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Associate Professor Thomas Crofts

Associate Dean/Associate Professor
LLB. (Hons), LLM., Dr. iur

Associate Professor Crofts joined the School of Law in 2000. He is a graduate of University College London (LL.B.) and the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (LL.M.). He received his doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/O., Germany. Prior to Murdoch Dr Crofts taught Law at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (1993–1995) and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (1995–1999). He has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Sheffield (2004) and Nottingham (2005 and 2006) and in 2008 he was appointed Visiting Fellow in the School of Law, Birmingham University.

Associate Professor Crofts teaches Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Law in WA, Advanced Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. At Birmingham University he teaches Homicide on the LLM in Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Programme and teaches in the Master of Criminal Justice Programme at the Crime Research Centre of the University of Western Australia. Associate Professor Crofts was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2001 and in 2009. His research interests are comparative criminal law, criminalisation, criminal law reform and criminal responsibility. He has published in English and German in these fields in national and international journals. He is also the author of The Criminal Responsibility of Children and Young Persons in Germany and England and coauthor of the 6th edition of The Criminal Codes.
Career:
   
2008 – Present, Murdoch University Associate Professor
2002 – 2008, Murdoch University Senior Lecturer
2000 – 2001, Murdoch University Lecturer
1995 – 1999, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/O., Germany Lecturer and Researcher
1993 – 1995, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg,
                    Germany 		Lecturer and Researcher
Education:
  • University College London, LLB.(Hons), 1992
  • Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany, LL.M., 1995
  • European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/O., Germany, Dr. iur., 2001
Teaching:

Units taught and coordinated:

  • Criminal Law and Procedure
  • Criminal Law in Western Australia
  • Criminal Justice
  • Advanced Criminal Law
  • Homicide (University of Birmingham)
  • Criminology, Criminal Law and Public Policy (Crime Research Centre, UWA)
2001 awarded Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award.

2009 awarded Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award.

 

 

Research:

Current Research:
  • Criminal Responsibility
  • Homicide Law Reform
  • Regulation of the sex industry
Publications:

Books

  1. Crofts, T. and Burton, K. The Criminal Codes: Commentary and Materials, 6 th ed., (LBC, 2009) ISBN 9780455227054 (784 pages)

  2. Crofts, T. Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia, LexisNexis study guide (LexisNexis, 2009) ISBN 9780409323863

  3. Kendall, C. K., Jardine, A, and Crofts, T. Same Sex Relationships, A Legal Guide for Western Australians Post Law Reform (with) ( Perth: Murdoch Print, 2004) ISBN 0869058649 (264 pages)

  4. Crofts, T. The Criminal Responsibility of Children and Young Persons in Germany and England ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002) ISBN 0754622657 (247 pages)

Refereed articles and book chapters

  1. Crofts, T.  “Labelling Homicides” (2009) 17 Annual Review of Law and Ethics 355–383

  2. Crofts, T.  “Taking the Age of Criminal Responsibility Seriously in England” (2009) 17(4) European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 267–291

  3. Crofts, T.   “Two Degrees of Murder: Homicide Law Reform in England and Western Australia” (2008) 8 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 187–210

  4. Crofts, T.  “Lagging behind Europe: The criminalisation of children in England” (2008) 2 Humanitas Journal of European Studies 1–17

  5. Crofts, T. and Summerfield, T.  “Red Light on Sex Work in Western Australia” (2008) 33 Alternative Law Journal 209–213

  6. Crofts, T.  “The Criminal Responsibility of Children”, in: Young, L. and Monahan, G. (eds.),  Children and the Law in Australia  (Lexis:Nexis, 2008) 167–186

  7. Crofts, T. and  Summerfield, T. “Licensing: Regulating Prostitution or Enforcing Morality?” (2007) 33(2) University of Western Australia Law Review 289–306

  8. Crofts, T. “Die Altersgrenzen im australischen Strafrecht” (2007) 4  Zeitschrift für Jugendkriminalrecht und Jugendhilfe  393–400

  9. Crofts, T.   “Wilful murder, murder – what’s in a name” (2007) 19(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 49–63

