Centre Mission

The Centre for Penal Theory and Ethics brings together leading scholars to explore central issues surrounding punishment and its justification. To this end, the Centre runs workshops and conferences, disseminating the outcomes of its work in a variety of venues, including the Centre’s own book series with Hart/Bloomsbury. Relatedly, the Centre seeks to contribute to the progress of young researchers and PhD students working in these areas. The Centre is alive to the value of interdisciplinary and of comparative approaches. In its efforts to advance our understanding of punishment and its justifications, the Centre thus seeks dialogue with the best thinking in many different fields and in many different jurisdictions and intellectual traditions.