In Search of Criminal Responsibility

Arlie Loughnan, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Nicola Lacey is a leading scholar of criminal responsibility, and a pioneer of the "critical" work on criminal responsibility that has emerged in the last few years. Lacey's analysis of criminal responsibility has been developed in a body of work undertaken over several years, and culminates in her monograph, In Search of Criminal Responsibility, which is an elegant synthesis and instructive further extension of Lacey's distinctive intervention into the
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Ngaire Naffine, Sydney Law Review Nicola Lacey [is one] of the most respected and influential scholars of criminal law in the Anglosphere...In Lacey's rendition of the making of modern criminal law and justice, and its changing ideas of responsibility, we learn about the role of an emerging legal profession, the development of a modern police force, the centralisation and professionalisation of the courts and the growth of criminal legislation.

Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. From 2010 until September 2013 she was Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford. She has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at Harvard Law School and at New York University Law School. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford, an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is an elected member of the Council of Liberty, and served as a member of the British Academy's Policy Group on Prisons, which reported in 2014. In 2011, she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern, for scholarship on the rule of law in modern societies.

1: In Search of Criminal Responsibility 2: Ideas 3: Interests 4: Institutions 5: Explaining the Shifting Alignment of Ideas of Responsibility in the Vortex of Interests and Institutions: Towards a Political Economy of Responsibility in English Criminal Law 6: Implications for Legal Theory and Legal Scholarship