!!Lucia Zedner - Biography
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Professor Lucia Zedner FBA, Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, is one of the world's leading scholars of criminal justice.  She has published extensively, and has held visiting positions in Australia, Germany, Israel and the United States, as well as permanent positions in two of the UK's leading universities.  Throughout her career, she has brought her distinctive skills in both historical and comparative scholarship and empirical research to bear on her field. Her first monograph, an early example of feminist criminological scholarship, Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Oxford UP Oxford Historical Monographs 1991), was co-winner of the prestigious Society of Legal Scholars Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (1993).  Throughout her career, she has identified and tackled neglected issues which have gone on to become a key focus of debate: child victims (Child Victims: Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice (Oxford UP 1992) with J Morgan); the rise of a concern with 'security' and is relation to risk (Security (Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology Series 2009 ); the re-emergence of preventive justice (Preventive Justice (Oxford UP, Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice 2014) with A Ashworth). She has also made important contributions to debates about comparative method, punishment theory, risk, security and counterterrorism\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit lzedner}][{ALLOW upload lzedner}][{ALLOW comment All}]