Lucy Harry

Dr Lucy Harry is an Assistant Professor of Law and Society at the University of Calgary, Canada. Previously, Lucy was a postdoctoral researcher at the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford where she also completed her doctoral and masters studies, under the supervision of Professor Carolyn Hoyle. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Gregory Kulkes Scholarship in Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Her work focuses on the intersections between the death penalty, gender, migration and drug policy. Lucy has conducted empirical research on capital punishment in Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya and the Middle East. She is published in top criminological journals including the British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & Society, and the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, as well as chapters in edited collections, including Decolonizing the Criminal Question edited by Aliverti et al. and published by Oxford University Press. Her first book, focused on cases of foreign national women sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Malaysia, is under contract with Routledge and will be published as part of the Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship series.

Lucy has also worked on a number of DPRU projects including the ESRC-funded project on 'Mapping the Political Economy of Drugs and the Death Penalty in Southeast Asia', and research on opinion shapers views on the death penalty in Kenya in conjunction with The Death Penalty Project and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.