Sentencing Seminar and Launch of Marie Manikis and Gabrielle Watson (eds) Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V Roberts
A list of speakers is within the main text.
Notes & Changes
Registration closes at midday on Monday 3rd March. The Teams link will be sent to you that afternoon.
Refreshments will be available in the Law Faculty Main Foyer, St Cross Building from 15:00pm.
Please join us after the event for a drinks reception also in the Main Foyer 17:30-18:30pm
The seminar
Generously sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Criminology
- Professor Marie Manikis (McGill) and Dr Gabrielle Watson (Edinburgh) Editors’ welcome and opening remarks
'Sentencing Councils: Building Bridges - Not Fences'
- Emeritus Professor Mike Hough (Birkbeck)
'Thirty-Five Years of Research on Attitudes to Punishment'
- Emeritus Professor Nicola Padfield KC (Hon) (Cambridge)
'So What Do Victims Really Deserve?
- Professor Lucia Zedner FBA (Oxford)
Closing remarks
Please join us for a drinks reception in the St Cross Building, Main Foyer from 17.30
The volume
This volume celebrates the achievements of Julian V Roberts KC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, over 40 years of scholarship. To mark his extraordinary influence on sentencing and criminal justice on the global stage, the contributors – a mix of international scholars and members of the judiciary – present a collection of themed essays in his honour.
Roberts is a leading academic authority on sentencing theory, policy, and practice in common law jurisdictions, and his work has made a landmark contribution to the analysis and development of sentencing worldwide. His work is innovative and inspired, known for identifying core challenges and defining research needs before they become central to criminal justice agendas. A distinguished group of authors engage in an interdisciplinary appreciation of Roberts' work in three distinct domains: foundations of sentencing theory, sentencing policy and penal practice, and public opinion and criminal justice.
Drawn from seven jurisdictions, the authors offer fresh insight into Roberts' past accomplishments as well as the future of the field that he continues to shape. Together, they demonstrate a collective commitment to advancing Roberts' lifelong project of normative, comparative, and empirical engagement with questions of crime and justice.