Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law and a member of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. She is currently the General Editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series Clarendon Studies in Criminology. With Andrew Ashworth, Professor Zedner is currently co-directing a three-year study of Preventive Justice generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is also Conjoint Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where she is a regular visitor.Julian Roberts has been at Oxford since 2004. He works in the area of sentencing. His books include: Punishing Persistent Offenders; Principled Sentencing (with von Hirsch and Ashworth), and Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing. He currently holds a Leverhulme Major Fellowship for which he is conducting research upon the sentencing guidelines in England and Wales.

This book is replete with insight and useful analysis. The chapters are typically clear enough to be engaged with by more advanced students and their true value for the more advanced reader lies in clarifying difficult issues of theory and practice raised - but not resolved - in Ashworth's work.

• Andrew Ashworth: A Tribute ; Editors' Introduction ; PART 1. CRIMINAL LAW ; 1. Ashworth on Principles ; 2. Principles, Policies, and Politics of Criminal Law ; 3. Criminal Attempt, the Rule of Law, and Accountability in Criminal Law ; 4. Presuming Innocence ; 5. Fair Labelling and Social Solidarity ; 6. Distraction and Negligence ; 7. On Justifications and Excuses ; 8. Years of Provocation, Followed by a Loss of Control ; PART 2. CRIMINAL PROCESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ; 9. Positive Obligations and Criminal Justice: Duties to Protect or Coerce? ; 10. Exploring Entrapment ; 11. Excluding Evidence as Protecting Constitutional or Human Rights? ; 12. Community Sanctions and European Human Rights Law ; 13. A System of International Criminal Justice for Human Rights Violations: What is the General Justification for its Existence? ; PART 3. SENTENCING ; 14. Equality Before the Law and Equal Impact of Sanctions: Doing Justice to Differences in Wealth and Employment Status ; 15. Sentencing Women: Towards Gender Equality ; 16. Proportionate Sentencing and the Rule of Law ; 17. Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences Revisited ; 18. 'Wrongful' Acquittals and 'Unduly Lenient' Sentences - Misconceived Problems that Provoke Unjust Solutions

Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law and a member of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. She is currently the General Editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series Clarendon Studies in Criminology. With Andrew Ashworth, Professor Zedner is currently co-directing a three-year study of Preventive Justice generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is also Conjoint Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where she is a regular visitor.Julian Roberts has been at Oxford since 2004. He works in the area of sentencing. His books include: Punishing Persistent Offenders; Principled Sentencing (with von Hirsch and Ashworth), and Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing. He currently holds a Leverhulme Major Fellowship for which he is conducting research upon the sentencing guidelines in England and Wales.

This book is replete with insight and useful analysis. The chapters are typically clear enough to be engaged with by more advanced students and their true value for the more advanced reader lies in clarifying difficult issues of theory and practice raised - but not resolved - in Ashworth's work.

• Andrew Ashworth: A Tribute ; Editors' Introduction ; PART 1. CRIMINAL LAW ; 1. Ashworth on Principles ; 2. Principles, Policies, and Politics of Criminal Law ; 3. Criminal Attempt, the Rule of Law, and Accountability in Criminal Law ; 4. Presuming Innocence ; 5. Fair Labelling and Social Solidarity ; 6. Distraction and Negligence ; 7. On Justifications and Excuses ; 8. Years of Provocation, Followed by a Loss of Control ; PART 2. CRIMINAL PROCESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ; 9. Positive Obligations and Criminal Justice: Duties to Protect or Coerce? ; 10. Exploring Entrapment ; 11. Excluding Evidence as Protecting Constitutional or Human Rights? ; 12. Community Sanctions and European Human Rights Law ; 13. A System of International Criminal Justice for Human Rights Violations: What is the General Justification for its Existence? ; PART 3. SENTENCING ; 14. Equality Before the Law and Equal Impact of Sanctions: Doing Justice to Differences in Wealth and Employment Status ; 15. Sentencing Women: Towards Gender Equality ; 16. Proportionate Sentencing and the Rule of Law ; 17. Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences Revisited ; 18. 'Wrongful' Acquittals and 'Unduly Lenient' Sentences - Misconceived Problems that Provoke Unjust Solutions