Andrew Ashworth, QC
Emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law
Other affiliations
Centre for CriminologyBiography
Andrew Ashworth was the Vinerian Professor of English Law from 1997 to 2013, and is now Emeritus Professor. He obtained his LL.B. from the London School of Economics (1968), and then took the B.C.L. at Oxford (1970). He obtained a Ph.D. from Manchester University (1973). In 1993 he was awarded the degree of D.C.L. at Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1997 he was appointed a Q.C. Honoris causa. In 1999 he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Advisory Panel,becoming its chair in 2007 until its abolition in 2010. He was awarded the degree of LL.D.honoris causa at De Montfort University in 1998, the degree of Jur. D. honoris causa at Uppsala University in 2003, and the degree of LL.D. honoris causa by the London School of Economcis in 2014 . His first teaching position was as Lecturer (1970-76) then Senior Lecturer (1976-78) at Manchester University. From 1978 to 1988 he was Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, and he served as Acting Director of the University's Centre for Criminological Research from 1982 to 1983, and again from 2003 to 2005. In 1988 he was appointed Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at King's College London, and held that post until moving to All Souls College to take up the Vinerian chair in 1997, retiring from that chair in 2013..
Publications
Ashworth A, ‘The Common Sense and Complications of General Deterrent Sentencing’ [2019] Criminal Law Review -London-
Ashworth A, ‘A New Generation of Omissions Offences?’ [2018] Criminal Law Review -London-
Ashworth A, ‘Positive Duties, Regulation and the Criminal Sanction’ [2017] The Law Quarterly Review
Ashworth A, ‘The Evolution of English Sentencing Guidance in 2016’ (2017) 2017(7) Criminal Law Review 507
Ashworth A, ‘Prisons, Proportionality and Recent Penal History’ [2017] Modern Law Review
Ashworth A, ‘Manslaughter by Omission and the Rule of Law’ (2015) 2015(8) Criminal Law Review 563
Ashworth A, ‘A Decade of Human Rights in Criminal Justice’ (2014) 2014(5) Criminal Law Review 325
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Prevention and CriminalizationJustifications and Limits’ (2012) 15(4) New Criminal Law Review 542
Ashworth A, ‘The Unfairness of Risk-Based Possession Offences’ (2011) 5(3) Criminal Law and Philosophy 237
Roberts J, Hough M and Ashworth A, ‘Personal mitigation, public opinion and sentencing guidelines in England and Wales’ [2011] (7) Criminal Law Review 524
Ashworth A, ‘Ignorance of the Criminal Law, and Duties to Avoid it’ (2011) 74(1) Modern Law Review 1
Ashworth A, ‘(5) Sentencing guidelines and the sentencing council’ [2010] (5) Criminal Law Review 389
Ashworth A, ‘Sentencing Guidelines and the Sentencing Council’ [2010] (5) CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 389
Ashworth A, ‘A Change of Normative Position: Determining the Contours of Culpability in Criminal Law’ (2008) 11(2) New Criminal Law Review 232
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Defending the Criminal Law: Reflections on the Changing Character of Crime, Procedure, and Sanctions’ (2008) 2(1) Criminal Law and Philosophy 21
Ashworth A, ‘Principles, Pragmatism and the Law Commission’s Recommendations on Homicide Law Reform’ (2007) 2007 Criminal Law Review 333
Ashworth A, ‘Four Threats to the Presumption of Innocence’ (2006) 123 South African Law Journal 62
Ashworth A, ‘Four Threats to the Presumption of Innocence’ (2006) 10 International Journal of Evidence and Proof 241
Ashworth A and Player E, ‘Criminal Justice Act 2003: The Sentencing Provisions’ (2005) 68(5) Modern Law Review 822
Van Zyl Smit D and Ashworth A, ‘Disproportionate Sentences as Human Rights Violations’ (2004) 67(4) Modern Law Review 541
Ashworth A, ‘Social Control and ’Anti-Social Behaviour’: the subversion of human rights?’ (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 263
Ashworth A and Dennis I, ‘Fifty years of the <i>Criminal Law Review</i>’ [2004] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 5
