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Nicky Padfield

Professor Nicky Padfield KC (Hon)

MA Dip Crim DES

  • Position Bye Fellow
  • School Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Law
  • Email nmp21@cam.ac.uk
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Nicola Padfield is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge and a Bye-Fellow at Ã÷ÐǺÚÁÏ.

Nicky Padfield

After her first degree at St Anne's College, Oxford she came to Cambridge (Darwin College) to study for the Diploma in Criminology. Called to the Bar in 1978, she then spent a year at the University of Aix-Marseille. Her teaching and research have covered a broad canvas in criminal law and evidence, sentencing and criminal justice more generally. She sat as a Recorder (part-time judge) in the Crown Court from 2002-2014, is a Bencher of the Middle Temple and served as the University Advocate for several years. She was appointed as Honorary Queen's Counsel in 2018.

 

Her books include ‘The Criminal Justice Process: Text and Materials’ (5th edition, 2016); ‘Criminal Law’ (10th edition, 2016), and ‘Beyond the Tariff: Human rights and the release of life sentence prisoners’ (2002). She has edited and contributed to several more recent collections of essays on parole and early release (which have involved research in many European countries). Whilst maintaining a wide academic lens, her recent research has explored how the law on release from, and recall to, prison works in practice, and how it is perceived by offenders and those who work in the system. This under-researched area provides an important contribution to the understanding of how offenders are best supported in their attempts to desist from criminal lifestyles, and how the rehabilitation and resettlement of offenders can be better encouraged. She is also working on a project measuring the effectiveness of coroners’ inquests in reducing the number of deaths of people in custody and under probation supervision.

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