Carolyn Hoyle
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 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 research on deterrence and the death penalty for drugs in Indonesia, a project 'mapping' death row for drug offences in Southeast Asia, and research on abolitionist de facto states in Africa and the Caribbean. Her work with The Death Penalty Project in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Taiwan continues.
She teaches courses on the MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice on: 'Victims and Restorative Justice'; 'The Death Penalty'; and 'Academic Communication Skills' . 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
HOYLE C and Hutton J, ‘National Sovereignty versus Universal Human Rights: drugs and the mandatory death penalty in Singapore’ [2024] Amicus Journal
HOYLE C, HARRY L and Hutton J, ‘Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf’ [2023] Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology
Hoyle C, ‘Review of wrongful convictions following police misconduct: A study of the English Criminal Cases Review Commission
’ (2023) 106(3) Monatsschrift für Kriminologie Und Strafrechtsreform 214
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] Erasmus Law Review
HOYLE C and Harry L, ‘Compounded vulnerability: foreign national women and the death penalty in Southeast Asia’ [2020] Amicus
Hoyle C, ‘Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice’ (2020) 37(4) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 353
HOYLE C, ‘The Shifting Landscape of Post-Conviction Review in New Zealand: reflections on the prospects for a Criminal Cases Review Commission’ [2020] Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Hoyle C, ‘The Challenges for England’s Post-Conviction Review Body: Deference to Juries, the Principle of Finality and the Court of Appeal’ (2020) 13(4) Erasmus Law Review 33
HOYLE C and Tilt L, ‘Not innocent enough: State compensation for miscarriages of justice in England and Wales’ [2019] Criminal Law Review
HOYLE C and Lehrfreund S, ‘CONTRADICTIONS IN JUDICIAL SUPPORT FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH: UTILITARIAN RATIONALES’ [2019] Asian Journal of Criminology
HOYLE C and WILLIS R, ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Street: Does ‘street culture’ affect offender communication and reception in restorative justice?’ [2019] European Journal of Criminology
Hoyle C, ‘Challenging Unsafe Convictions’ (2019) 4 Proof
HOYLE C, ‘Forensic Science and Expert Testimony in Wrongful Convictions: A study of decision-making at the Criminal Cases Review Commission’ [2018] British Journal of Criminology
HOYLE C and Tilt L, ‘The Benefits of Social Capital for the Wrongfully Convicted: Considering the promise of a resettlement model’ [2018] The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
HOYLE C and Batchelor D, ‘Making room for procedural justice in restorative justice theory’ [2018] The International Journal of Restorative Justice
Hoyle C and Batchelor D, ‘Making room for procedural justice in restorative justice theory’, The International Journal of Restorative Justice’ (2018) 1(2) The International Journal of Restorative Justice 175
Burnett R, Hoyle C and Speechley N, ‘THE IMPACT OF BEING WRONGLY ACCUSED OF ABUSE IN OCCUPATIONS OF TRUST’ [2017] The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
Sato M, Hoyle C and Speechley N, ‘Wrongful Convictions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers by the Criminal Cases Review Commission’ (2017) 2017(2) 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(1) 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(4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 681
Hoyle C, ‘Thinking about death penalty abolitionist reform: lessons from abroad and options for China’ [2014] China Legal Science
Hoyle C and Palmer N, ‘Family justice centres: A model for empowerment?’ (2014) 20(2) International Review of Victimology 191
Hoyle C, ‘Book review: peculiar institution: America’s death penalty in an age of abolition’ (2012) 12(3) Criminology and Criminal Justice 335
Dempsey M, Hoyle C and Bosworth M, ‘Defining Sex Trafficking in International and Domestic Law: Mind the Gaps’ (2012) 26(1) Emory International Law Review
Walters M and Hoyle C, ‘Exploring the everyday world of hate victimization through community mediation’ (2012) 18(1) International Review of Victimology 7
Bosworth M, Hoyle C and Dempsey M, ‘Researching Trafficked Women’ (2011) 17(9) 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(3) Social & Legal Studies 313
Hoyle C, ‘The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia. By David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring’ (2011) 45(2) Law & Society Review 513
Hoyle C, ‘Global Restrictions on the Use of the Death Penalty: The New Dynamic of Human Rights’ (2011) 28 Criminal Law Review 44866
Hoyle C, Bosworth M and Dempsey M, ‘Victims of Sex Trafficking: Exploring the borderland between rhetoric and reality’ [2011] Social and Legal Studies
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 23377
Hood R and Hoyle C, ‘Abolishing the Death Penalty Worldwide: The Impact of a “New Dynamic”’ (2009) 38(1) Crime and Justice 1
Hoyle C and Rose D, ‘Labour, Law and Order’ (2008) 72(1) Political Quarterly 77
Hoyle C, ‘Will she be safe? A critical analysis of risk assessment in domestic violence cases’ (2008) 30(3) Children and Youth Services Review 323
Hoyle C, ‘Roche: Accountability in Restorative Justice’ (2005) 68(2) Modern Law Review 341
Hoyle C and others, ‘Introducing Restorative Justice to the Police Complaints System: Close Encounters of the Rare Kind.’ [2003] Occasional Paper No. 20. Centre for Criminological Research 35
HOYLE C and Young R, ‘Examining the Guts of Restorative Justice’ [2000] Criminal Justice Matters
Hoyle C and Sanders A, ‘Police response to domestic violence - From victim choice to victim empowerment?’ (2000) 40(1) BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY 14
