Comparative criminal justice as a social practice: the case of standardising indicators

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Speaker biography

Professor Nelken taught law at Cambridge, Edinburgh and University College, London, from 1976-1989 before moving to Italy in 1990 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata.
 From 1995 to 2013 he was also Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and from 2010 to 2014 Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University.
 Awards received include the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award (1985), the Sellin-Glueck International award of the American Criminological Society (2009), the Podgorecki Distinguished senior scholar award from the International Sociological Association (2011) and the (USA) Law & Society Association’s International Scholar Award (2013). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. On the editorial board of numerous journals, he is also a member of the Independent Board of the SCOPUS (Elsevier) Database of peer-reviewed literature, where he is responsible for evaluating all law journals worldwide. Was a Panel member of Scottish Children's Hearings juvenile justiice system 1979-1983, of Italian Regional Crime committees in the 1990's and, amongst many visiting appointments, was the Global Law professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, for 2014. Appointed to the REF Law Committee for 2021.

Selected Publications  

• Beyond the study of ‘law in context, Ashgate 2009; 
• Comparative criminal justice: making sense of difference, Sage 2010; 

• Using legal culture, Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, 2012; 
• Globalisation and crime (with Susanne Karstedt), Ashgate 2013; 
• The Changing Role Of Law in Japan: Empirical Studies in Culture, Society and Policy Making (with Vanoverbeke, Maessschalck and Parmentier) Elgar, 2014