I'll try to use this page to keep a list of things as they come out for around six months before moving them to the Publications List page.

Michael Tonry (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice. I have a chapter in this (otherwise!) excellent collection entitled "Reassurance, Reinforcement, and Legitimacy". It is by some distance the most sociological piece I have done. The chapter addresses the ways in which the criminal law shapes the behaviour of citizens other than by threat of punishment. Along the way, I consider Durkheim, German and Swedish "moral educative" theorists, Tom Tyler, and David Garland.

Another Tonry volume should be hitting the shelves this month. Retributivism Has a Past: has it a future? deals with the rise (and decline?) of retributivism. My piece, for what it is worth, argues that the rise of retributivism was never a rise in desert theory, but only in the idea of proportionality. In arguing this, I consider the rise of retributivism in the context of the rise of Rawlsian neo-Kantianism (which was certainly not about desert). "The punishment must fit the crime" is, I think and argue, a dangerous and misleading phrase, which elides the notions of desert and proportionality. (I have to say that I like this piece.)