On 15-16 June 2023, Dublin City University School of Law and Government hosted the annual North-South Criminology Conference, with several Maynooth criminologists delivering presentations over the two days.
Ian Marder and Lynsey Black contributed to plenary sessions. On the first morning, Ian delivered a workshop, entitled Co-creating Principles for Collaborative Research as part of a panel on academic-practice engagement. In the final plenary, Lynsey spoke to the title Historical Criminology? Telling Stories of Women and Punishment as part of a session on historical criminology.
Several of their colleagues at Maynooth presented during parallel sessions over the two days. On the first day, Rhiannon Bandiera presented Does Ireland Need a Modern Slavery Act? Critical Reflections on Australia’s Modern Slavery Laws as State-corporate Benevolence within a panel on drug crime and modern slavery, while in a panel on extremism and hate crime, John Morrison presented his research under the title A Thematic Analysis of Being a Right-Wing Extremist. Rhiannon also chaired a panel on domestic, gender-based and cyber victimisation.
Megan Coghlan presented Insulation from Loss: Exploring the Role of Social Bonds at the Reoffending and Desistance Stages of the Offending Cycle in a parallel session on social bonds and subcultures. Joe Garrihy and Ciara Bracken-Roche co-presented Unlocking Potential: Boxed Out of Higher Education by Criminal Conviction Records and Perceptions of Risk as part of a later panel focusing on criminal records and access to higher education. Joe and Ciara organised this panel, which Joe chaired, and which involved inviting their colleagues from the University of Nottingham.
Lynsey Black and PhD student Danielle Jefferis presented on Penal Nationalism and the Northern Ireland Border as part of a panel on border criminologies, while three further current or recent PhD students also presented. Siobhán Buckley presented twice: once on a panel relating to youth justice (title: ‘Hard Cases’, ‘Exit Points’ and ‘Instant Adults’: Examining the Boundaries Between Adult and Youth Justice Systems), and once on a panel relating to young adults and transition (title: “From a ‘difficult sell’ to no ‘controversy’? Young adults and transitions in Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands).
Niamh Wade, PhD student at Maynooth and lecturer at Solent University, presented A Feasibility Study on the Introduction of a Community Court in Ireland: Findings and Recommendations as part of a panel on community interventions. Finally, Shauna Armstrong presented The Birth of the Care System: From the Brehon Era to the Children Act 1908 on a historical criminology panel.