Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit and Dr Catherine Appleton win the 2020 European Society of Criminology Book Award

The 2020 European Society of Criminology Book Award has been made to Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton for their book, Life Imprisonment: a Global Human Rights Analysis (Harvard 2019). It will be presented to them at the e-conference of the European Society of Criminology on 10 September 2020.

In making the award the jury emphasised the diverse scholarly perspectives and wide range of material covered by their research, which proceeds from a dynamic engagement with human rights. The jury concluded that Life Imprisonment would be recognised as “a classic book, a hallmark of twenty-first-century European criminology”.