  10. Crofts, T.  “Rape, the Mental Element and the Codes” (2007) 7(1) QUT Law and Justice Journal 1–15

  11. Crofts, T.  “A false alarm” (2007) 157 New Law Journal 1226

  12. Crofts, T. and Summerfield, T.  “The Licensing of Sex Work in Australia and New Zealand”, (2006) 13 Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 269–287

  13. Crofts, T.   “Wilful murderers in Western Australia soon to get away with murder?”, (2006) 31 Alternative Law Journal 203–205

  14. Crofts, T.  “Identifying the Criminal Act in Rape”, (2005) 29 Criminal Law Journal 237–243

  15. Crofts, T.  “Do Parents Know Best” (2005) 8 Medizinethik 5, 147–166

  16. Swensen, G. and Crofts, T.  “Reforms to Minor Cannabis Offences in the United Kingdom & Western Australia”, [2005] 1 Web Journal of Current Legal issues (11,270 words)

  17. Crofts, T.  “The Rise of the Principle of Education in the German Juvenile Justice System”, (2004) 12 International Journal of Children’s Rights 401–417

  18. Crofts, T.  “Separating Issues of Life and Death” (2004) 12 Annual Review of Law and Ethics 465–480

  19. Crofts, T.  “Doli Incapax: Why Children Deserve its Protection”, (2003) 10(3) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law (7,499 words)

  20. Crofts, T.  “The Oldest Profession: At Last to be Treated as a Profession?” (2002) 6 Sister in Law 147–167

  21. Crofts, T.  “Prostitution Law Reform” (2002) 27 Alternative Law Journal 184–187

  22. Crofts, T.  “’The right of the Individual or the Common Good?’ – The Euthanasia Debate in Australia”, (2002) 3 Medizinethik 3, 133–152 

  23. Crofts, T.  “Treatment of disease or genetic enhancement?”, with P. Stanglow, (2001) 9 Annual Review of Law and Ethics 219–247

  24. Crofts, T. “Mit zehn Jahren strafmündig” (1999) 111 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, 728–741

  25. Crofts, T.  “Rebutting the Presumption of doli incapax” (1998) 62 Journal of Criminal Law 185–193

  26. Crofts, T. “Die strafrechtliche Verantwortung von Kindern in England” (1996) 108 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 214–228

Shorter articles, book reviews and case notes

  1. Crofts, T.  “Doli incapax: in defence of a defence” (Dec 2008/ Jan 2009) Childright 19–21

  2. Crofts, T.  “Children” (2008) 72(1) Journal of Criminal Law 8–10

  3. Crofts, T.  “Punishing Children in Western Australia” (2004) 2 Carpe Diem 8–10

  4. Crofts, T.  “International Criminal Law” (by Kriangsak Kittiasaree) (2002) 3 Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 124–129

  5. Crofts, T. “Einführung in die anglo-amerikanische Rechtssprache/ Introduction to Anglo-American Law & Language” (by B. Sharon Byrd) (1998) 20 Jura 615–616

  6. Stanglow, P. and Crofts, T. “Kant’s Metaphysik der Sitten: 200 Jahre Tradition in der Unterscheidung von Recht und Moral”, 52 (1997) Juristen Zeitung 663–666

Encyclopaedia Entry

  1. Die Brockhaus Enzyklopädie , 21 st ed. (2005-6),

  2. Entries on the constitutions of Australien, Großbritannien und Nordirland, Hongkong, Irland, Neuseeland, Singapure and on common law legal terms and concepts

Translations

  1. Joerden, “ The Planned Transplant”, Annual Review of Law and Ethics 9 (2001) 181-189

  2. Joerden, “Peter Singer’s Theories and their Reception in Germany”, i n: Raphael Cohen- Almagor ( ed.), Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21 st Century, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 913 (2000) 150-156

  3. Joerden, “On the Logic of Supererogation”, Annual Review of Law and Ethics 6 (1998)

  4. Joerden, “Should we take part in medical research?” Annual Review of Law and Ethics 5 (1997) 205 – 212

  5. Joerden, “From Anarchy to Republic: Kant’s History of State Constitutions”, in: H. Robinson (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, volume 1 (1995), 139 – 156

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