Lucia Zedner
Biography
Lucia Zedner is a Senior Research Fellow in Law at All Souls College, Oxford, a Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law, and a member of the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of The British Academy, an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and was recently elected a Member of the Academia Europaea. She took her DPhil and held a Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford. From 1989-1994, she was a Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics and, from 1994-2016, she was a Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she became a Professor in 2005.
She has served on the editorial boards of many journals, currently, these are Criminal Law Forum, Criminal Law Review, Punishment and Society, Oxford Comparative Law Forum, and Oxford University Press' monograph series Clarendon Studies in Criminology. She has also served on the Research College of the Economic and Social Science Research Council; the Advisory Panel of The Leverhulme Trust; The British Academy Projects Committee and the Law Section Committee. She has held visiting fellowships at universities in Germany, Israel, America, and Australia, and is a long-standing Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty, UNSW, Sydney where she is a regular visitor. She is serving as a Commissioner on an Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy hosted by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law (2022-2025).
Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice, security, counter-terrorism, immigration control, and citizenship, and she is happy to supervise students working in these areas. She has published many articles and chapters in these fields. More recent books include Security (Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology, 2009); Preventive Justice (Oxford University Press, 2014, ppb. 2015) with Andrew Ashworth; Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2016), edited with Mary Bosworth & Carolyn Hoyle; and Privatising Border Control: Law and the Limits of the Sovereign State (Oxford University Press, 2022), edited with Mary Bosworth. Her current research examines the state-citizen relationship to ask what grounds state authority to exercise police power over citizens and non-citizens? What protections are due to individuals against coercive state power? And in what ways is citizenship rendered conditional on compliance?
Publications
Zedner L, ‘Countering extremism or criminalizing curiosity? The troubled history of UK responses to right-wing and other extremism’ (2021) 50(1) Common Law World Review 57
ZEDNER L, ‘THE HOSTILE BORDER: CRIMMIGRATION, COUNTER-TERRORISM, OR CROSSING THE LINE ON RIGHTS?’ [2019] New Criminal Law Review
Zedner L and Ashworth A, ‘The Rise and Restraint of the Preventive State’ (2019) 2 ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRIMINOLOGY, VOL 2 429
Zedner L, ‘Counterterrorism on campus’ (2018) 68(4) UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LAW JOURNAL 545
Zedner L, ‘The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law’ (2018) 22(4) THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY 606
Zedner L, ‘Citizenship Deprivation, Security and Human Rights’ [2016] European Journal of Migration and Law
Zedner L, ‘Penal Subversions: when is a punishment not a punishment, who decides, and on what grounds?’ (2016) 20(1) Theoretical Criminology 43891
Zedner L, ‘Penal subversions: When is a punishment not punishment, who decides and on what grounds?’ (2016) 20(1) Theoretical Criminology 3
Zedner L, ‘Pre-crime and pre-punishment: a health warning’ (2015) 102(1) Criminal Justice Matters 23
Zedner L, ‘Terrorizing Criminal Law’ (2014) 8(1) Criminal Law and Philosophy 99
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Prevention and CriminalizationJustifications and Limits’ (2012) 15(4) New Criminal Law Review 542
Zedner L, ‘Risiko, Sicherheit und Terrorismus: Drei Konzepte auf der Suche nach einer akademishen Disziplin’ (2012) 10 Kriminiologisches Journal 30
Zedner L, ‘Pre-crime and pre-punishment: a health warning’ (2010) 81(1) Criminal Justice Matters 24
Zedner L, ‘Terrorism, the ticking bomb, and criminal justice values’ (2008) 73(1) Criminal Justice Matters 18
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
Zedner L, ‘Book Review: Democracy, Society, and the Governance of Security’ (2007) 11(1) Theoretical Criminology 137
Zedner L, ‘Preventive justice or pre-punishment? The case of control orders’ (2007) 60 Current Legal Problems 174
