Hood, Roger, 1936-2020

Roger Hood, Reader in and then Professor of Criminology at Oxford University from 1973 to 2003, was only the second criminologist to be elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. He will be remembered for two distinct intellectual contributions. First, he played a huge role in the early development of criminological scholarship in the United Kingdom. This was achieved partly through his pioneering research on several aspects of English criminal justice (sentencing, parole, justice for ethnic minorities and penal history), and partly through his wider academic leadership, both in Oxford and beyond. Then later in his career, and following an initial invitation from the United Nations, he became a world-leading scholar on all aspects of the use of the death penalty internationally, viewed primarily from a human rights perspective.

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