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SUMMARY:The Game of Crime and Punishment - Mrs Nicky Padfield\, University
  of Cambridge
DTSTART:20160122T173000Z
DTEND:20160122T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nThe criminal justice process has often been compar
 ed to a ‘game’: the ‘games' lawyers play\, for example\, or the vari
 ous ‘games' played by prisoners or prison psychologists.  It is always o
 ther people who are playing games….   This lecture will explore current 
 trial processes and sentencing processes in England and Wales by comparing
  them to traditional games:  in what sense is a trial like a game of ‘bl
 ind man’s buff'? why does progressing through the prison system feel to 
 many prisoners like a game of 'snakes and ladders'?  Of course\, none of t
 hese processes really feel like a game to the principal players.  But the 
 analogies can throw fresh light on how we should evaluate the effectivenes
 s of our criminal justice system.\n\nBiography\n\nNicola Padfield is Maste
 r of Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge\, and a Reader in Criminal and Penal 
 Justice at the Law Faculty\, University of Cambridge\, where she has worke
 d for more than 20 years.  She has a broad research lens\, engaged in both
  ‘hard’ law and in socio-legal-criminological research.  She is a lead
 ing European expert on sentencing law\, including the law and practice of 
 release from (and recall to) prison.  A barrister by training\, she has pu
 blished widely on many aspects of criminal law\, sentencing and criminal j
 ustice.  She sat as a Recorder (part-time judge) in the Crown Court 2002-2
 014 and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.  
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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