Jacqueline Hodgson
TITLEProfessor of Law. LLB, PhD (Birmingham) CONTACT
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RESEARCH PROFILEProfessor Hodgson has researched and written in the areas of criminal justice and comparative criminal justice. Much of her work draws upon her own externally funded empirical research. Her current work includes a study of the protection of suspects' rights within EU criminal justice; the role of Criminal Cases Review Commission; research into the investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences in Britain and in France; the changing concept of prosecutorial independence in Britain and in France. In October 2009 she took up a one year British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship to examine these issues within the broader framework of 'The Metamorphosis of Criminal Procedure in the 21st century: A Comparative Analysis'. In 2011 she began a two year European Commission funded empirical study of the rights of suspects across four EU jurisdictions. In 2013 she will begin a further European Commission funded study of the treatment of juvenile suspects in police detention and interrogation across the EU. She recently held a Reinvention Centre Academic Fellowship. During this she directed a student research project exploring perspectives on criminal justice through film. During 2011 she worked with colleagues in computer science and psychology, researching issues around digital forensics and criminal justice. Her earlier work has examined the investigation and prosecution of crime in France; the organisation and practices of criminal defence lawyers in England and Wales; issues surrounding the suspect's exercise of her right to silence during police interrogation; the criminal process and miscarriages of justice. You can download some of her publications from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) |
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BACKGROUNDProfessor Hodgson holds an LLB and PhD and has researched and written in the area of UK, French, comparative and European criminal justice. Much of her work draws upon her own empirical projects funded by the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, British Academy, Leverhume Trust, AHRC, the European Commission and the Home Office. She has contributed to policy reform through her research for the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice and her evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Europe. Her monograph French Criminal Justice (2005) is the first major empirical study of the investigation and prosecution of crime in France. She has written widely in this area and her expertise has been sought in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, as well as in a number of European Arrest Warrant cases and other extradition cases. Her earlier work includes Standing Accused (1994) (with McConville, Bridges and Pavlovic), the first major empirical study of the organisation and practices of criminal defence lawyers in Britian and the key reference point in this area, as well as a study of the right to silence during police interrogation (Custodial Legal Advice and The Right to Silence, 1993 with McConville) and a study of the ways in which the criminal process produces miscarriages of justice (Criminal Injustice: An Evaluation of the Criminal Justice Process in Britian, 2000, with Belloni). She completed a major study of the protection of suspects' rights in different European countries and co-edited the resulting collection (Suspects in Europe: Procedural Rights at the Investigative Stage of the Criminal Process in the European Union, 2007, with Cape, Prakken and Spronken) and a study of the investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences in France (2006). In 2009 (with Horne), she published a study commissioned by the Legal Services Commission, 'The extent and impact of legal representation on applications to the criminal cases review commission (CCRC)'. She held a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for 2009-2010. She is currently conducting a study of suspects' rights in four EU jurisdictions (France, England & Wales, the Netherlands and Scotland). This is funded by the European Commission and runs until 2013. In 2013, she will begin a new empirical study of the protection of juvenile suspects held for police questioning in different EU Member States. This is also funded by the European Commission. |
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