In addition, Shannon has spent time researching the impact of individual differences such as personality, psychopathy, and criminal thinking on crime engagement. Her key research interests are within the experience of crime, namely ‘The Criminal Narrative Experience’, which explores the role that emotions and narratives play during the commission of an offence. She holds a BSc in Psychology (first class) an MSc in Investigative Psychology (with distinction), and a PhD which falls within the practice of Forensic Psychology. More recently, Elena's research has been focusing on migration and asylum law in the UK and within the EU, particularly on the protection and enforcement of asylum seekers and refugees' human rights.įurther to her scientific publications, Elena has been participating into several research projects and regularly attends national and international conferences and events, both as a panellist and as an invited speaker.ĭr Shannon DeBlasio is one of the Senior Lecturers within the School of Criminal Justice at Arden University. She previously worked as Senior Lecturer in Law (2021-2022) and Lecturer in Law (2016-2021) at the University of Bedfordshire, where she was also coordinator of the The Refugee Legal Assistance Project (RLAP), and as post-doc teaching and research fellow at the University of Genoa (2015-2016).Įlena’s research interests cover several aspects of European and international law, such as the protection of fundamental rights within the EU and the ECHR, the constitutional foundations of the European Union and EU private international law.
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Hiri had repeatedly made clear he took full responsibility for the offence, and accepted it had to be taken into account, but asked for that conviction to be weighed in the balance against all of the evidence he had provided for an assessment of his character, the court heard.Dr Elena Gualco is Senior Lecturer in Law and Programme Team Leader in Law at Arden University. The judge held that the home secretary “must consider all aspects of the applicant’s character” where “the statutory test is not whether applicants have previous criminal convictions – it is much wider in scope than that”. No references were sought from his employer, or his personal referees, and there was no interview with the claimant.” “This was not an adequate assessment of the claimant’s character, as required by law. The judge, Justice Lang, said that the decision in May 2012 by a UK Border Agency official, indicated that the assessment of Hiri’s character was based entirely upon the fact that he had an unspent conviction there was no reference to any other aspect of his character and background. He sought a judicial review of the decision by the home secretary, Theresa May. He gave 12 months notice to leave the army in 2011 to study for a degree in architectural technology at London’s South Bank University. Hiri, who has an 18-month-old daughter in Britain with his former girlfriend, served as a military draughtsman with 21 Engineer Regiment. His commanding officer, Major Chloe Plimmer, described Hiri as an intelligent, motivated and hard-working soldier with an exemplary record of conduct, who “had his character put to the test … where his peers have had to depend on him in austere and challenging environments”.īut the Home Office refused his application, citing the speeding offence. He had applied for naturalisation in the UK in February 2012, the high court heard. He said he had feared prosecution and lengthy imprisonment in Botswana under the foreign enlistment act, which made it a criminal offence to act in the military service of another country. He was driving on the M1 near Swinford, Leicestershire, at 1.21am after leaving Ripon barracks, north Yorkshire to begin Easter leave. Hiri was convicted after being filmed on a traffic camera in 2011 travelling at 81mph in an area where there was a temporary 50mph speed limit. The agency claimed the sole speeding offence, for which he had received five points and a £100 fine, was evidence of bad character. Sapper Poloko Hiri, 33, who served four years with the British armed forces and who remains in the reserves, had his application for citizenship refused by the UK Border Agency. Home secretary must review Border Agency refusal of citizenship to Poloko Hiri which ‘denied him full character test’Ī decision to deport a former serving British soldier back to Botswana because of a speeding conviction was legally flawed, the high court ruled on Tuesday, ordering the home secretary to reconsider her decision in accordance with the law.
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