Dr Lucy Harry

DPhil (PhD)

Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology

Contact information

lucy.harry@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy, Criminology, University of Oxford, 2022

Master of Science, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Oxford, 2018

Master of Arts, Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, 2017

Graduate Diploma, Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2024

Biography

Lucy Harry is an Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, and a Research Associate of the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), University of Oxford. Previously, Lucy was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford where she also completed her doctoral and masters studies. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK and by the Gregory Kulkes Scholarship in Law at Balliol College, Oxford.

Her work focuses on the intersections between the death penalty, gender, migration and drug policy. Lucy has conducted empirical research on capital punishment in Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya and the Middle East. She is published in top criminological journals including the British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & Society, and the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.

Lucy has provided Guest Lectures on Punishment in the Global South for graduate students at the University of Oxford, and she worked for several years as an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK where she taught a range of undergraduate criminology classes. At the University of Calgary she teaches introduction to legal studies, equality issues, criminalization of migration, and research methods in law and society.

Publications

A permanent maid moratorium: The death penalty in the Middle East and Female Migrant Workers from Indonesia. Harry, L. & Hutton, J.. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. Online first. (2025)
Diversion or Death? The moral framework shaping bifurcated punishments for drug offences in Indonesia. Hoyle, C. & Harry, L.. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 347-357. (2024)
'It's Just a Matter of Key Performance Indicators': The Disposability of Foreign National Women Sentenced to Death for Drug Trafficking in Malaysia. Harry, L.. In: Chamberlen, A. & Bandyopadhyay, M. (eds.) Geographies of Gendered Punishment.Palgrave Macmillan. 45-64. (2024)
Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf. Harry, L., Hoyle, C. & Hutton, J.. Punishment & Society. 109-127. (2023)
The Legacy of Colonial Patriarchy in the Current Administration of the Malaysian Death Penalty: The Hyper-Sentencing of Foreign National Women to Death for Drug Trafficking. Harry, L.. In: Aliverti, A., Carvalho, H., Chamberlen, A. & Sozzo, M. (eds) Decolonizing the Criminal Question. Oxford University Press. . 257-274. (2023)
A Disproportionate Risk of Being Executed: Why Pakistani Migrants are Vulnerable to Capital Punishment in Saudi Arabia. Hoyle, C., Hutton, J. & Harry, L.. British Journal of Criminology. 1423-1440. (2023)
Perpetrators and/or Victims? The Case of Women Facing the Death Penalty in Malaysia. Harry, L.. In: Jefferson, A.M. & Jeffries, S. (eds.) Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia. Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology.. 31-44. (2022)
Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Crime and Economic Factors: The Case-Study of Women Sentenced to Death for Drug Trafficking in Malaysia. Harry, L.. Laws. 1-26. (2021)
Compounded vulnerability: foreign national women and the death penalty in Southeast Asia. Hoyle, C. & Harry, L. . Amicus Journal. (2020)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: The Impact on Women. Harry, L. & Girelli, G.. Harm Reduction International. (2019)
'Do you have a boyfriend here?': Exploring decision-makers' treatment of migrant women. Harry, L. & Linstrum-Newman, M. . Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW). (2024)
The Death Penalty in Kenya: A Punishment that has Died Out in Practice. Hoyle, C. & Harry, L.. Death Penalty Project. (2022)