Lucia Zedner

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Lucia Zedner holds the position of Professor of Criminal Justice in the University of Oxford and is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Lucia Zedner obtained her doctorate from Oxford and subsequently became a Member of the Centre for Criminology in 1988 and a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College before becoming a Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics where she was, from 1991, Assistant Director of the Manheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. In 1994 she 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 Research Readership from 2003 to 2005. She was awarded the title of Reader in 1999 and of Professor of Criminal Justice in 2005.

Her publications include:

  • Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England (1991)
  • Child Victims (with Jane Morgan, 1992)
  • The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy, co-edited with Andrew Ashworth (2003)
  • Criminal Justice (2004)
  • and many articles and chapters in the field of Criminal Justice.

Her teaching and research interests include penal theory, comparative criminology, victims, security, risk and anti-terrorist policy.

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