Lucrezia Rizzelli

Lucrezia Rizzelli is a Research Officer within the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) at the Centre for Criminology. She earned her Bachelor degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques at the University of Florence, specializing in social, organizational and work psychology. Then, she completed her MA in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, where she joined Professor Saul Kassin's false confessions laboratory and conducted research on the linguistic style of false confessions. Lucrezia volunteered at the Innocence Project, and was an investigative intern at the New York City Department of Investigation. In 2017, she received the award of "Best Psychology Student" of the year.  

Her doctoral thesis focused on criminal decision making amongst Indonesian drug offenders and its links to the state's punitive stance against narcotic crimes. This project was supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnernship (DTP) and Lincoln College's Kingsgate Scholarship. 

Currently, Lucrezia is working for the DPRU, analysing interviews conducted with drug offenders in Indonesia, both in the community and on death row.