News and Events 2011
Socio-Legal Speaker Series to host Professor Valerie Jenness, Dean of the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine.
On Tuesday 22nd November, the Socio-Legal Speaker Series at DIT will hear from Professor Valerie Jenness, Dean of the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, who will speak on her recent work with Kitty Calavita examining how and why prisoners decide to file complaints about their conditions of confinement. This seminal study involved interviews with over 100 prisoners and an examination of grievances filed in the Californian prison system.
This seminar represents a unique opportunity to hear from one of the foremost scholars in the field of sociology speak about this exciting new work. The seminar will be of interest to those involved in criminology, those who work in or study 'closed institutions', accountability structures or how people respond to confinement. It will also be of interest to lawyers working in prison law, as well as all those working with or in the prison system and penal reform.
Event Details
The seminar take places in DIT Aungier Street (room 4068) at 6pm on Tues, 22nd November, 2011. There is no need to RSVP.
About Prof. Valerie Jenness:
Valerie Jenness is Dean of the School of Social Ecology, Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and President-Elect of the Pacific Sociological Association. Her research focuses on the links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy.
She is the author of three books; including Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement Practice (with Ryken Grattet), Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence (with Kendal Broad), and Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective; the co-editor of Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy (with David Meyer and Helen Ingram); and the author of articles published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Annual Review of Sociology, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Law & Society Review, Gender & Society, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, American Behavioral Scientist, Sociological Perspectives, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Law and Critique, Punishment & Society, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, and Journal of Hate Studies.
Her work has been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the University of California; translated and reprinted in Japanese, Spanish, and German; presented at an array of professional conferences and universities, as well as to the U.S. Congress and the National Academy of Sciences; and funded by National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the California Policy Research Center, the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the University of California, and Washington State University.
She is a Past Co-Editor of Contemporary Sociology and Past President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She has served as an Associate Editor for Social Problems, as well as an Advisory Editor for Criminology, Social Problems, Gender & Society, Research in Political Sociology, Sexuality & Culture, and Race, Sex and Class; Vice-President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance section and Chair of the Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association, as well as Chair of the Social Problems Theory division and Chair of the Sexual Behavior, Communities, and Politics division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Vice-Chair of the Law & Society division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Council for Sociology of Law section, the Crime, Law, & Deviance section, and the Collective Behavior/Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association.
Law Students receive Students Learning with Communities Award
LLB and PGDip students received an award for their participation in a Students Learning with Communities project. This involves students conducting research to a brief set by their community partner, the Irish Penal Reform Trust. Students engaged in analysis of the sentencing of those convicted under sections 15 and 15A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 in order to understand the backgrounds of those convicted more fully. As part of the project, students also visited Merchant's Quay Ireland.
Irish Penal Reform Trust also received a special award for their participation in community-based projects with the School of Social Sciences and Law. Jane Mulcahy, Research and Policy Officer with the Irish Penal Reform Trust is pictured below receiving the award from the President of DIT, Professor Brian Norton.
Social Inclusion Week at the School of Social Sciences and Law
As part of Dublin City Council's social inclusion week (May 3rd - 7th 2011), the School of Social Sciences and Law was pleased to host two special seminars in its socio-legal speaker series.
On Wednesday May 4th, Liam Herrick, Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (www.iprt.ie) spoke about the prison system in Ireland and the potential for change. On Thursday May 5th, Karen McAuley, Researcher with the Ombudsman for Children Office (www.oco.ie) discussed about the Ombudsman for Children's recent report into St Patrick's Institution. This groundbreaking report gives us an insight into the lived experience of children and young people detained in St Patrick's Institution through their own words.
For more details contact mary.rogan@dit.ie
Discussants:
Dr. Stephen Carruthers
Dr. Elaine Fahey
Dr. Fergus Ryan
Date, Time: Thursday 14 April 6.00pm-7.30pm
Location: DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin 2. Room G-020 (Ground Floor)
This discursive seminar considers the impact of the recent decision of the Court of Justice in Case C-34/09 Zambrano v. Office national de l’emploi (Grand Chamber, 8 March, 2011) on diverse areas of law in Ireland. In Zambrano, the Court held that the parents of an EU minor citizen were entitled to residence rights and work permits in the Member State of residence and nationality of their dependent children, who were EU citizens, by virtue of the implications of EU Citizenship provided pursuant to Art. 20 TFEU.
The seminar considers several themes: EU Citizenship and national sovereignty, domestic nationality and citizenship law, the Irish Born Child scheme, Irish Supreme Court decisions on Immigration, the Family and the Constitution, EU Citizenship in the Irish courts and recent decisions of the Court of Justice on Citizenship in EU law.
All are welcome to attend and the seminar is open to the public.
No registration is necessary.
Light refreshments will be served. Further queries- contact Elaine.fahey@dit.ie or Stephen.carruthers@dit.ie.
Publication of Prison Policy in Ireland: Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment
Dr. Mary Rogan of the School of Social Sciences and Law has recently published a monograph on Irish prison policy with Routledge.
This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland’s prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced in Ireland, shedding further light on the nature of this concept as developed by David Garland. While the book has an Irish focus, it has a theoretical resonance far beyond Ireland.
This book investigates and describes prison policy in Ireland since the foundation of the state in 1922, analyses and assesses the factors influencing policy during this period and explores and examines the links between prison policy and the wider social, economic, political and cultural development of the Irish state.
It also explores how Irish prison policy has come to take on its particular character, with comparatively low prison numbers, significant reliance on short sentences and a policy-making climate in which long periods of neglect are interspersed with bursts of political activity all prominent features.
Drawing on the emerging scholarship of policy analysis, the book argues that it is only through close attention to the way in which policy is formed that we will fully understand the nature of prison policy. In addition, the book examines the effect of political imprisonment in the Republic of Ireland, which, until now, has remained relatively unexplored.
This book will be of special interest to students of criminology within Ireland, but also of relevance to students of comparative criminal justice, criminology and criminal justice policy making in the UK and beyond.
Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness launches 'Inspiring Law Graduates Series'
Judge McGuinness reflected on her distinguished career in law and public service as part of the Department of Law's 'Inspiring Law Graduates Series' on March 28 2011.
Child and Family Law Seminar
