DPRU Publications
Books
Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle, The Death Penalty Worldwide (5th ed, OUP 2015).
Death Penalty Project (DPP) publications
Carolyn Hoyle, Dealing with Punishment: Risks and Rewards in Indonesia's Illicit Drug Trade (The Death Penalty Project 2023).
Carolyn Hoyle and Lucrezia Rizzelli, Living with a Death Sentence in Kenya: Prisoners' Experiences of Crime, Punishment and Death Row (The Death Penalty Project 2023).
Carolyn Hoyle and Lucy Harry, The Death Penalty in Kenya: A Punishment that has Died Out in Practice, Part Two - Overwhelming Support for Abolition Among Opinion Leaders (The Death Penalty Project 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle, The Death Penalty in Kenya: A Punishment that has Died Out in Practice, Part One - A Public Ready to Accept Abolition (The Death Penalty Project 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle and Shiow-duan Hawang, Legislators' Opinions on the Death Penalty in Taiwan (The Death Penalty Project 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle, Investigating Attitudes to the Death Penalty in Indonesia, Part Two - Public Opinion: No Barrier to Abolition (The Death Penalty Project 2021).
Carolyn Hoyle, Investigating Attitudes to the Death Penalty in Indonesia, Part One - Opinion Formers: An Appetite for Change (The Death Penalty Project 2021).
Carolyn Hoyle, Time to abolish the death penalty in Zimbabwe: Exploring the views of its opinion leaders (The Death Penalty Project 2020).
Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal, Sentenced to death without execution: Why capital punishment has not yet been abolished in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados (The Death Penalty Project 2020).
Carolyn Hoyle, The Feasibility of Conducting Research on Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty in Indonesia (The Death Penalty Project 2019).
Carolyn Hoyle, Unsafe convictions in capital cases in Taiwan (The Death Penalty Project 2019).
Book chapters
Lucy Harry, ‘Perpetrators and/or Victims? The Case of Women Facing the Death Penalty in Malaysia’ (2022).
Roger Hood, ‘The enigma of de facto abolition of capital punishment’ (2021).
Carolyn Hoyle, ‘Capital punishment at the intersections of discrimination and disadvantage: the plight of foreign nationals’ (2019).
Academic articles
Jonathan Hasson and Carolyn Hoyle, 'Thai drug offenses and narcotic charges: Tracing Thailand’s drug control and capital punishment history' (2024) 49 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 361.
Carolyn Hoyle and Lucy Harry, ‘Diversion or death? The moral framework shaping bifurcated punishments for drug offences in Indonesia’ (2024) Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.
Carolyn Hoyle and Jocelyn Hutton, 'National sovereignty versus human rights: Drugs and the mandatory death penalty in Singapore' (2024) Amicus Journal.
Lucy Harry, Carolyn Hoyle and Jocelyn Hutton, ‘Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf’ (2024) Punishment & Society.
Carolyn Hoyle, Jocelyn Hutton and Lucy Harry, ‘A Disproportionate Risk of Being Executed: Why Pakistani Migrants Are Vulnerable to Capital Punishment in Saudi Arabia’ (2023) British Journal of Criminology.
Lucy Harry, ‘Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Crime and Economic Factors: The Case-Study of Women Sentenced to Death for Drug Trafficking in Malaysia’ (2021) Laws.
Carolyn Hoyle and Lucy Harry, ‘Compounded vulnerability: foreign national women and the death penalty in Southeast Asia’ (2020) Amicus Journal.
Carolyn Hoyle and Saul Lehrfreund, ‘Contradictions in judicial support for capital punishment in India and Bangladesh: Utilitarian rationales’ (2019) Asian Journal of Criminology.
The Conversation articles
Carolyn Hoyle and Saul Lehrfreund, ‘It’s time for Ghana to enshrine its respect for the right to life – by abolishing the death penalty’ (July 2023).
Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar, ‘Kenyan prisoners on death row weren’t deterred by the threat of the death penalty: new research findings’ (January 2023).
Jocelyn Hutton, Carolyn Hoyle and Lucy Harry, ‘Qatar’s death row and the invisible migrant workforce deemed unworthy of due process’ (November 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle, Lucy Harry and Parvais Jabbar, ‘Why has Kenya not abolished the death penalty? Habit and inertia’ (September 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar, ‘Indonesians’ support for the death penalty declines with more rigorous survey methods’ (October 2021).
Blog posts by DPRU staff and students
Jackson Foster, 'Researching the enigma of de facto abolition: Notes on Kenya and Belize' (July 2024).
Carolyn Hoyle, 'The DPRU honours Robert Badinter (1928-2024)' (February 2024).
Daniel Cullen, ‘The enigma of de facto abolition: Researching the death penalty in countries which do not execute’ (October 2023).
Aimee Clesi, ‘Rallying lawmakers in the American South: An investigation of Virginia’s path to abolition’ (October 2023).
Amanda Clift-Matthews, ‘‘We don’t execute’: The neglected reality of condemned prisoners in ADF countries’ (October 2023).
Lucrezia Rizzelli, ‘Artistic Resilience: Living on Death Row’ (September 2023).
Jocelyn Hutton, ‘Mapping foreign nationals on death row in Asia and the Middle East: A new database for researchers’ (August 2023)
Carolyn Hoyle, ‘Crude opinion polls on the death penalty distort public debate’ (August 2023).
Carolyn Hoyle and Saul Lehrfreund, ‘Closing death row: The road to abolition in Ghana’ (July 2023).
Lucy Harry, ‘DPRU Q&As: Dr Lucy Harry, DPRU Postdoctoral Researcher’ (July 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar, ‘The Death Penalty in Kenya: A punishment that has died out in practice’ (June 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle and Saul Lehrfreund, ‘Legislators in Taiwan could push for abolition’ (February 2022).
The Death Penalty Project (DPP) and the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), ‘Joint Statement: Why Malaysia should abolish the mandatory death penalty as a prelude to ending capital punishment’ (February 2022).
Amanda Clift-Matthews, ‘Singapore to resume executions amid heightened international scrutiny’ (February 2022).
Carolyn Hoyle and Saul Lehrfreund, ‘Opposition to capital punishment among opinion formers in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados’ (December 2021).
Daniel Cullen, ‘Foreign nationals facing the death penalty: the role of consular assistance’ (November 2021).
Jocelyn Hutton and Emma Rice, ‘The plight of domestic workers on death row in the Middle East’ (October 2021).
Lucy Harry, ‘Why take a gender-based approach to the death penalty for drug trafficking?’ (October 2021).
Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar, ‘No barrier to abolition: Analysing attitudes to the death penalty in Indonesia’ (June 2021).
Jocelyn Hutton and Daniel Cullen, ‘Mapping migrant workers on death row in Saudi Arabia’ (May 2021).
Amelia Inglis, ‘COVID-19 and the Death Row Population of the United States’ (May 2021).
Daniel Cullen, ‘The death penalty in post-coup Myanmar: a tool for repression’ (April 2021).