We are delighted to announce that Professor David Wall is a visiting Professor with us for the academic year.  David is Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds.

Following from our successful Seminar Series last College Year, we are delighted to be collaborating with UCC Criminology Society @UCCCrimSoc for the first in our WEBINAR Series on 8th October 2020. 12.00-1.00pm with Prof Ursula Kilkelly (School of Law UCC) who is Chair of the Board of Management of Oberstown.

Respondents: Dr Egle Gusciute and Dr Katharina Swirak (Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC)

Chaired by Callum Francis McGuire (UCC Crim Soc) and Prof. Maggie O’Neill (Head of Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC)

Organising Team: Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo, Callum Francis McGuire and Kevin Hosford.

View webinar here

Congratulations to Professor Maggie O'Neill, who with Dr. Alison Jobe has a chapter in the fifth edition of this best-selling textbook that provides a comprehensive overview of key issues and debates in gender and feminist theory. 

'introducing gender and women's studies' by Diane Richardson and Victoria Robinson is just published and Maggie and Alison's chapter is 'Gender and Migration'. 

Congratulations to Maggie for chairing this timely and informative webinar with excellent speakers Kayleigh Garthwaite, Tracey Herrington, Shahid Islam, Ruth Patrick and Maddy Power on researching poverty in the  pandemic. 

Click to connect to the webinar: youtu.be/GmAQgtJBJ_A

 Professor Maggie O'Neill is an advisor to the Covid Realities Project.

Covid Realities is a research project looking into the experiences of parents and carers on low incomes during the pandemic. 

The disruption caused by Covid-19 means Ireland is likely to enter a severe economic recession. A relatively small body of international research shows that drug consumption and dealing have previously increased during recessions and economic downturns, although there are important variations across national and local markets. 

An article by Dr James Windle, a lecturer in Criminology and Director of the BA Criminology Degree at UCC; Dr Sinéad Drew, a Senior Clinical Psychologist at CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service) at the HSE and James Leonard, a Youth Support Officer with the Cork Education and Training Board and a Masters in Criminology at UCC, has been published by RTE Brainstorm.

Congratulations to Professor Maggie O'Neill (University College Cork, Ireland), Ruth Penfold-Mounce
(University of York, UK), David Honeywell (University of Hull, UK; The University of Manchester, UK), Matt Coward-Gibbs (University of York, UK), Harriet Crowder (University of York, UK), Ivan Hill (Independent Scholar, UK) on this interesting and informative paper. It is built upon research that combines walking as a research method alongside participatory and biographical research to teach criminology and generate criminological knowledge and understanding in sensory and corporeal ways. They argue for a mobile criminology
that attends to space, place, and time to analyse theories and concepts in criminology, as well
as to undertake and apply research.

Congratulations to James Windle and James Leonard on the publication of this paper that explores how people who formerly used drugs problematically view Irish drug policy and alternative policies.

Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Orla Lynch from all her colleagues at the Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC! This award is under the H2020 SC6 Governance for the Future call (RIA action) and Dr. Orla Lynch has been awarded 249,000 euros funding for her role in this project.  

The project is called PARTICIPATION and is a consortium of 9 European Partners.

Congratulations Egle on your recent article!

In this article, Egle looks at how the measures taken to protect those deemed vulnerable have not been extended to include some 7700 international protection applicants living in Direct Provision centres. She reflects on how asylum seekers, one of the most vulnerable groups in Irish society, have been left behind during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to Theresa and Katharina on the publication of this article!

Critical Sociology and Criminology highlight the importance of asking questions about the nature of policing, its purpose, and its relationship to power and conceptions of justice. Michel Foucault’s work on the origins of the modern prison institution in 18th century France provides a good foundation for thinking critically about what we often leave unquestioned.