Zedner L and Loader I, ‘Police beyond Law’ (2007) vol.10, no.1 New Criminal Law Review 142
Zedner L, ‘Policing Before and After the Police’ (2006) 46(1) The British Journal of Criminology 78
Zedner L, ‘Securing Liberty in the Face of Terror: Reflections from Criminal Justice’ (2005) 32(4) Journal of Law and Society 507
Zedner L, ‘Policing Before and After the Police: The Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Crime Control’ (2005) 46 British Journal of Criminology 78
Zedner L, ‘Justice in the risk society: Challenging and reaffirming justice in late modernity’ (2004) 8(4) THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY 512
Zedner L, ‘The concept of security: an agenda for comparative analysis’ (2003) 23(1) Legal Studies 153
Zedner L, ‘Dangers of Dystopias in Penal Theory’ (2002) 22(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 341
Zedner L, ‘Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740–1820. By Peter King (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 383 pp. £55.00)’ (2001) 41(4) The British Journal of Criminology 764
Zedner L and Lacey N, ‘Community in German Criminal Justice: A Significant Absence?’ (1998) 7 Social and Legal Studies 45839
Zedner L, ‘Strafrechtsentwicklung in Europe (Developments in Criminal Law in Europe), vol 4, 1989-1992 - Eser,A, Huber,B’ [1996] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 141
Zedner L and Fattah E, ‘Towards a Critical Victimology’ (1994) 45(3) British Journal of Sociology 521
zedner L, ‘REVIEWS’ (1994) 34(3) The British Journal of Criminology 402
Zedner L, ‘Reparation and Retribution: Are They Reconcilable?’ (1994) 57(2) Modern Law Review 228
ZEDNER L, ‘THE PERSISTENT PRISON - RETHINKING DECARCERATION AND PENAL REFORM. - MCMAHON,MW’ [1994] CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 151
Morgan J and Zedner L, ‘Researching Child Victims — Some Methodological Difficulties’ (1993) 2(4) International Review of Victimology 295
MORGAN J and ZEDNER L, ‘The Victim’s Charter: A New Deal for Child Victims?’ (1992) 31(4) The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 294
Morgan J and Zedner L, ‘The Child Victim in Court’ [1992] The Magistrate 51
Zedner L, ‘Women, Crime, and Penal Responses: An Historical Account’ (1991) 14 Crime and Justice: Annual Review of Research 307
Zedner L, ‘Punishment and the Plurality of Privacy Interests’
Goold B and Zedner L, Crime and Security (2017) 1
Ashworth A and Zedner L, Preventive Justice (Oxford University Press, USA 2014)
Zedner L, Security (Taylor & Francis 2009)
Zedner L, Criminal Justice (OUP 2004) 336
Morgan J and Zedner L, Child Victims, Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 1992)
Zedner L, Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Oxford University Press 1991)
ZEDNER L and Ashworth A, Technologies of Responsibility’: Social Order, Disorderly Citizens, and the State (I Solanke ed., Oxford University Press)
ZEDNER L, ‘Citizenship Deprivation: punishment or rights revocation?’ in M BOSWORTH and others (eds.), Handbook on Border Criminology (Edward Elgar 2024)
ZEDNER L and Lacey N, ‘Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives’ in A Liebling, S Maruna and L McAra (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2023)
ZEDNER L and BOSWORTH M, ‘Border Control, Privatisation, and the State’ in M BOSWORTH and L ZEDNER (eds.), Privatising Border Control Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State (Oxford University Press 2022)
ZEDNER L, ‘Outsourcing the Border Within: Private citizens as border agents, state sovereignty and civil peace’ in M BOSWORTH and L ZEDNER (eds.), Privatising Border Control Law at the Limits of the Sovereign State (Oxford University Press 2022)
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)
Zedner L, ‘Policing civility in public space and the exclusion of uncivil citizens’ in O Beaud et al (ed.), La Citoyenneté comme appurtenance au corps politique (editions Panthéon-Assas 2021)
Zedner L, ‘Unequal Punishment’ in N Lacey et al (ed.), Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment (The British Academy 2021)
Zedner L, ‘Ends and Means: Why Effective Counter-Terrorism Requires Respect for Proportionality and Rights’ in E Billis, N Knust and JP Rui (eds.), Proportionality in Crime Control and Criminal Justice (Hart Publishing 2021)
Zedner L and Stuckenberg C, ‘Due Process’ in K Ambos and others (eds.), Anglo-German Dialogue on Current Issues in Criminal Law and Justice (Cambridge University Press 2020)
