Julian Roberts

Julian V. Roberts, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and Executive Director of the Sentencing Academy. In 2023 he was appointed Kings Counsel (Honoris Causa). In 2021 he was awarded the American Society of Criminology Sellin-Glueck Award for comparative scholarship.

Recent books include: Sentencing Guidance and Sentencing Commissions Comparative Perspectives. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025); Sentencing in Canada (with D. Cole, Toronto: Irwin Law, 2020); Paying for the Past: Prior Record Enhancements in the US Sentencing Guidelines (with R. Frase, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019); Popular Punishment (Oxford Oxford University Press, 2014); The Role of Previous Convictions at Sentencing (OxfordHart, 2010); Principled Sentencing (with von Hirsch and Ashworth; Hart, 2009); Punishing Persistent Offenders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); and The Virtual Prison (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2004).