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SUMMARY:Risk\, Security and Terrorism - Professor Lucia Zedner\, Universit
 y of Oxford
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Biography\n\nLucia Zedner is a Law Fellow at Corpus Christi Co
 llege\, Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law and a member o
 f the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. She wrote her do
 ctorate and held a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College\, Oxford befo
 re taking up a Law Lectureship at the London School of Economics when she 
 helped found and became Assistant Director of the Mannheim Centre for Crim
 inology and Criminal Justice. She returned to Oxford in 1994 becoming a Re
 ader in 1999 and Professor in 2005. She held a British Academy Research Re
 adership 2003-5 and has held visiting fellowships at universities in Germa
 ny\, Israel\, America\, and Australia. Since 2007 she has also held the po
 sition of Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of New S
 outh Wales\, Sydney where she is a regular visitor. \nLucia Zedner's resea
 rch interests span criminal justice\, criminal law\, and legal theory. Fro
 m her first book on the history of imprisonment\, she has gone on to write
  several books and many articles on criminal justice and penal policy\, mo
 st recently focussing on aspects of risk\, security and terrorism. Recent 
 books include Criminal Justice (2004)\, Crime and Security (co-edited with
  Ben Goold\, 2006) and Security (2009). With Oxford colleague\, Professor 
 Andrew Ashworth\, she has been awarded a major AHRC grant to work on ‘Pr
 eventive Justice’ a project that will explore the politics and prolifera
 ting policies of risk and prevention\; map changing patterns of criminaliz
 ation and pre-emptive state action\; consider their implications for civil
  liberties\; and ask how far the state may go to prevent harm. Its ultimat
 e aim is to develop principles and values to guide and limit states in the
 ir use of coercive preventive powers. \n\nAbstract\n\nSocial scientists te
 ll us we now live that we live in a ‘world risk society’. But what doe
 s this really mean and what\, if anything\, do environmental risks\, healt
 h risks\, and natural disasters have in common with those posed by terrori
 sm? When we move from the natural world to human threats are we still deal
 ing with hard science or are we in the realm of speculation? Are the presu
 mptions behind risk based counter-terrorism policies and the profiling of 
 terrorist suspects safe? \nTerrorist acts are exceptionally rare but they 
 pose the risk of catastrophic harm. No surprise then that we consent to in
 trusive measures that erode civil liberties in the name of avoiding such h
 arms. The conceit of ‘balancing’ liberty and security assumes that by 
 degrading liberty we can reduce risk. In place of balancing might we do be
 tter to ask what really is at risk in the war on terror? \nWe think of the
  risks posed by terrorism primarily in terms of subjective insecurity and 
 threat to life and property. But countering terrorism carries its own risk
 s – risks to social\, political\, and economic life and risks to rights 
 (rights to freedom of speech\, to privacy\, and to freedom of the person).
  Add to this the risk of marginalising and alienating those we target and 
 we are in danger of allowing responses to terrorism to generate a whole sl
 ew of new risks. So my question is what risks are at stake and how we migh
 t live with risk without living in terror.\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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