Clean Slate
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Criminal Convictions
Project Overview
CLEAN SLATE is a participatory action research study that engages men with past criminal convictions as peer-to-peer researchers to document and analyse their challenges of navigating social reintegration with a criminal record.
The project works in partnership with Cork Alliance Centre, a voluntary sector organisation based in Cork City who support people to make a fresh start after prison.
Find out more about this project at: Clean Slate Cork
Outputs
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O'Rourke, P., Swirak, K. and Krenzer, U. (2023, forthcoming). ‘The ’soul-destroying’ release from prison into the void - a ‘walking map’ highlighting some of the systemic drivers of the prison-homelessness ‘swinging door’’, in the Republic of Ireland, in: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
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Swirak, K., Kenny, T., O'Rourke, P. and Purcell, K. forthcoming, 2024). ‘Walking, Crime, Justice and Reintegration after Prison’, in: Walking as Critical Pedagogy. Routledge.
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Turnaround Project Lived Experience Podcast: ‘Katharina Swirak: From Migrant Women and United Nations to Youth Diversion and Inside Out’, on The Lived Experience
Funder & Project Dates
This project is funded under the New Foundations 2021 Programme from December 2021 - September 2022.
Contact
Dr. Katharina Swirak (PI), Department of Sociology and Criminology. Email: k.swirak@ucc.ie
