Speakers

We are very pleased to announce that our Plenary Speaker is Professor Ian O’Donnell, of University College Dublin. Ian will be delivering his plenary lecture under the title, ‘Criminology in Ireland: A Discipline on the Move‘.

Professor Eamonn Carrabine and Dr Claire Hamilton will participate in the evening roundtable event to be held in Trinity College Dublin. This event will include a reflection on the research presented throughout the conference, and on the process of engaging in criminological theory and undertaking research. The event will be chaired by Ivana Bacik and will be followed by a wine reception.

Speaker Bios:

Professor Ian O’Donnell

Ian O’Donnell joined the School of Law at UCD in 2000 and became Professor of Criminology in 2006. He completed a six-year term as Director of the UCD Institute of Criminology in December 2010. Previously, Ian was Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (1997-2000), Research Officer at the Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research (1992-1997), and Research Assistant at the University of London (1989-1992). During his time in England he served as a member of the Board of Visitors for HMP Pentonville and as a Magistrate on the Oxford bench. Professor O’Donnell is an Adjunct Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford; a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society; a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; and a Member of the Academia Europaea. Ian O’Donnell’s work has included the ground-breaking Irish criminological work Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland (Kilcommins et al 2004) as well as the illuminating and historically significant work Coercive Confinement: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents (O’Donnell and O’Sullivan 2012). His most recent publication, Prisoners, Solitude and Time (2014), provides a comprehensive distillation of the elemental concepts of solitude and time in relation to punishment. Drawing on a wide range of sources including prisoner narratives, academic work, field visits and official publications, among others, Ian O’Donnell seeks to present a new understanding of the critical, yet often overlooked, concepts of solitude and time, and how these have been experienced by those undergoing punishment.

Senator Ivana Bacik

Ivana Bacik is the Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology (1996), a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a practising Barrister. Ivana is the Law Director of the Law and Political Science degree, in the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. She has a Law degree from Trinity College Dublin and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. She practises as a barrister, and teaches courses in Criminal law; Criminology and Penology at Trinity. Her research interests include criminal law and criminology, constitutional law, feminist theories and law, human rights and equality issues in law. She is a Senator for Dublin University. Her research interests include criminal law and criminology, constitutional law, feminist theories and law, human rights and equality issues in law.

Professor Eamonn Carrabine

Professor Carrabine joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex in 1998. He has published broadly in criminology and sociology and currently serves as an editor on the British Journal of Criminology, the international advisory editorial board of Crime, Media, Culture and an associate editor of Theoretical Criminology. He is currently working on a new book on Crime and Social Theory, which will concentrate on how aspects of social theory illuminate key problems in criminology. This work will aim to advance current understandings of crime, order and security so that convincing explanations of complex social processes can be generated. Professor Carrabine is also, in collaboration with Dr Chrissie Rogers at Anglia Ruskin University, devising a research project on how prisoners with learning disabilities experience imprisonment.

Building on recent publications, such as his earlier work Crime, Culture and the Media (2008), Professor Carrabine is also working on a book exploring The Iconography of Punishment. The work will focus on how punishment has been represented in the literary and visual arts and it will intervene in the recent turn to cultural analyses in the sociology of punishment. Work from this project has already been published in The Prison Service Journal, and a more extended treatment of the issues is covered in my chapter on ‘Telling Prison Stories’ in an edited collection on The Arts of Imprisonment, while the distinctive ethical problems posed by visual criminology are addressed in an article for the British Journal of Criminology, which was awarded the Radzinowicz prize for 2012 by the journal.

Dr Claire Hamilton, NUI Maynooth

Claire Hamilton practised as a barrister in criminal law until 2004 when she became a full time academic. Prior to joining Maynooth University she worked for several years as a lecturer in criminology in Dublin Institute of Technology and Queen’s University Belfast. She has published widely in various national and international legal and criminological journals including the British Journal of Criminology, the European Journal of Criminology and the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. She is the author of three books and is currently working (with her fellow co-editors) on an edited collection on Irish criminology to be published by Routledge in 2015. She is also currently writing up comparative research into counter-terrorism which was conducted in the US as a recipient of a Fulbright-Schuman award co-funded by the Fulbright Commission and the European Commission. She is currently a member of the Social Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, the Advisory Board of the Irish Innocence Project and the Executive Committee of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. She is also the Secretary of the Irish Association of Law Teachers.