Zedner L, ‘El debate sobre el Estado preventivo: aportaciones y retos doctrinales en materia de justicia preventiva’ in AA Rimo and DC Bea (eds.), Derecho penal preventivo, orden público y seguridad ciudadana (Thomson Reuters- Aranzadi 2019)
Zedner L, ‘Curtailing citizenship rights as counterterrorism’ in B Goold and L Lazarus (eds.), Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing 2019)
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Some Dilemmas of Indeterminate Sentences: Risk and Uncertainty, Dignity and Hope’ in JW de Keijser, JV Roberts and J Ryberg (eds.), Predictive Sentencing: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (Hart Publishing 2019)
Simon J and Zedner L, ‘Countering Terrorism at the Limits of Criminal Liability’ in M Dyson and B Vogel (eds.), The Limits of Criminal Law (Intersentia 2018)
Lacey N and Zedner L, ‘Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives’ in S Maruna, Liebling and L McAra (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 6th edition (Oxford University Press 2017)
ZEDNER L, ‘Security against arbitrary government in criminal justice’ in A du Bois-Pedain, M Ulvang and P Asp (eds.), Criminal Law and the Authority of the State (Hart Publishing 2017)
Zedner L, ‘Why Blanket Surveillance Is No Security Blanket’, Privacy and Power (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017)
Zedner L, Bosworth M and Hoyle C, ‘Mapping the contours of criminal justice’ in M Bosworth, C Hoyle and L Zedner (eds.), Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 2016)
Zedner L, ‘Criminal justice in the service of security’ in M Bosworth, C Hoyle and L Zedner (eds.), Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 2016)
Zedner L, ‘Preventive Justice and the Rule of Law’ in J McKenna and A-A Boylan (eds.), Queensland Legal Yearbook 2014 (SCLQ 2016)
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Punishment Paradigms and the Role of the Preventive State’ in A Simester, Neumann and A du Bois Pedain (eds.), Liberal Criminal Theory (2014)
Zedner L, ‘Is the Criminal Law is only for Citizens? A Problem at the Borders of Punishment’ in K Franko Aas and M Bosworth (eds.), The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion (Oxford University Press 2013)
Zedner L, ‘Erring on the side of safety: Risk assessment, expert knowledge, and the criminal court’ in I Dennis and GR Sullivan (eds.), Seeking Security: Pre-empting the Commission of Criminal Harms (Hart Publishing 2012)
Lacey N and Zedner L, ‘The Legal Construction of Crime’ in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2012)
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)
Zedner L, ‘Putting Crime Back on the Criminological Agenda’, What is Criminology? (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2011)
Zedner L, ‘Terrorism and Counterterrorism: What is at Risk?’ in L Skinns, M Scott and T Cox (eds.), Risk (Cambridge University Press 2011)
Ashworth A and Zedner L, ‘Preventive Orders: A Problem of Undercriminalization?’, The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2010)
Zedner L, ‘Reflections on Criminal Justice as a Social Institution’ in D Downes, D Hobbs and T Newburn (eds.), The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control: Essays in Honour of Paul Rock (Oxford University Press 2010)
Zedner L, ‘Opportunity Makes the Thief-Taker: The Influence of Economic Analysis on Crime Control’, The Politics of Crime ControlEssays in Honour of David Downes (Oxford University Press 2009)
Zedner L, ‘Fixing the Future? The pre-emptive turn in criminal justice’ in Bronnit and others (eds.), Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law (Hart Publishing 2009)
Zedner L, ‘Security’ in A Wakefield and R Wild (eds.), The Sage Dictionary of Policing (SAGE 2008)
Zedner L, ‘The Inescapable Insecurity of Security Technologies?’ in Aas, K F. and E al (eds.), Technologies of Insecurity: Surveillance and securitsation of everyday life (Routledge 2008)
Zedner L, ‘Vigilantism’ in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds.), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
Zedner L, ‘Curfews’ in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds.), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
Zedner L, ‘Fines’ in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds.), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
Zedner L, ‘Human Security’ in A Wakefield and R Wild (eds.), The Sage Dictionary of Policing (SAGE 2008)
Zedner L, ‘Rehabilitation’ in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds.), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
