Women in the Criminal Justice System – Report Launch – Irish Criminology Research Network

The Association of Criminal Justice Research and Development (ACJRD) launched its conference report on Women in the Criminal Justice System in Dublin yesterday. The report contains papers written by Kathleen O’Toole, the Chief Inspector of the Garda Siochana Inspectorate, Professor Lorraine Gelsthorpe of the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge; Eimear Fisher, Director of Cosc and Dr Azrini Wahidin, Queen’s University Belfast. Also included are papers from Faith Gordon (QUB), Dr Mary O’Rawe, University of Ulster; Jean O’Neill, PBNI and Dr Paula Mayock and Sarah Sheridan of Trinity College Dublin.

Media coverage on the report can be accessed here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0217/1224290024642.html

http://www.thejournal.ie/media-focus-on-murders-by-women-according-to-report-2011-02/

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/murder-victims-link-to-domestic-violence-145527.html

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/jailed-women-have-been-homeless-abused-145525.html