Publication Showcase

Prison Life: Pain, Resistance and Purpose by Ian O’Donnell, (NYU Press, forthcoming in 2023) offers a fresh appreciation of how people in prison organise their lives, drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe and the US. The book describes how order is maintained, how power is exercised, how days are spent, and how meaning is found in a variety of environments that all have the same function – incarceration – but discharge it very differently. It is based on an unusually diverse range of sources including photographs, drawings, court cases, official reports, memoirs, and site visits.

A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland (Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2023) is edited by (opens in a new window)Mark Coen (UCD), Katherine O’Donnell (UCD) and Maeve O’Rourke (Galway University). The book focuses on one institution and the lives of the girls and women held there to reveal the underlying framework of Ireland's wider system of institutionalisation. The analysis includes a focus on the privatisation and commodification of public welfare, reproductive injustice, institutionalised misogyny, class prejudice, the visibility of supposedly 'hidden' institutions and the role of oral testimony in reconstructing history.

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Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from A Periphery (Emerald Publishing, 2022) is edited by Lynsey Black (University of Maynooth), Louise Brangan (Strathclyde University) and Deirdre Healy (UCD). The book focuses on twentieth century Irish penal history, foregrounding often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment such as gender, postcoloniality, religion, rurality, and carcerality beyond the criminal justice system.

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Joe McGrath and Ciaran Walker’s book, New Accountability in Financial Services:

Changing Individual Behaviour and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), combines insiders’ accounts of enforcing financial services regulation with scholarly analysis. It also examines individual accountability frameworks in multiple jurisdictions and locates these frameworks in the broader sociological and regulatory contexts arising from the Global Financial Crash.

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Estelle Zinsstag and Marie Keenan’s edited collection, Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence:
Legal, Social and Therapeutic Dimensions (Routledge, 2017) brings together leading expert scholars and practitioners to explore restorative justice in the context of sexual trauma and violence in order to establish the empirical realities of restorative justice approaches in cases of sexual violence, and considers how such approaches could be developed adequately in the future.

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