Staff Output
Recent publications (2009-to date)
Research in the Department of Social Sciences concentrates on the fields of early childhood, social care, juvenile justice, child abuse and youth and crime. Recent scholarly output from staff in the Department of Social Sciences and the CSER is detailed below. Where copyright allows, the full text of the publications listed below can be found in Arrow, DIT's open access research repository.
In-press
French, G. (In press). Speech, language and communication matters: Enriching the communication environment and language development in early childhood. Dublin: Barnardos Training and Resource Service.
Lalor, K. and Brown, S. (in press). Child transaction sex in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. London: Save the Children.
McElvaney, R. & Lalor, K. (in press). Child abuse in Europe. In J. Conte (Ed.), Child Abuse and Neglect Worldwide.
BOWDEN, M., Edwards, A., Gilling, D., Henry, A., Hughes, G, and Topping J. (in press). Powers, Liabilities and Expertise in Community Safety: Comparative Lessons from Britain and Ireland, European Journal of Criminology.
ROGAN, M. (in press). The Penal System in Ireland. in Ruggiero and Ryan (Eds.), Penal Systems in Europe.
ROGAN, M. (in press). Prison policy in times of austerity. Prison Service Journal.
Mhic Mhathúna, M (in press). Cultural and Linguistic Capital in the Early Years. Proceedings of Our Children- Our Future conference. IT Sligo October 20-22, 2011.
2013
Anderson, V., Doyle, J. and McGarty, P. (2013). Social care management: Theory and practice. In K. Lalor & P. Share (Eds.), Applied social care: An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Doyle, J. and Lalor, K. (2013). The social care practice placement: A college perspective. In K. Lalor & P. Share (Eds.), Applied social care: An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
French, G. (2013). Early literacy and numeracy matters. An Leanbh Óg: The OMEP Ireland Journal of Early Childhood Studies. (31-45) 7.
French, G. (2013). Early speech and language matters: Enriching the communication environment and language development in early childhood. Dublin: Barnardos Training and Resource Service.
Gallagher, C. (2013). Social care and the older person. In K. Lalor & P. Share (Eds.), Applied social care: An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Lalor, K. (guest editor) (2013). Children, community, violence and the physical environment. Children, youth and environments (special issue), 23(1).
Lalor, K. & Share, P. (Eds.) (2013). Applied social care: An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Lalor, K. & Share, P. (2013). Understanding social care. In K. Lalor & P. Share (Eds.), Applied social care: An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Seymour, M. (2013). Homelessness. In K. Lalor & P. Share (Eds.), Applied social care: An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
McSWEENEY, F. (2013). ‘Moving In’: Difficulties and Support in the Transition to Higher Education for in-service Social Care Students. Social Work Education: The International Journal, DOI:10.1080/02615479.2013.770832
Mhic Mhathúna, M. (2013). Cultural and linguistic capital in early years education and care. In B. McTaggart and P. Share, (Eds.), Our Children, Our Future Conference Proceedings (pp. 95-104). Sligo: Institute of Technology.
2012
Corcoran, M.P. & Lalor, K. (Eds.) (2012). Reflections on crisis: The role of the public intellectual. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Fitzpatrick, A. (2012). Working with Parents in Early Years Services. In M. Mhic Mhathúna and Mark Taylor (Eds.), Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
French, G. (2012). Eight vimeos within Aistear’s themes of Communicating and Exploring and thinking : ‘My favourite things’, ‘Dressing the Baby’, Solving a problem’, ‘Me and my body’, ‘Peer mentoring’, ‘Playing with octons’, ‘Mister potato head’ ‘Walking on stilts’. Commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. (see www.ncca.ie/aisteartoolkit)
French, G. (2012). Early literacy and numeracy matters: Enriching literacy and numeracy experiences in early childhood. Dublin: Barnardos Training and Resource Service.
French, G (2012). Practitioners and children talking and thinking together. Tip sheet forpractitioners of young children (2½ – 6 years). Commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. (see ww.ncca.ie/aisteartoolkit)
Halpenny, A.M. (2012). Parenting and Family Support for Families ‘at risk’ - Implications from Child Abuse Reports. Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 12(1),89-98.
Hayes, N. (2012). Children at the Centre of Practice. In In M. Mhic Mhathúna and Mark Taylor (Eds.), Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Keogh, P. & Hayes, N. (2012). Communicating with children in early and middle childhood In Lambert, V. Long, T, &Kelleher D. (Eds) Communication Skills For Children’s Nurses pp.19-33 Berkshire, England; McGraw Hill Open University Press.
