Carolyn Hoyle
Faculty officer role(s):
Chair of Examiners: MSc in Criminology
Chair of Admissions (Criminology)
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 team at the Death Penalty Research Unit and 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.
Featured Publications
Publications
Hoyle C, Hutton J and Harry L, “A Disproportionate Risk of Being Executed: Why Pakistani Migrants Are Vulnerable to Capital Punishment in Saudi Arabia” [2023] British Journal of Criminology
Hoyle C, “The Challenges for England’s Post-Conviction Review Body: Deference to Juries, the Principle of Finality and the Court of Appeal” (2021) 4 Erasmus Law Review 33
Hoyle C and Harry L, “Compounded Vulnerability: Foreign National Women and the Death Penalty in Southeast Asia” [2020] Amicus Journal 15
Hoyle C, “Book Review: Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice” (2020) 37 Nordic Journal of Human Rights 353
Hoyle C, “The Shifting Landscape of Post-Conviction Review in New Zealand: Reflections on the Prospects for the Criminal Cases Review Commission” (2020) 32 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 208
Hoyle C and Tilt L, “Not Innocent Enough: State Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice in England and Wales” (2019) 2020 Criminal Law Review 29
Hoyle C and Lehrfreund S, “Contradictions in Judicial Support for Capital Punishment in India and Bangladesh: Utilitarian Rationales” (2019) 15 Asian Journal of Criminology 141
Willis R and Hoyle C, “The Good, The Bad, and The Street: Does ‘street culture’ Affect Offender Communication and Reception in Restorative Justice?” (2019) 19 European Journal of Criminology 118
Hoyle C, “Forensic Science and Expert Testimony in Wrongful Convictions: A Study of Decision-Making at the Criminal Cases Review Commission” (2018) 59 British Journal of Criminology 919
Hoyle C and Tilt L, “The Benefits of Social Capital for the Wrongfully Convicted: Considering the Promise of a Resettlement Model” (2018) 57 Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 495
Hoyle C and Batchelor D, “Making Room for Procedural Justice in Restorative Justice Theory” (2018) 1 International Journal of Restorative Justice 175
Hoyle C, “Book Review: The American Death Penalty: A Flawed Institution” (2018) 89 Political Quarterly 517
Burnett R, Hoyle C and Speechley N-E, “The Context and Impact of Being Wrongly Accused of Abuse in Occupations of Trust” (2017) 56 Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 176
Sato M, Hoyle C and Speechley N-E, “Wrongful Convictions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers by the Criminal Cases Review Commission” (2017) 2017 Criminal Law Review 106
Hoyle C and Rosenblatt F, “Looking Back to the Future: Threats to the Success of Restorative Justice in the United Kingdom” (2015) 11 Victims and Offenders 30
Hoyle C and Hood R, “Progress Made for Worldwide Abolishment of Death Penalty” [2015] International Affairs Forum
Hoyle C and Ullrich L, “New Court, New justice?: The Evolution of ‘justice for victims’ at Domestic Courts and at the International Criminal Court” (2014) 12 Journal of International Criminal Justice 681
Hoyle C, “Thinking about Death Penalty Abolitionist Reform: Lessons from Abroad and Options for China” (2014) 2 China Legal Science 121
Hoyle C and Palmer N, “Family Justice Centres: A Model for Empowerment?” (2014) 20 International Review of Victimology 191
Hoyle C, “Book Review: Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition” (2012) 12 Criminology and Criminal Justice 335
Walters M and Hoyle C, “Exploring the Everyday World of Hate Victimization through Community Mediation” (2012) 18 International Review of Victimology 7
Dempsey M, Hoyle C and Bosworth M, “Defining Sex Trafficking in International and Domestic Law: Mind the Gaps” (2012) 26 Emory International Law Review
Bosworth M, Hoyle C and Dempsey M, “Researching Trafficked Women: On Institutional Resistance and the Limits to Feminist Reflexivity” (2011) 17 QUALITATIVE INQUIRY 769
Hoyle C, Bosworth M and Dempsey M, “Labelling the Victims of Sex Trafficking: Exploring the Borderland Between Rhetoric and Reality” (2011) 20 SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES 313
Hood R and Hoyle C, “Abolishing the Death Penalty Worldwide: The Impact of a ‘New Dynamic’” (2009) 38 CRIME AND JUSTICE: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH, VOL 38 1
Hoyle C, “Will She Be Safe? A Critical Analysis of Risk Assessment in Domestic Violence Cases” (2008) 30 CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW 323
Young R, Hoyle C, Cooper K and Hill R, “Informal Resolution of Complaints Against the Police: A Quasi-Experimental Test of Restorative Justice” (2005) 5 Criminal Justice 279
Hoyle C and Rose D, “Labour, Law and Order” (2001) 72 POLITICAL QUARTERLY 76
Young R and Hoyle C, “Examining the Guts of Restorative Justice” (2000) 40 Criminal Justice Matters 29
Hoyle C, “Police Response to Domestic Violence” (2000) 40 British Journal of Criminology 14
Hoyle C and Sanders A, “Police Response to Domestic Violence - From Victim Choice to Victim Empowerment?” (2000) 40 BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY 14
HOYLE C, Wilcox A and Young R, “Are Randomised Controlled Trials Really the ‘Gold Standard’ in Restorative Justice Research?” British Journal of Community Justice
HOYLE C, “Restorative Justice Policing in Thames Valle” Journal of Police Studies
HOYLE C and Noguera S, “Supporting Young Offenders Through Restorative Justice: Parents As (In)Appropriate Adults” British Journal of Community Justice
“The Context and Impact of Being Wrongly Accused of Abuse in Occupations of Trust” (2017) 56 Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 176
HOYLE C, Sanders A and Morgan R, “’Victim Impact Statements: Don’t Work, Can’t Work” Criminal Law Review -London-
HOYLE C, “’Restorative Justice in the Thames Valley: Changes in the Complaints and Discipline Process” Prison Service Journal
HOYLE C, Young R and Preston N, “’Restoring the Faith’” Police Review
“Contradictions in Judicial Support for Capital Punishment in India and Bangladesh: Utilitarian Rationales” (2019) 15 Asian Journal of Criminology 141
HOYLE C and Sato M, Reasons to Doubt (Oxford University Press 2019)
Bosworth M, Loader I, Zedner L, Hoyle C, Farrall S, Bradford B, Robinson G, Parmar A, Aliverti A, Young R, Ashworth A, Roberts J, Peay J, O’Donnell I, Hood R, Pascoe D, Shapland J, Dempsey M, Condry R and Miles C, Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (M Bosworth, C Hoyle and L Zedner eds., Oxford University Press 2016)
Hood R and Hoyle C, The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (2012) 1
Bosworth M and Hoyle C, What Is Criminology? (2011) 1
Cunneen C and Hoyle C, Debating Restorative Justice (2010)
Hoyle C, Negotiating Domestic Violence Police, Criminal Justice and Victims (Oxford University Press 2000)
Hoyle C, “Capital Punishment at the Intersections of Discrimination and Disadvantage: The Plight of Foreign Nationals” in C Steiker and J Steiker (eds.), Comparative Capital Punishment (Edward Elgar Publishing 2019)
Hood R and Hoyle C, “Towards the Global Elimination of the Death Penalty: A Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment”, Alternative Criminologies (2017)
Hoyle C, “Victims of the State: Recognizing the Harms Caused by Wrongful Convictions” in M Bosworth, C Hoyle and L Zedner (eds.), Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 2016)
HOYLE C and WILLIS R, “The Challenge of Integrating Restorative Justice into the "Deep-End” in T Blomberg, J Mestre Brancale, K Beaver and W Bales (eds.), Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy (Routledge 2016)
HOYLE C, “Compensating Injustice: The Perils of the Innocence Discourse” in S Young, J Hunter and P Roberts (eds.), The Integrity of Criminal Process: From Theory into Practice (Hart Publishing 2016)
HOYLE C, “Victims of Wrongful Conviction in Retentionist Nations”, Death Penalty and Victims (2016)
Walters M and Hoyle C, “Healing Harms and Engendering Tolerance: The Promise of Restorative Justice for Hate Crime” (2014)
HOYLE C and Hood R, “’Deterrence and Public Opinion’”, Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Arguments, Trends and Perspectives (United Nations 2014)
Hoyle C, “Policing and Restorative Justice”, Handbook of Restorative Justice (2013)
HOYLE C, “’Victims, Victimisation and Criminal Justice’” in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2012)
Hoyle C and Bosworth M, “Mapping the Borders of Criminology: Concluding Thoughts”, What is Criminology? (2011)
Bosworth M and Hoyle C, “What Is Criminology? An Introduction” (2011)
HOYLE C, “Can International Justice Be Restorative Justice?: The Role of Reparations’” in N Palmer, D Granville and P Clark (eds.), Critical Perspectives in Transitional Justice (Intersentia Press 2011)
HOYLE C, “Empowerment through Emotion: The Use and Abuse of Victim Impact Evidence’” in E Erez, M Kilchling and J Wemmers (eds.), Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Victim Participation in Justice: International Perspectives (Carolina Academic Press 2011)
HOYLE C and Young R, “New Improved Restorative Justice?: Action-Research and the Thames Valley Initiative in Restorative Cautioning”, Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Complementary Paradigms? (2003)
HOYLE C and Young R, “Restorative Justice: Assessing the Prospects and Pitfalls” in M McConville and G Wilson (eds.), The Handbook of the Criminal Justice Process (Oxford University press 2002)
HOYLE C, “Securing Restorative Justice for the Non-Participating Victims” in C HOYLE and R Young (eds.), New Visions of Crime Victims (Hart publishing 2002)
HOYLE C, “Being a Nosy Bloody Cow: Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Domestic violence’”, Doing Research on Crime and Justice
HOYLE C and Young R, “Restorative Justice and Punishment”, The Use of Punishment
HOYLE C and ZEDNER L, “’Victims, Victimisation and Criminal Justice’”, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
HOYLE C, “Feminism, Victimology and Domestic Violence’”, The Handbook of Victims and Victimology
HOYLE C, “’Restorative Justice, Victims and the Police’”, Handbook of Policing
HOYLE C (ed.), Restorative Justice (Routledge 2009)
Young R, New Visions of Crime Victims (C HOYLE ed., Hart publishing 2002)
Hoyle C, “The Feasibility of Conducting Research on Attitudes towards the Death Penalty in Indonesia” (Death Penalty Project 2019)
Hoyle C, “Unsafe Convictions in Capital Cases in Taiwan” (Death Penalty Project 2019)