Temkin J and Ashworth A, ‘The sexual offences act 2003: (1) - Rape, sexual assaults and the problems of consent’ [2004] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 328
Ashworth A, ‘Criminal justice reform: Principles, human rights and public protection’ [2004] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 516
Ashworth A and Strange M, ‘Criminal Law and Human Rights’ (2004) 2004 European Human Rights Law Review 121
Ashworth A and Strange M, ‘Criminal Law and Human Rights in 2002’ (2003) 2003 European Human Rights Law Review 139
von Hirsch A, Ashworth A and Shearing C, ‘Specifying Aims and Limits for Restorative Justice: A ‘Making Amends’ Model?*’ 21
Ashworth A, ‘Robbery re-assessed’ [2002] (NOV.) Criminal Law Review 851
Ashworth A, ‘Responsibilities, Rights and Restorative Justice’ (2002) 42(3) The British Journal of Criminology 578
Ashworth A, ‘Re-drawing the boundaries of entrapment’ [2002] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 161
Ashworth, ‘Developments in the Public Prosecutor’s Office in England and Wales’ (2000) 8(3) European Journal of Crime Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 257
Ashworth A, ‘The Human Rights Act and the substantive criminal law: A non-minimalist view’ [2000] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 564
Jennings A, Ashworth A and Emmerson B, ‘Silence and safety: The impact of human rights law’ [2000] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 879
Ashworth A and Horder J, Principles of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013) 510
Ashworth A, Postitive Obligations in Criminal Law (Hart Publishing 2013) 221
Ashworth A and Redmayne M, The Criminal Process (Oxford University Press 2010) 471pp
Ashworth A, Sentencing and Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press 2010)
Ashworth A, Principles of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2009)
Ashworth A, Conceptions of Overcriminalization (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 2008) 407
Ashworth A, A Change of Normative Position: Determining the Contours of Culpability in Criminal Law (New Criminal Law Review 2008) 232
Ashworth A and H Zedner L, Defending the Criminal Law: Reflections on the Changing Character of Crime, Procedure and Sanctions (Criminal Law and Philosophy 2008) 21
Ashworth A, Emmerson B and Macdonald A, Human Rights and Criminal Justice (Thomson Sweet & Maxwell 2007) 905
Ashworth A, Principles of Criminal Law, 5th edition (Oxford University Press 2006) 508
Ashworth A and von Hirsch A, Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (Oxford University Press 2005) 238
Ashworth A, Sentencing and Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press 2005) 419
Ashworth A and Redmayne M, The Criminal Process (Oxford University Press 2005) 415
Ashworth A, Principles of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2003) 512
Ashworth A and Zedner L, The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy (Oxford University Press 2003) 553
Ashworth A, Human Rights, Serious Crime and Criminal Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell 2002) 145
Ashworth A and Emmerson B, Human Rights and Criminal Justice (Sweet and Maxwell 2001) 657
ZEDNER L and Ashworth A, ‘Administrative Sanctions: Two Contradictions’’ in M Engelhart (ed.), Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und Risikoprävention. Festschrift für Ulrich Sieber (Duncker & Humblot 2022)
ZEDNER L and Ashworth A, ‘Technologies of Responsibility: Social order, disorderly citizens, and the state’ in I Solanke (ed.), On Crime, Society, and Responsibility in the Work of Nicola Lacey (Oxford University Press, USA 2021)
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Punishment Paradigms and the Role of the Preventive State’ in AP Simester, A Du Bois-Pedain and U Neumann (eds.), Liberal Criminal Theory: Essays for Andreas von Hirsch (Hart Publishing 2014)
Ashworth A, ‘Should Strict Criminal Liability be Removed from all Imprisonable Offences?’, Positive Obligations in Criminal Law (Hart Publishing 2013)
Ashworth A, ‘The Struggle for Supremacy in Sentencing’ in A Ashworth and JV Roberts (eds.), Sentencing Guidelines: Exploring the English Model (Oxford University Press 2013)
