Roger Grahame Hood, CBE, FBA (12 June 1936 – 17 November 2020) was a British criminologist. From 1996 to 2003, he was professor of criminology at the University of Oxford; he was also a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1973 to 2003. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1992 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1995.^[1][2]

Publications

• Sentencing in Magistrate's Courts (London: Stevens, 1962)
• Borstal Re-Assessed (London: Heinemann, 1965)
• Homeless Borstal Boys (London: Bell and Co., 1966)
• (with Richard F. Sparks) Key Issues in Criminology (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970)
• Sentencing the Motoring Offender (London: Heinemann, 1972)
• (Editor) Crime, Criminology and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz (London: Heinemann, 1974)
• (with Sir Leon Radzinowicz) Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Bibliography (London: Mansell, 1976)
• (with Sir Leon Radzinowicz) A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration, vol. 5: The Emergence of Penal Policy (London: Stevens, 1986)
  • Reprinted as: (with Sir Leon Radzinowicz) The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
• The Death Penalty: A World-Wide Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988; 2nd edn, 1996; 3rd edn, 2002; 4th edn (with Carolyn Hoyle), 2008; 5th edn (with Carolyn Holyle), 2015)
• (with Graça Cordovil) Race and Sentencing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
• (with Stephen Shute) The Parole System at Work: A Study of Risk-Based Decision-Making, Home Office Research Study, vol. 202 (London: Home Office, 2000)
• (with Martina Feilzer) Difference or Discrimination?: Ethnic Minorities in the Youth Justice System (London: Youth Justice Board, 2004)
• (with Stephen Shute and Florence Seemungal) A Fair Hearing? Ethnic Minorities in the Criminal Courts (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005)
• (editor, with Surya Deva) Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)