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Biography
Professor Carolyn Hoyle has been at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991 and was Centre Director from 2012 - 2017. She is currently Director of Graduate Studies (Research) and Director of the Death Penalty Research Unit, based in the Centre.
She has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including domestic violence, policing, restorative justice, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. Her research into applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission concerning alleged miscarriages of justice was published by Oxford University Press in January 2019: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission
She is currently working on a range of research studies with The Death Penalty Project including a project to map foreign nationals at risk of capital punishment in Asia and the Middle East, studies on elite and public opinion on the death penalty in Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Taiwan, and deterrence research in Indonesia.
She teaches courses on the MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice on: 'Restorative Justice'; 'The Death Penalty'; 'Victims', and 'Academic Communication Skills' as well as running the DPhil programme. She supervises DPhil, MPhil and MSc students on her main areas of research, but is particularly keen to work with students focused on the death penalty.
Publications
Journal Article (33)
Chapter (24)
Review (2)
Book (5)
Edited Book (4)
Report (6)
Other (2)
Centres
Research programmes
- Death Penalty Research Unit
- Global Criminal Justice Hub
- Incarceration and the Wider World
- The Death Penalty
Research projects
- Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court: Developing Avenues for Collaboration
- Miscarriages of Justice
Research Interests
Death Penalty, Wrongful Convictions, Criminal Justice, Criminology
Options taught
Criminology and Criminal JusticeNews articles for Carolyn Hoyle

Launch of new report showing support for abolition of the death penalty among Zimbabwean opinion leaders

Lady Edwina Grosvenor donates three years of funding for the 'Death Penalty Research Unit''

'Reasons to Doubt : Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission' by Carolyn Hoyle and Mai Sato

Watch the workshop on 'Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court'

Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
Blog posts by Carolyn Hoyle

Welcome to the New Blog of the Death Penalty Research Unit
By Carolyn Hoyle
Death Penalty Research Unit
Announcing the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) at the Centre for Criminology
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
A Call for New Rigorous Empirical Research to Better Inform Drug Trafficking Policy in Indonesia
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Change of Guard
By Carolyn Hoyle | Mary Bosworth
Centre for Criminology
Annual Thames Valley Police-Oxford Criminology Seminar
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Happy Holidays from the Centre for Criminology
By Carolyn Hoyle | Mary Bosworth
Centre for Criminology
'Changing Contours of Criminal Justice'
By Mary Bosworth | Carolyn Hoyle | Lucia Zedner
Centre for Criminology
Informal Seminar Series: 'The Triumph of Mercy: Understanding the American death penalty decline'.
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
The Gradual Erosion of the State’s Commitment to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
American Law Students Help to Secure the Release of Malawian Prisoners
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
There's No Evidence that the Death Penalty Acts as a Deterrent
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Remembering Women Sentenced to Death
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Progress Towards World-Wide Abolition of the Death Penalty
By Roger Hood | Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
The Death Penalty in Japan
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Mandela and the Death Penalty
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Death Row in India
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
Delhi Death Sentences
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
California Holds onto the Death Penalty – But Only Just!
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology
The Costs of American Criminal Justice: California’s Fiscal Crisis Gives Hopes to Liberals
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for Criminology