Marie Manikis is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. She is also an advisor to the Sentencing Academy (England and Wales) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and the International Centre for Comparative Criminology. She completed her doctorate in law at the University of Oxford in 2014 and has published her work in leading peer-reviewed journals. She has won several awards for her scholarship and has been cited by various courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.Gabrielle Watson is a legal scholar specializing in sentencing and criminal justice. She holds the Chancellor's Fellowship at Edinburgh Law School for excellence in interdisciplinary research and innovation and is the author of the award-winning Respect and Criminal Justice (OUP 2020). Gabrielle was formerly based at the University of Oxford, where she read for her doctorate and was subsequently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and at Christ Church and Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College. She is Advisor to the Sentencing Academy and in 2024 was appointed to the Criminal Courts Rules Council by the Lord Justice General of Scotland.

• the Rt Hon Sir Colman Treacy: Foreword Gabrielle Watson and Marie Manikis: Editors' Introduction PART I. Fundamentals of Sentencing and Penal Theory 1: Andrew Ashworth: Culpability, Consequences, and Sentencing 2: RA Duff: 'Responsive Penal Censure' and Its Implications 3: Jesper Ryberg: How to Delimit the Desert Base of Criminal Offenders: On Roberts' Dynamic Censure Model 4: Marie Manikis: The Evolution of Proportionality in Sentencing: Strengthening Communication and Individualization 5: Netanel Dagan and David P Cole: Retributivism and the 'Black Boxes' of Imprisonment 6: Leo Zaibert: Pluralism in the Justification of Punishment 7: Gabrielle Watson: Sentencing Ethically PART II. Sentencing Policy and Penal Practice 8: David M Paciocco: Professor Roberts' Disproportionate Contribution to Proportionality 9: Anthony N Doob and Jane B Sprott: In Search of Proportionate Sentencing 10: Richard S Frase: Questioning the Fairness and Utility of Prior Record Sentence Enhancements 11: Antje du Bois-Pedain: Guiding Sentencers: The Value and Disvalue of Sentencing Guidelines 12: Kent Roach: When Is a Sentence a Miscarriage of Justice? 13: Arie Freiberg: Beyond the Dreaming Spires: Julian V Roberts as Scholar and Policy Entrepreneur PART III. Public Opinion and Criminal Justice 14: Mike Hough: Thirty-Five Years of Research on Attitudes to Punishment 15: Michael Tonry: Vigilantism and 'Public Confidence': The Pertinence of Public Opinion to Sentencing 16: Nicola Padfield: Victims at Parole Lucia Zedner: Afterword

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