Lucia Zedner
Professor of Criminal Justice
On sabbatical leave this term.
Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice, Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and a Member of the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
She was formerly a student and then Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford (1984-89) and a lecturer at the London School of Economics (1989-94). From 2003-2005 she held a British Academy Research Readership; from 2006-2008 she was Director of Graduate Studies (Research) for the Law Faculty; and from 2005-08 she served on the Research College of the Economic and Social Science Research Council. She was elected a Fellow of The British Academy in 2012.
She has held visiting fellowships at universities in Germany, Israel, America, and Australia. Since 2007 she has also held the position of Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Sydney where she is a regular visitor.
She has served on the editorial boards of many journals: currently these include the Criminal Law Review, European Journal of Criminology, International Journal of Criminal Law Education, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and the Oxford Comparative Law Forum.
She is also the General Editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series Clarendon Series in Criminology. Professor Zedner is currently co-directing with Andrew Ashworth a three-year study of Preventive Justice generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which will re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of crime prevention and public protection.
Publications
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J Morgan and L Zedner, Child Victims, Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 1992)
L Zedner and B Goold (eds), Crime and Security (Ashgate 2006) [...]
Edited volume of leading articles in the field selected and introduced by us.
ISBN: 0 7546 2600 8
L Zedner, Criminal Justice (OUP 2004)
L Zedner, 'Curfews' in Peter Cane & Joanne Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
L Zedner, 'Dangers of Dystopias in Penal Theory - Extended review of David Garland, The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).' (2002) 22 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 341 [Review] [...]
Extended review of David Garland The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
ISBN: 0143-6503
L Zedner and A Ashworth, 'Defending the Criminal Law: Reflections on the changing character of crime, procedure, and sanctions' (2008) 2 Journal of Criminal Law and Philosophy 21
L Zedner, 'Erring on the side of safety: Risk assessment, expert knowledge, and the criminal court' in I Dennis & GR Sullivan (eds), Seeking Security: Pre-empting the Commission of Criminal Harms (Hart Publishing 2012)
L Zedner, 'Fines' in Peter Cane & Joanne Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
L Zedner, 'Fixing the Future? The pre-emptive turn in criminal justice' in Bronnit, S, McSherry, B & Norrie, A. (eds), Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law (Hart Publishing 2009)
L Zedner, 'Human Security' in A Wakefield and R Wild (eds), The Sage Dictionary of Policing (SAGE 2008)
A Ashworth and L Zedner, 'Just Prevention: preventive rationales and the limits of the criminal law' in RA Duff & S Green (eds), Philosophical Foundations of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2011)
L Zedner, 'Liquid Security: Managing the market for crime control' (2006) 6 (2) Criminology and Criminal Justice 267 [...]
This article examines attempts to regulate the growing private security market drawing on the literatures of economic analysis of law and regulation.
ISBN: 1748-8958
L Zedner, 'Neither safe nor sound? The perils and possibilities of risk' (2006) 48/3 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 423 [...]
Examines the implications of risk reduction as a basis for penal policy and explores how adjacent social scientific disciplines conceive, deploy, and respond to risk.
ISBN: 1707-7753
L Zedner, 'Opportunity makes the Thief-Taker: the influence of economic analysis on crime control' in T Newburn and P Rock (eds), The Politics of Crime Control (Oxford University Press 2006) [...]
An appraisal of the impact of economic analysis/rational choice theory on criminal justice politics and Home Office policy making.
ISBN: 0-19-920840-9
L Zedner and I Loader, 'Police beyond Law' (2007) vol.10, no.1 New Criminal Law Review 142 [...]
Critical review essay of Markus Dubber The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government.
ISBN: 1933-4192
L Zedner, 'Policing before and after the Police: the historical antecedents of contemporary crime control' (2006) 46 British Journal of Criminology 78 [...]
Pre-published since early 2005 on Oxford University Website. Print version should appear early 2006.Compares current developments in the privatisation of security with 18thC markets in policing and prosecution.
ISBN: 0007-0955
L Zedner, 'Pre-crime and post-criminology?' (2006) 11 (2) Theoretical Criminology 261
L Zedner, 'Pre-crime and pre-punishment: a health warning' (2010) Criminal Justice Matters
A Ashworth and L Zedner, 'Prevention and Criminalization: Justifications and Limits' (2012) 15 New Criminal Law Review 542
A Ashworth, L Zedner and P Tomlin (eds), Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013) [...]
Edited volume of essays by leading criminal lawyers, political theorists and philosophers on criminalization for the purposes of preventing harmful wrongdoing.