Ashworth A, ‘Die Rettungspflicht im englischen Recht’ in A von Hirsch, U Neumann and K Seelman (eds.), Solidaritat im Strafrecht (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2013)
Ashworth A, ‘Eroding the Structure of the Convention? The Public Interest in Prosecutions for Serious Crime’ in KS Ziegler and PM Huber (eds.), Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights (Hart Publishing 2013)
Ashworth A, ‘The Exclusion of Evidence obtained by Violation of a Fundamental Right: Pragmatism before Principle in Strasbourg Jurisprudence’ in P Roberts and J Hunter (eds.), Criminal Evidence and Human Rights: Reimagining Common Law Procedural Traditions (Hart Publishing 2012)
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Preventive Orders: A Problem of Undercriminalization?’, The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (2011)
Ashworth A, ‘Attempts’, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law (2011)
Ashworth A, ‘The Criminal Law’s Ambivalence About Outcomes’, Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility (Oxford University Press 2011)
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Just Prevention: Preventive Rationales and the Limits of the Criminal Law’, Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2011)
Ashworth A, ‘Criminal Justice, Not Criminology?’, What is Criminology? (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2011)
Ashworth A, ‘Child defendants and the doctrines of the criminal law’, Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (2010)
Ashworth A, ‘Criminal Law, Human Rights and Preventative Justice’ in B McSherry, A Norrie and S Bronitt (eds.), Regulating Deviance: the Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law (Hart Publishing 2009)
Ashworth A, ‘’Manslaughter’: Generic or nominate offences?’, Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death (2008)
Ashworth A, ‘Criminal Procedure, Human Rights and Balance’ in T Elholm et al (ed.), Ikke kun Straf: Festskrift til Vagn Greve (Jurist- og Okonomforbundets Forlag 2008)
Ashworth A, ‘Security, Terrorism and the Value of Human Rights’ in B J Goold and L Lazarus (eds.), Security and Human Rights (Hart 2007)
Ashworth A, ‘Plea-Bargaining, Pragmatism and Rights’ in H Muller-Dietz and others (eds.), Festschrift fur Heike Jung (Nomos 2007)
Ashworth A, ‘General Principles of Criminal Law’ in DJ Feldman (ed.), English Public Law (Oxford University Press 2004)
Ashworth A, ‘Exploring the Integrity principle in Evidence and Procedure’ in P Mirfield and RJ Smith (eds.), Essays for Colin Tapper (Butterworths 2003)
Ashworth A, ‘Kriterien fur die Proportionalitat der Strafe’ in W Frisch, A von Hirsch and H-J Albrecht (eds.), Tatproportionalitat (C.F. Muller Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 2003)
Ashworth A, ‘Sentencing and Sensitivity’ in L Zedner and A Ashworth (eds.), The Criminological Foundations Of Public Policy (Oxford University Press 2003)
Ashworth A, ‘Further Notes on Coherence in Criminal Justice’ in P Asp, CE Herlitz and L Holmqvist (eds.), Flores Iuris et Legum: Festskrift till Nils Jareborg (Iustus Vorlag, Uppsala, Sweden 2002)
Ashworth A, ‘Sentencing’ in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 3rd Edn, (Oxford University Press 2002)
Ashworth A, ‘Testing Fidelity to Legal Values: Official Involvement and Criminal Justice’ in S Shute and AP Simester (eds.), Criminal Law Theory: The General Part (Oxford University Press 2002)
Ashworth A and V. Roberts J, Sentencing Guidelines: Exploring the English Model (Oxford University Press 2013) 292
Ashworth A, Zedner L and Tomlin P, Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013) 1
Ashworth A, General Principles of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2009) 1059
Temkin J and Ashworth A, ‘Rape, Sexual Assaults and the Problems of Consent’, Criminal Law Review (2004)
Ashworth A, ‘Departures from the sentencing guidelines’ [2012] (2) Criminal Law Review 81 (review)
Ashworth A, ‘Criminal justice act 2003: (2) Criminal justice reform: Principles, human rights and public protection’ [2004] (JUL.) Criminal Law Review 516 (review)
Ashworth A, ‘Criminal proceedings after the Human Rights Act: The first year’ [2001] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 855 (review)