Zedner L, ‘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)
Zedner L and Hoyle C, ‘Victims, Victimization, and the Criminal Process’ in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2007)
Zedner L, ‘Useful Knowledge? Debating the Role of Criminology in Post-war Britain’ in L Zedner and A Ashworth (eds.), The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy: Essays in Honour of Roger Hood (2003)
Zedner L, ‘Victims’ in MM et al (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 3rd edn. (OUP 2002)
Zedner L, ‘The Concept of Security: an agenda for comparative analysis’ in G Hanak und W Stangl (ed.), Jahrbuch für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie 2002 Innere Sicherheit (Nomos 2002)
Lacey N and Zedner L, ‘Community and Governance: a cultural comparison’ in S Karstedt and K-D Bussman (eds.), Social Dynamics of Crime and Control (Hart Publishing 2000)
Zedner L, ‘Die Rolle der Kriminologie in Theorie und Praxis des Strafrechts in England’ in C Nestler (ed.), Lernprozesse im Vergleich der Kulturen (edition suhrkamp 1998)
Zedner L, ‘Sentencing Young Offenders’ in A Ashworth and M Wasik (eds.), Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory (Oxford University Press 1998)
Zedner L, ‘Community and Consumerism’ in R Burnett (ed.), The Probation Service: Responding to Change (OPSU 1997)
Zedner L, ‘Victims’ in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 1997)
Zedner L, ‘German Criminal Justice Culture’ in J Feest and E Blankenburg (eds.), Changing Legal Cultures (Onati IISL 1997)
Zedner L, ‘Reparation in Criminal Law - England’ in A Eser and S Walther (eds.), Wiedergutmachung im Kriminalrecht (Eigenverlag Max Planck Institut 1996)
Zedner L, ‘The Prison for Women’ in N Morris and D Rothman (eds.), The Oxford History of the Prison (Oxford University Press 1995)
Zedner L, ‘Comparative Research on Criminal Justice’ in L Noaks, M Levi and M Maguire (eds.), Current Issues in Criminology (University of Wales Press 1995)
Zedner L, ‘Regulating Sexual Offences within the Home’ in I Loveland (ed.), The Frontiers of Criminality (Sweet & Maxwell 1995)
Zedner L, ‘Child Victims’ in IG Jones and G Williams (eds.), Social Policy, Crime and Punishment (University of Wales Press 1994)
Zedner L, ‘Victims’ in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 1994)
Zedner L, ‘Social Control’ in W Outhwaite and T Bottomore (eds.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought (Blackwell 1992)
Morgan J and Zedner L, ‘’Child Victims in the Criminal Justice System’ in D P Farrington and S Walklate (eds.), Offenders and Victims: Theory and Policy (ISDT 1992)
Zedner L, ‘Sexual Offences’ in E Stockdale and S Casale (eds.), Criminal Justice under Stress (Blackstone Press 1992)
Ashworth A, Zedner L and Tomlin P, Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013) 1
Zedner L and Ashworth A, The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy: Essays in Honour of Roger Hood (Oxford University Press 2003) 1
Zedner L, ‘Pre-crime and post-criminology?’, Theoretical Criminology (SAGE Publications 2007)
Zedner L, ‘Neither Safe Nor Sound? The Perils and Possibilities of Risk’, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale (University of Toronto Press 2006)
Zedner L, ‘Too much security?’, International Journal of the Sociology of Law (Elsevier 2003)
Lacey N and Zedner L, ‘Community in German Criminal Justice: a Significant Absence ?’, Social & Legal Studies (SAGE Publications 1998)
Zedner L, ‘In Pursuit of the Vernacular: Comparing Law and Order Discourse in Britain and Germany’, Social & Legal Studies (SAGE Publications 1995)
Zedner L, ‘Security, the State, and the Citizen: The Changing Architecture of Crime Control’ (2010) 13(2) New Criminal Law Review 379 (review)
Zedner L, ‘Liquid security’ (2006) 6(3) Criminology & Criminal Justice 267 (review)
Zedner L, ‘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)
Lacey N and Zedner L, ‘Discourses of Community in Criminal Justice’ (1995) 22(3) Journal of Law and Society 301 (review)
Leigh L and Zedner L, ‘A Report on the Administration of Criminal Justice in the Pre-Trial Phase in France and Germany. The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice - Research Study No 1’ (HMSO 1992)
Zedner L, ‘The Dynamics of Justice: Report of The Howard League Working Party on Criminal Justice Administration’ (The Howard League 1991)
Morgan J and Zedner L, ‘Children as Victims of Crime: Impact, Needs and Responses: A Report to the Home Office’ (1990)