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Lucia Zedner,
FBA (born 20 February 1961) is a British
legal scholar
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...
, who is Professor of Criminal Justice at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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and a senior fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford
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.
Biography
Zedner obtained her doctorate from Nuffield College Oxford (1984–1989), became a Member of the Centre for Criminology (1988), and a Prize Research Fellow. She later became a lecturer in Law at the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
where she was, beginning in 1991, assistant director of the Manheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. In 1994, Zedner returned to Oxford to become a Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College and rejoined the Centre for Criminology. She held a two-year
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
Research Readership from 2003 to 2005. She was awarded the title of reader in 1999 and of professor of criminal justice in 2005, and in 2012 was elected as a fellow of the British Academy.
Publications
Zedner's teaching and research interests include penal theory, comparative criminology, victims, security, risk and anti-terrorist policy. Some of Zedner's publications, collaborations, with reviews, include:
* ''Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England'', (1991)
*:Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring, 1994, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 711–712.
*:Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Winter, 1992, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 683–684.
*:The American Journal of Legal History, Jan., 1993, vol. 37, no. 1, p. 112–113.
*:Review, Law and History Review, Spring, 1996, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 128–131.
* ''Child Victims in the Criminal Justice System'' (with Jane Morgan, 1992)
*:Social Legal Studies Little 2 (1): 118. Social Legal Studies
*:The Modern Law Review, Jul., 1993, vol. 56, no. 4, p. 611–613.
* ''The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy'', co-edited with Andrew Ashworth (2003)
* ''Criminal Justice'' (2004)
*:D. Downes,
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Newsletter
*''Security'' London: Routledge, 2009.
ResearchGate
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, the social networking site for scientists and researchers, lists 39 publications by Lucia Zedner.
References
External links
University of Oxford; Faculty of Law; Professor Lucia Zedner; a profile.Oxford University Press,Academic section, Lucia Zender
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Living people
Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford
Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford
Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
British legal scholars
Academics of the London School of Economics
Legal scholars of the University of Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
1961 births
Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford