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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 has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including domestic violence, policing, restorative justice, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. She teaches courses on the MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice on: 'Restorative Justice'; 'The Death Penalty'; 'Victims', and 'Academic Communication Skills'. She also lectures on Victims and Restorative Justice on the FHS Law degree and supervises DPhil, MPhil and MSc students on these and other criminological topics. She has recently concluded research into applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission concerning alleged miscarriages of justice. Her book on this research 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 studies of foreign nationals at risk of capital punishment in Malaysia, funded by the British Academy and the University of Oxford John Fell Fund, and carrying out various projects on the death penalty in Indonesia and Zimbabwe with The Death Penalty Project.
Publications
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C Hoyle, '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) (forthcoming) -
C Hoyle, 'Forensic Science and Expert Testimony in Wrongful Convictions: A study of decision-making at the Criminal Cases Review Commission' (2019) British Journal of Criminology (forthcoming) -
C Hoyle and Mai Sato, Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press 2019) -
C Hoyle and Diane Batchelor, 'Making room for procedural justice in restorative justice theory’, The International Journal of Restorative Justice' (2018) 1 The International Journal of Restorative Justice 175 -
C Hoyle, 'The American Death Penalty: A flawed institution: Review of Deadly Justice by Baumgartner et al.' (2018) Political Quarterly [Review] -
C Hoyle and Laura Tilt, 'The Benefits of Social Capital for the Wrongfully Convicted: Considering the promise of a resettlement model' (2018) 57 The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 495 -
Roger Hood and C Hoyle, 'Towards the Global Elimination of the Death Penalty: a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment ' in Pat Carlen, Leandro Ayres Franca (ed), Alternative Criminologies (Routledge 2018) -
Ros Burnett, C Hoyle and Naomi-Ellen Speechley, 'The Context and Impact of Being Wrongly Accused of Abuse in Occupations of Trust' (2017) 56 The Howard Journal 176 In recent years, there has been rising concern that allegations of sexual abuse, particularly non-recent abuse, have not received an appropriate response. From this has emerged a new determination to correct past and prevent further injustices, with police operations focusing considerable resources on the identification and prosecution of child abusers. Police and other services have reached out to encourage reporting, and developments in the trial process related to the rules of evidence have eroded due process protections for suspects. This article considers this changed legal and social context, and the processes entailed in responding to allegations of abuse, before presenting original empirical data, gathered from the accounts of 30 men and women who were wrongly accused of abuse related to their employment in occupations of trust. It demonstrates the considerable and lasting harms done to those who face allegations of such heinous crimes.ISBN: 2059-1098Mai Sato, C Hoyle and Naomi-Ellen Speechley, 'Wrongful Convictions of Refugee and Asylum Seekers: Responses by the Criminal Cases Review Commission' [2017] Criminal Law Review 106
Interests!
Her teaching interests are criminology, criminal justice and penology.
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Research Interests
Death Penalty, Wrongful Convictions, Criminal Justice, Criminology
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Criminology and Criminal JusticeNews articles for Carolyn Hoyle
'Reasons to Doubt : Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission' by Carolyn Hoyle and Mai Sato
Blog posts by Carolyn Hoyle
A Call for New Rigorous Empirical Research to Better Inform Drug Trafficking Policy in Indonesia
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyChange of Guard
By Carolyn Hoyle | Mary Bosworth
Centre for CriminologyAnnual Thames Valley Police-Oxford Criminology Seminar
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyHappy 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 CriminologyInformal Seminar Series: 'The Triumph of Mercy: Understanding the American death penalty decline'.
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyThe Gradual Erosion of the State’s Commitment to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyAmerican Law Students Help to Secure the Release of Malawian Prisoners
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyThere's No Evidence that the Death Penalty Acts as a Deterrent
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyRemembering Women Sentenced to Death
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyProgress Towards World-Wide Abolition of the Death Penalty
By Roger Hood | Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyThe Death Penalty in Japan
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyMandela and the Death Penalty
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyDeath Row in India
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyDelhi Death Sentences
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyCalifornia Holds onto the Death Penalty – But Only Just!
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyThe Costs of American Criminal Justice: California’s Fiscal Crisis Gives Hopes to Liberals
By Carolyn Hoyle
Centre for CriminologyResearch projects