L Zedner, 'Preventive justice or pre-punishment? The case of control orders ' (2007) 60 Current Legal Problems 174
L Zedner and Andrew Ashworth, 'Preventive Orders: a problem of undercriminalization' in RA Duff, L Farmer, S Marshall, M Renzo & V Tadros (eds), The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2010)
L Zedner and J Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (Oxford University Press 2012) [...]
Festschrift or collection of essays in honour of Professor Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Chair of English Law, University of Oxford, with a substantial Introductory Essay by the Editors.
ISBN: 978-0-19-969679-6
L Zedner, 'Punishment and the Plurality of Privacy Interests' in E Claes and A Duff (eds), Privacy and the Criminal Law ( 2006) [...]
Questions the status of privacy as a right and attempts to articulate the range of interests that arise when reference is made to privacy.
ISBN: 90-5095-545-2
L Zedner, 'Putting Crime back on the Criminological Agenda' in M Bosworth & C Hoyle (eds), What is Criminology? (Oxford University Press 2011)
L Zedner, 'Reflections on Criminal Justice as a Social Institution' in D Downes, D Hobbs & T Newburn (eds), The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honour of Paul Rock (Oxford University Press 2010)
L Zedner, 'Rehabilitation' in Peter Cane & Joanne Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
L Zedner, 'Risiko, Sicherheit und Terrorismus: Drei Konzepte auf der Suche nach einer akademishen Disziplin' (2012) 10 Kriminiologisches Journal 30
L Zedner, 'Securing Liberty in the face of Terror: Reflections from Criminal Justice' (2005) 32 Journal of Law and Society 507
L Zedner, Security (Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology Series 2009)
L Zedner, 'Security' in A Wakefield & R Wild (eds), The Sage Dictionary of Policing (SAGE 2008)
L Zedner, 'Security, the State, and the Citizen: The Changing Architecture of Crime Control' (2010) 13 New Criminal Law Review 379–403
L Zedner, 'Seeking Security by Eroding Rights: The Side-stepping of Due Process' in L. Lazarus and B. Goold (eds), Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing 2007)
L Zedner, 'Terrorism and Counterterrorism: What is at Risk?' in L Skinns, M Scott & T Cox (eds), Risk (Cambridge University Press 2011)
L Zedner, 'Terrorism, the ticking bomb, and criminal justice values ' (2008) 73 Criminal Justice Matters 18
L Zedner, 'The Concept of Security: an agenda for comparative analysis' in Jahrbuch fuer Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie '02 (Nomos 2003) [...]
Chapter in leading German Annual on 'Legal and criminal sociology' on the theme of 'Innere Sicherheiten' (rough trans. 'Security')
ISBN: 3-8329-0084-5
L Zedner, 'The Concept of Security: an agenda for comparative analysis' (2003) 23 Legal Studies 153 [...]
Substantially revised and expanded version of the article that earlier appeared in Jahrbuch fuer Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie(2003).
ISBN: 0-406-95932-3
L Zedner and A Ashworth (eds), The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy: Essays in Honour of Roger Hood (Oxford University Press 2003) [...]
Festschrift or collection of essays in honour of Roger Hood. Edited by me and Ashworth with substantial Introductory Essay by us as Editors.
ISBN: 0-19-926509-7
L Zedner, 'The Inescapable Insecurity of Security Technologies?' in Aas, K. F., et al (eds), Technologies of Insecurity: Surveillance and securitsation of everyday life (Routledge 2008)
N Lacey and L Zedner, 'The Legal Construction of Crime' in M Maguire, R Morgan & R Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2012)
L Zedner, 'Too Much Security?' (2003) 31 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 155
L Zedner, 'Useful Knowledge? Debating the Role of Criminology in Post-war Britain' in L Zedner & A Ashworth (eds), The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy: Essays in Honour of Roger Hood ( 2003) [...]
Chapter in Festschrift for Roger Hood
ISBN: 0-19-926509-7
L Zedner, 'Victims' in M.Maguire et al (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 3rd edn. (OUP 2002) [...]
Substantially revised chapter on victims for third edition of this major student text.
ISBN: 0-19-925609-8
L Zedner and Carolyn Hoyle, 'Victims, Victimization, and the Criminal Process' in M Maguire, R Morgan & R Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2007) [...]
Authoritative overview of the literature and research on victims and their role in the criminal process for the key criminological textbook in the field.
ISBN: 978-0-19-920543-1
L Zedner, 'Vigilantism' in Peter Cane & Joanne Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
L Zedner, Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Oxford University Press 1991)
Research Projects
Interests
Teaching: Criminology and Criminal Justice; Criminal Law; Philosophy of Law; Criminology
Research: Security; criminal law; criminal justice; counter-terrorism; penal theory and philosophy of criminal law
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Correspondence address:
Corpus Christi College
Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4JF
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