Lalor, K., Bowden, M., Griffin, K., McElvaney, R., Quinn, B., Kelleher, C. (2012). Take charge of change: Being young and Irish, Full Report. Dublin: Áras an Uachtaráin.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. and Taylor, M. (Eds.) (2012). Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. (2012).Child Language in the Early Years. In M. Mhic Mhathúna and Mark Taylor (Eds.), Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. and Taylor, M. (2012). The Montessori Approach to Early Childhood Education. In M. Mhic Mhathúna and Mark Taylor (Eds.), Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. and Taylor, M. (2012). The Future: where are we going? In M. Mhic Mhathúna and Mark Taylor (Eds.), Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Pettersen, J. (2012). Learning Outdoors. In Mhic Mhathúna, M. & Taylor. M. (Eds.) Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
ROGAN, M. (2012). Rehabilitation, Research and Reform: Prison Policy in Ireland. Irish Probation Journal, (9) 6-32.
ROGAN, M. (2012). Improving Criminal Justice Data and Policy. Economic and Social Review 43(2) 303-323.
ROGAN, M. (2012). Prisoners’ rights and the separation of powers: comparing approaches in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales. Public Law 3 July, 415-425.
ROGAN, M. (2012). Brown, Governor of California et al v. Plata et al. Modern Law Review 75(2) 261-274.
ROGAN, M. (2012). Dealing with Overcrowding in Prisons: Contrasting Judicial Approaches from the USA and Ireland. The Irish Jurist (47)195-202.
Seymour M. (2012). Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People. New York: Routledge.
Seymour M. (2012) Juvenile Justice. In Hamilton, C. (2012), Social Work and Social Care Law. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Smith, K. (2012). Sociological perspectives on childhood. In M. Mhic Mhathúna and M. Taylor (Eds.) Early childhood education and care. An introduction for students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Wieczorek-Deering, D. & Halpenny, A.M. (2012). Theoretical Perspectives on Children’s Development during the Early Years. In M. MhicMhathúna and M. Taylor (Eds.), Early Childhood Education and Care. An Introduction for Students in Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
2011
Bowden, M. and Martin-Lanigan, K. (2011). Youth work as a public good: older teenagers’ experiences of youth services in Dublin. Youth Studies Ireland, 6(3) 3-20.
Kelleher, C., Christie, R., Lalor, K., Fox, J., Bowden, M. & O’Donnell, C. (2011). An overview of new psychoactive substances and the outlets supplying them. Dublin: National Advisory Committee on Drugs.
Lalor, K. & McElvaney, R. (2011). Overview of the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in Europe. In ‘Protecting children from sexual violence - A comprehensive approach’. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
McSweeney, F. (2011). Student, practitioner, or both? Separation and integration of identities in professional social care education. Social Work Education. First published on: 12 March 2011 (iFirst). DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2011.557428
McSweeney, F. (2011). Learning for Work: Social Identities and Professional Education in Social Care. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. (2011) An Traein. Eolas agus Moltaí do Stiúrthóirí Naíonraí agus do Mhúinteoirí Gaelscoileanna. Baile Átha Cliath: Gaelscoileanna agus Forbairt Naíonraí Teo.
Rogan, M. (2011). Penal policy in Ireland: Politics, penal-welfarism and political imprisonment. New York: Routledge.
Rogan, M. (2011), The innocence rights of sentenced offenders. Irish Journal of Legal Studies, 2(1), 55-66.
Rogan, M. (2011). Yes (or no) Minister: the importance of the Minister-senior civil servant dyad in Irish prison policy 91, The Prison Journal, 32-56.
Smith, K. (2011). Producing governable subjects: images of childhood old and new. Childhood. First published on August 22, 2011 (online first) DOI: 10.1177/0907568211401434
Williams, D. and Gilligan, R. (2011). Self Injury and the Challenges of Responding to Young People in Care: The Experiences of a Sample of Social Care Workers. Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies 11(1) 13-25.
2010
Fitzgibbon, W., Hamilton, C. & Richardson, M. (2010). A risky business: An examination of Irish probation officers attitudes and work practices regarding risk assessment. Probation Journal, 57, 163-174.
Freeman, S. and Seymour M. (2010). “Just waiting”: The nature and effect of uncertainty on young people in remand custody in Ireland. Youth Justice 10 (2): 126-142.
Halpenny, A. M., Nixon, E. & Watson, D. (2010). Parental perspectives on parenting styles and disciplining children. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.
Hamilton, C. (2010). Organised criminals as 'agents of obligation': The case of Ireland. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. (online first) 8 December 2010, 1-14.
Hayes, N. (2010). Early childhood: An introductory text (4th ed.). Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
Hayes, N. (2010) Childcare? Early Childhood Education and Care? Towards an integrated early years policy for young children in Ireland. Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 30, 1, 67-78.
Kelleher, C. & Lalor, K. (2010). An evaluation of the National Crime Victims Helpline. Dublin: National Crime Victims Helpline.
