Congratulations to Elizabeth Kiely, Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC, and Katharina Swirak, Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC, on the publication of their recent book!

The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies, published this month by Bristol University, is concerned with how diverse fields of social policy intersect with crime control in ways that they did in the past but also in new ways, which deploy very troubling strategies.

Congratulations to Arpad Szakolczai, our Emeritus Professor of Sociology on the publication of his latest book from all your colleagues!

This timely book will appeal to scholars of social theory, anthropology and sociology with interests in political thought and contemporary culture. It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.

The Department of Sociology and Criminology

In association with the Society, Economy and Culture Research Centre presents:

The launch of Criminal Women: Gender Matters with a seminar on 25^th May 2022. 2-4pm at the CACSSS Seminar Room (G27), O’ Rahilly Building, UCC.

The Department of Sociology and Criminology Seminar Series presents:

a seminar with Professor Gary Craig entitled:

The Racist Tail Wags the Welfare Dog