‘The context and impact of being wrongly accused of abuse in occupations of trust’ (2017) 56(2) Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 176
‘Contradictions in judicial support for capital punishment in India and Bangladesh: utilitarian rationales’ (2019) 15 Asian Journal of Criminology 141
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
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, 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
HOYLE C and HARRY L, ‘Diversion or death? The moral framework shaping bifurcated punishments for drug offences in Indonesia’ Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
HOYLE C and Sato M, Reasons to Doubt (Oxford University Press 2019)
Bosworth M and Hoyle C (eds.), What is Criminology? (Oxford University PressOxford 2011)
Cunneen C and Hoyle C, Debating Restorative Justice (2010)
Hood CBE QC (Hon) DCL FBA R and Hoyle C, The Death Penalty (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2008)
Hood R and Hoyle C, The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (Oxford University Press 2008)
Hoyle C, Negotiating Domestic Violence Police, Criminal Justice and Victims (Oxford University Press 2000)
Hoyle C, ‘Death Penalty’ in C Binder and others (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar publishing 2022)
Hoyle C and Fonseca Robenblatt F, ‘La Justicia Restaurativa En Reino Unido: Repitiendo los errors del pasado’ in H Soleto and A Carrascosa (eds.), Justicia Restaurativa: Una Justicia Para Las Victimas (Tirant publishing 2019)
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 and Sanders A, ‘POLICE RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: From Victim Choice to Victim Empowerment?’, Domestic Violence (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 TG Blomberg and others (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)
Loader I, ‘Changing Climates of Control: The Rise and Fall of Police Authority in England and Wales’ 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” of criminal justice’, Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy (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 and Young R, ‘Restorative Justice and Punishment’, The Use of Punishment (2013)
HOYLE C, ‘Policing and Restorative Justice’, Handbook of Restorative Justice (2013)
Hoyle C, ‘Victims, Victimisation and Restorative Justice’ in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford University Press 2012)
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, ‘’Restorative Justice, Victims and the Police’’, Handbook of Policing (2012)
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)
‘Mapping the Borders of Criminology: Concluding Thoughts’, , What is Criminology? (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2011)
‘What is Criminology? An Introduction’, , What is Criminology? (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2011)
Hoyle C and Hood R, ‘Towards Global Abolition of the Death Penalty: Progress and Prospects’ in C of Europe / World Coalition against the Death Penalty (ed.), The Current State of the Death Penalty (Council of Europe / World Coalition against the Death Penalty 2010)
HOYLE C, ‘Feminism, Victimology and Domestic Violence’’ in S Walklate (ed.), The Handbook of Victims and Victimology (Taylor & Francis 2007)
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)
Young R and Hoyle C, ‘New, Improved Police-Led Restorative Justice? Action-Research and the Thames Valley Police Initiative’, Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms? (2003)
Hoyle C and Young R, ‘Restorative Justice, Victims and the Police’ in T Newburn (ed.), Handbook of Policing (Willan Publishing. 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’’ in RD King and E Wincup (eds.), Doing Research on Crime and Justice (Oxford University Press 2000)
HOYLE C and Jabbar P, ‘Pathways to Prison: Economic, Personal and Relational Motivations for Drug Offending in Indonesia’ in W-C Chan, M Sato and M Hor (eds.), Capital Drug Laws in Asia (Cambridge University Press)
Hoyle C, Restorative Justice (Critical Concepts series) (Routledge 2009)
Young R, New Visions of Crime Victims (Hart publishing 2002)
Hoyle C, ‘Ian O’Donnell, Justice, Mercy & Caprice: Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland’ [2019] Dublin University Law Journal (review)
Hoyle C, ‘The American Death Penalty: A flawed institution: Review of Deadly Justice by Baumgartner et al.’ [2018] (3) Political Quarterly (review)
Young R and others, ‘Informal resolution of complaints against the police’ (2005) 5(3) Criminology and Criminal Justice 279 (review)
HOYLE C, ‘The Feasibility of Conducting Research on Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty in Indonesia’ (The Death Penalty Project 2019)
HOYLE C, ‘Unsafe Convictions in Capital Cases in Taiwan’ (The Death Penalty Project 2019)
Wilcox A, Young R and Hoyle C, ‘An Evaluation of the Impact of Restorative Cautioning: Findings from a Reconviction Study, Home Office Research Findings’ (Home Office 2004)
Hoyle C, Wilcox A and Young R, ‘Two-year Resanctioning Study: A Comparison of Restorative and Traditional Cautions’ (Home Office 2004)
Hoyle C and others, ‘Meeting Expectations: The Application of Restorative Justice to the Police Complaints Process’ (Occasional Paper No. 21, Centre for Criminological Research 2003)
Hoyle C, Young R and Hill R, ‘Proceed with Caution: An Evaluation of the Thames Valley Police Initiative in Restorative Cautioning’ (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2002)
Young R and Hoyle C, ‘The Implementation and Effectiveness of the Initiative in Restorative Cautioning by Thames Valley Police, Research Findings’ (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2002)
Hoyle C, ‘Restorative Justice and other New Penal Patterns, Conference Rapporteur’s Report to the Ditchley Foundation’ (Ditchley Conference Document D00/07 2000)