Role
Ralph was Professor of Criminal Justice from 1998-2015. He is now Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice in the Law School and retains a role as Research Fellow.
Research areas
Ralph is a member of the Centre for Rights and Justice. He has recently completed a monograph on Sentencing Policy and Social Justice for Oxford University Press and is currently engaged in collaborative work on the sentencing of women with Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe of Cambridge University.
External activity
Ralph is joint editor of Routledge's International and Comparative Criminal Justice series and an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Sydney, EUI Florence, Sussex, and Washington and Lee, USA and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
Sponsors and collaborators
Ralph's research has received funding from The British Academy, The Nuffield Foundation, The University of Sydney, and NTU.
Publications
Recent publications include:
- Punishment and Process in International Criminal Trials (2005)
- Transforming International Criminal Justice: retributive and restorative justice in the trial process (2005) and Beyond Punishment: Achieving International Criminal Justice (2010) (with Mark Findlay)
- Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice (2011)
- Sentencing: Time for a Paradigm Shift (2013)
- Sentencing Policy and Social Justice (2018)