British Academy publishes Biographical Memoir of Professor Roger Hood (1936-2020)

On 29 September, the British Academy published an official Biographical Memoir of the late Professor Roger Hood (1936-2020), as part of its Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. Professor Hood was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992. 

The Biographical Memoir was authored by Professor Sir Tony Bottoms, Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield, and Professor Carolyn Hoyle, Director of the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU). 

The memoir reflects on Professor Hood's significant intellectual contributions to the discipline of criminology through his role in the early development of criminological scholarship in the UK and as a world-leading scholar on all aspects of the use of the death penalty internationally, as well as his considerable contributions to life at All Souls College, Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Criminology.  

The DPRU’s ambitions are unambiguously based on the work and approach that Professor Hood developed in collaboration with the Death Penalty Project (DPP). Its purpose is not only to elucidate capital punishment laws and practices, but to challenge them, with the explicit aim of abolition or, failing that, progressive restriction, and stands as a fitting legacy of Roger’s groundbreaking work in this field.

Professor Hood's Biographical Memoir can be read here.