Catherine Appleton is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on ‘ultimate penalties’ and the question of how societies respond to their most serious crimes. Her first monograph, published by Oxford University Press in 2010, examined Life after Life Imprisonment for a group of released life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales, and was awarded the 2011 British Society of Criminology Book Prize. Her most recent article, “Life without Parole”, published by Oxford Handbooks Online, assesses the extent to which whole life imprisonment is compatible with international human right standards. She is currently engaged on a research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examining life imprisonment worldwide. |Catherine Appleton is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on ‘ultimate penalties’ and the question of how societies respond to their most serious crimes. Her first monograph, published by Oxford University Press in 2010, examined Life after Life Imprisonment for a group of released life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales, and was awarded the 2011 British Society of Criminology Book Prize. Her most recent article, “Life without Parole”, published by Oxford Handbooks Online, assesses the extent to which whole life imprisonment is compatible with international human right standards. She is currently engaged on a research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examining life imprisonment worldwide.