Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice

Essays in Honour of Julian V Roberts
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-888386-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 671 g

This volume celebrates the achievements of Julian V Roberts KC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, over forty years of scholarship. To mark his extraordinary influence on sentencing and criminal justice on the global stage, the contributors—a mix of international scholars and members of the judiciary—present a collection of themed essays in his honour.

Roberts is a leading academic authority on sentencing theory, policy, and practice in common law jurisdictions and his work has made a landmark contribution to the analysis and development of sentencing worldwide. His work is innovative and inspired, known for identifying core challenges and defining research needs before they become central to criminal justice agendas. A distinguished group of authors engage in an interdisciplinary appreciation of Roberts' work in three distinct domains: fundamentals of sentencing and penal theory, sentencing policy and penal practice, and public opinion and criminal justice.

Drawn from seven jurisdictions, the authors offer fresh insight into Roberts' past accomplishments as well as the future of the field that he continues to shape. Together, they demonstrate a collective commitment to advancing Roberts' lifelong project of normative, comparative, and empirical engagement with questions of crime and justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Manikis, Marie

Watson, Gabrielle

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword

- Editors' Introduction

- PART I. Fundamentals of Sentencing and Penal Theory

- 1: Andrew Ashworth: Culpability, Consequences, and Sentencing

- 2: RA Duff: 'Responsive Penal Censure' and Its Implications

- 3: Jesper Ryberg: How to Delimit the Desert Base of Criminal Offenders: On Roberts' Dynamic Censure Model

- 4: Marie Manikis: The Evolution of Proportionality in Sentencing: Strengthening Communication and Individualization

- 5: Netanel Dagan and David P Cole: Retributivism and the 'Black Boxes' of Imprisonment

- 6: Leo Zaibert: Pluralism in the Justification of Punishment

- 7: Gabrielle Watson: Sentencing Ethically

- PART II. Sentencing Policy and Penal Practice

- 8: David M Paciocco: Professor Roberts' Disproportionate Contribution to Proportionality

- 9: Anthony N Doob and Jane B Sprott: In Search of Proportionate Sentencing

- 10: Richard S Frase: Questioning the Fairness and Utility of Prior Record Sentence Enhancements

- 11: Antje du Bois-Pedain: Guiding Sentencers: The Value and Disvalue of Sentencing Guidelines

- 12: Kent Roach: When Is a Sentence a Miscarriage of Justice?

- 13: Arie Freiberg: Beyond the Dreaming Spires: Julian V Roberts as Scholar and Policy Entrepreneur

- PART III. Public Opinion and Criminal Justice

- 14: Mike Hough: Thirty-Five Years of Research on Attitudes to Punishment

- 15: Michael Tonry: Vigilantism and 'Public Confidence': The Pertinence of Public Opinion to Sentencing

- 16: Nicola Padfield: Victims at Parole

- Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Marie Manikis is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. She is also an advisor to the Sentencing Academy (England and Wales) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and the International Centre for Comparative Criminology. She completed her doctorate in law at the University of Oxford in 2014 and has published her work in leading peer-reviewed journals. She has won several awards for her scholarship and has been cited by various courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Gabrielle Watson is a legal scholar specializing in sentencing and criminal justice. She holds the Chancellor's Fellowship at Edinburgh Law School for excellence in interdisciplinary research and innovation and is the author of the award-winning Respect and Criminal Justice (OUP 2020). Gabrielle was formerly based at the University of Oxford, where she read for her doctorate and was subsequently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and at Christ Church and Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College. She is Advisor to the Sentencing Academy and in 2024 was appointed to the Criminal Courts Rules Council by the Lord Justice General of Scotland.