Roger Hood

Research Associate, formerly Professor of Criminology and Fellow of All Souls College, and former Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, All Souls College

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School in 1980-82, 1984-90, and from 2005-2011, and Adjunct Professor at City University Hong Kong from 2008 2011 where he taught an intensive short course on international perspectives on the death penalty. In 1986 he received the Sellin-Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for 'Distinguished Contributions to Criminology'; in 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy; and in 1995 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 'for services to the study of criminology'; and in 2000 he was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel. He was sub-Warden of All Souls College from 1994-96, and was College Steward from 1993-2003. From October 2003 to May 2004 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. In 2003, a Festschrift entitled The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy (edited by Lucia Zedner and Andrew Ashworth) was published by Oxford University Press to mark his retirement. He was awarded an Honorary Ll.D by the University of Birmingham in 2008 and by Edinburgh Napier University in 2011. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in 2012 the European Society of Criminology Award ?for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist?

Since his retirement in 2003 he has lectured on the death penalty in China, Hong Kong, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, USA, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Trinidad, and Uganda.

His research has had four main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the history of the emergence of penal policy. The fourth edition of his book The Death Penalty: a Worldwide Perspective (with Carolyn Hoyle) was published by Oxford University Press in April 2008 and has since been translated into Chinese and Persian.

He is currently undertaking a public opinion survey on the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia on behalf of the London-based Death Penalty Project.