January 2014

Dr Mary Rogan (http://www.dit.ie/socialscienceslaw/law/staff/drmaryrogan/), Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies, has been appointed to represent Ireland on the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation. This organisation succeeded the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission of the League of Nations in the middle of the twentieth century and has a quasi-governmental status approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations. It comprises experts in prisons and prison policy from around the world. 

 Dr. Rogan is one of three representatives from Ireland, the other two being Judge Michael Reilly, Inspector of Prisons, and Michael Mellett, a former senior civil servant in the Department of Justice.  Later this month, Dr. Rogan will travel to Bangkok to discuss the  United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (‘the Bangkok Rules’), including their application in Ireland and internationally, and how they can be reformed. 

 Dr. Rogan is the author of Prison Policy in Ireland: Punishment, Penal-welfarism and political imprisonment (Routledge, 2011) (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415616195/) and Prison Law (Bloomsbury, forthcoming) http://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/1700/Bloomsbury-Professional-Prison-Law.html. She teaches Prison Policy on the School's MA in Criminology and supervises MA and PhD students researching prison issues.