Annual Roger Hood Lectures
An archive of recordings from the highly prestigious annual public lecture series, started to honour and celebrate the long and distinguished career of Professor Roger Hood and his particular contribution to Oxford Criminology.
Punishing the Innocent The Politics of Violence in Border Policing
Professor Didier Fassin,
Collège de France and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2025
Unsettling States: From Civilizing Security to Decolonizing Police in the Amero-Anglosphere, & Beyond
Associate Professor,
Beatrice Jauregui,
University of Toronto
2024
Re-centering the state: on drug trafficking, modern slavery and decolonial endeavours in austerity Britain
Professor Insa Koch
University of Sankt Gallen,
Switzerland
2023
The Pains of Racism in Criminal Justice and Criminology
Professor Coretta Phillips
London School of Economics and Political Science
2021
The People Strike Back? Life Imprisonment and Other Ultimate Penalties in a Constitutional Democracy
Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit
University of Nottingham
2020
(De)constructing the Crimmigrant Other: Migration, Citizenship and Penal Power
Katja Franko
University of Oslo
2019
Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the “Low End”, Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206
Vesla M. Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology,
Johns Hopkins University
2018
Thirty years on Death Row: When Reality Confronts Critical Theory
Professor Bernard Harcourt
Columbia Law School
2017
Older audio-only recordings
2016
‘Criminal Justice in the Service of Security’
Professor Lucia Zedner
University of Oxford
2015
'Prisons and the problem of trust: contrasting approaches to risk, radicalisation and personal growth in two high security prisons'
Professor Alison Liebling
University of Cambridge
2014
'Moving Targets - Reputational Risk, Rights and Accountability in Punishment'
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
University of Toronto
2013
'Why sentencing Matters'
Andrew Ashworth
University of Oxford
2011
‘Impact and Influence in Contemporary Criminology: The Question of Feminism’
Professor Frances Heidensohn
Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
2010
'Scandinavian Exceptionalism: Five Dangers Ahead'
Nils Christie
Institute of Criminology at the University of Oslo