Kiersey, R. & Hayes, N. (2010). Reporting the Rhetoric, Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as Represented in Ireland's Second Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Child Care in Practice, 16, 4, 327-346.
Lalor, K. & McElvaney, R. (2010). Overview of the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in Europe. In Protecting children from sexual violence - A comprehensive approach. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Lalor, K. (2010). “The same, but different”: Salary scales, progression arrangements and duties in Institutes of Technology (IoTs) and universities. Administration, 58(3), 79-105.
McWilliams, A. & Hamilton, C. (2010). There's Nothing like a GAL. The Guardian ad litem service in Ireland. Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 10(1), 31-39.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. (2010). Arís is Arís Eile: Scéalta mar áis teanga sa Naíonra. Oideas 55, 2010. (Journal of Department of Education and Science), pp. 31-53.
Nixon, E. & Halpenny, A. M. (2010). Children's perspectives on parenting styles and disciplining children. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.
Pettersen, J., Creely, M., & Pappin, A. (2010). (Eds.) Youth media for Europe: Perspectives on youth media & politics. Dublin. CSER.
Rogan, M. (2010). Haughey, the department of justice and Irish prison policy during the 1960s. Administration, 57(3).
Wieczorek-Deering, D. , Halpenny, A.M. & Deering , J. (2010). Irish Fathers’ Involvement with their Toddlers in Dual Earner Families: Antecedent and Concurrent Correlates. In Zukauskiene, R. (Ed.), Proceedings of the XIV European Conference on Developmental Psychology ECDP. Vilnius, Lithuania, August 18-22, 2009 (pp.289-292). Pianoro: Medimond.
2009
Bowden, M. (2009). 'The gift relationship', in Anheier, H. and Toepler, S. (Eds.) International encyclopedia of civil society (759-763). New York: Springer.
Bradley, S. and Hayes, N. (2009), Considering the Child in Ireland’s Early Childhood Education and Care Policy, Administration, 57, 1.
Breen, J., Manning, U., O’Donnell, I., O’Mahony, D. and Seymour, M. (2009). The Republic of Ireland. In J. Junger-Tas, I.H. Marshall, D. Enzmann, M. Killias, M. Steketee, & B. Gruszczynska, (Eds.). Juvenile delinquency in Europe and beyond: An international perspective on key issues and causes. New York: Springer.
Doyle, J. & Lalor, K. (2009). The social care practice placement: A college perspective. In P. Share & K. Lalor (Eds.), Applied social care, 2nd edition. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
Gallagher, C. (2009), Social care and the older person. In P. Share and K. Lalor (Eds.), Applied social care, 2nd edition. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Gallagher, C. (2009), ‘Social practices, moral frameworks and religious values in the lives of older people'. In R. Edmondson and H. Von Kondratowitz (Eds.), Valuing older people: A humanistic approach to ageing. UK: The Policy Press.
Hamilton, C. (2009). Detention: Issues of procedure and substance. In U. Kilkelly (ed.) The ECHR and Irish law. Bristol: Jordans.
Hamilton, C. & Lines, R. (2009). Prisoner voting rights in Ireland. In A. Ewald & B. Rottingham (Eds). Democracy and punishment: International perspectives in criminal disenfranchisement. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hayes, N. & Bradley, S (2009). Right by Children: Children’s Rights and rights-based approaches to policy making in early childhood education and care (Dublin: CSER/DIT).
Kelleher, C. (2009). Minority stress and health: Implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 22(4), 373-379.
Lalor, K. & Share, P. (2009). Understanding social care. In P. Share & K. Lalor (Eds.), Applied social care, 2nd edition. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
Mhic Mhathúna, M. (2009). Borradh: Scéim pleanála teanga don Bhliain 2009-2010. Gaillimh: Comhar Naíonraí na Gaeltachta.
Seymour, M. & Mayock, P. (2009). Ireland. In P. Hadfield, (Ed.), Nightlife and crime. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Seymour M. (2009) (with J. Breen, P. Curry, I .O’Donnell and D. O’Mahony). Young people and self-reported crime and delinquency in Ireland. In J. Junger-Tas, D. Enzmann & I. Marshall (Eds.), International self reported crime and delinquency. Dordrecht: Springer Publishing.
Seymour, M. (2009). Working with homeless people. In P. Share & K. Lalor (Eds.), Applied social care, 2nd edition. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
Share, P. & Lalor, K. (Eds.) (2009). Applied social care, 2nd edition. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Rogan, M. (2009). Prison policy in Ireland: A historical overview. Prison Service Journal.
Rogan, M. (2009). Visiting committees and accountability in the Irish prison system: Some proposals for reform. Dublin University Law Journal. 31, 298-323.
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