Roger Hood Public Lecture: ‘Criminal Justice in the Service of Security.’

The history of criminal justice is beset by the tension between state coercion in the name of public safety and protecting the individual from unwarranted state power. This lecture by Professor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford, explores this tension as it has played out in the practices and concrete institutions of criminal justice, and in the principles and values that inform them, during a period in which the pursuit of security has gained ever greater salience.