instrument to assess an accused’s capacity to plead to an indictment and engage with any ensuing trial processes. The work is being conducted alongside the Law Commission’s proposals: Law Commission (2010) ‘Unfitness to Plead’ Consultation Paper no 197.

Among her other activities, Professor Peay is on the Editorial Board of OUP’s Clarendon Studies in Criminology Series. She was also a longstanding member of the Ministry of Defence’s Research Ethics Committee and a member of the International Advisory Board for the Guardianship Project, for the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre (MDAC) in Budapest.

In October 2013 Professor Peay delivered the first public lecture in the Law Department’s Law Matters series entitled Imprisoning the mentally disordered: a manifest injustice?

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