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Jacqueline Hodgson

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Professor

Director of COPR

Criminal Justice & Human Rights; Comparative & European Criminal Justice; Prosecution; Criminal Defence; Miscarriages of Justice

 
School of Law
S1.19, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom


024 765 24163

Jackie has researched and written in the area of European & comparative criminal justice. Her recently published monograph "The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice" (2020, New York: OUP) analyses several decades of legal and political change, contrasting domestic and European drivers within criminal justice across Britain and France and evaluating the ways that procedural models are able to influence, structure or limit reform. Adopting a comparative empirical and policy lens, she questions the extent to which modern criminal justice systems continue to reflect core values of the adversarial and inquisitorial traditions, or whether concerns with managerialism, efficiency and securitisation prevail, producing a kind of facsimile of justice and fair trial.

She has conducted numerous large scale qualitative empirical studies in Britain and France, as well as several comparative studies in Europe. These have all been externally funded and have resulted in major publications and wider dissemination, including significant public engagement. Feeding directly into EU legislative reforms, she completed a large comparative empirical project examining the effectiveness of suspects' rights in four EU jurisdictions (Inside Police Custody, 2014) and an empirical study of the protection of juvenile suspects held for police questioning in five different EU Member States (Interrogating Young Suspects, 2016). Both studies were funded by the European Commission. She has also worked on the investigation and prosecution of crime in France, the provision of effective defence rights, terrorism investigations, the impact of legal representation on applications to the CCRC, legal aid and access to justice, miscarriages of justice, and prisoner well-being through letter writing.

Her work is increasingly interdisciplinary. She has collaborated with psychology colleagues on two projects: examining the impact of different police strategies of evidence disclosure; evaluating the impact of forensic property marking and other preventive interventions on public confidence in, and victim satisfaction with, policing.

She is currently researching the nature of the West Midlands Police partnership with Coventry City of Culture Trust - its impacts and how arts and culture can help police better reach and serve their communities; the treatment of female detainees in police custody, working with lawyers, criminologists and a variety of criminal justice stakeholders; and with JUSTICE, she is investigating access to legal advice for suspects in Scotland.