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Carolyn Hoyle
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Dr Carolyn Hoyle is Reader in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, and Fellow of Green College, University of Oxford.
Carolyn HoyleShe has conducted research on restorative justice for many years.During the late 1990s she spent four years studying restorative cautioning in the Thames Valley Police, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.During this time she, and her colleague Dr Richard Young, observed 78 restorative conferences and cautions, and interviewed over 500 participants; facilitators, offenders, victims, and their respective supporters.
Carolyn also conducted a national evaluation of restorative justice schemes for juveniles for the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales and, in the early 2000s, a comparative study (funded by the Nuffield Foundation) of traditional and restorative measures for resolving complaints against the police by the public.
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Currently Carolyn Hoyle is a Commissioner for the Howard League Commission for English Prisons.This independent Commission will look at the driving forces influencing change and practice including legislation, politics and the media.It will consider the principles, purpose and limits of a penal system and how it should sit alongside other social policy strategies.Final report will be published in 2009.
Within the commission Dr Hoyle is Chair of the Restorative Justice working group and will make a case for restorative justice as a meaningful alternative response to crime and as a basis for prison programs, without widening the net of those who will be drawn into the penal system.