Lucia Zedner is a British criminologist and legal scholar, Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Her work spans criminology, criminal law, and socio-legal studies, with a particular focus on security, punishment, policing, and the preventive turn in criminal justice. Zedner is known for her interdisciplinary and critical approach, integrating legal theory, criminological analysis, and empirical research to examine how concepts like risk, security, and justice are constructed and contested.
Zedner has made influential contributions to understanding the shifting boundaries between crime control, risk management, and social governance. Her research critically interrogates the expansion of preventive justice, the securitization of everyday life, and the balance between liberty and security in modern democracies. Her book Security (2009) is considered a foundational text in critical security studies, offering a nuanced and normatively sensitive analysis of the concept of security in law, politics, and society.
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