1st Irish Penology Symposium
Law Faculty, Griffith College Cork, Friday 18th Nov. 2011
Organisers: Clíodhna Dineen, Head of Law, GCC and Dr. Liam Leonard, IT Sligo
09.00 am: WELCOME & REGISTRATION
Tea/Coffee available all day
09.30 – 11.00 am:
Welocme and Opening Speech:
Clíodnha Dinneen & Liam Leonard
Women with Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland
Elizabeth Craig, University of Ulster
Sentencing in the Children Court: An Evaluation in Light of the Fair Trial Rights of the Child
Sarah Jane Judge, Griffith College Dublin
The Mandatory Death Penalty in a Modern Society
Jacinta Victor John, Griffith College Dublin and TCD
11.30 – 13.00 pm:
What the Literature is saying about Crime and Prisons: The Challenges to Penology and Criminology
Dr. Liam Leonard I.T Sligo & Tatiana Kelly, NUI G
The Universality of Suffrage: A Prisoner’s Right to Vote
Paul Gavin, King’s College London
13.00 – 14.00 pm: LUNCH ON CAMPUS
14.00 – 15.30 pm:
The Irish Innocence Project
David Langwallner, Dean of Law, Griffith College
Contemporary themes in Irish Penal Policy: the Relationship between research and policy
Jane Mulcahy & Liam Herrick, Irish Prison Reform Trust (IPRT)
Towards an understanding of organisational change in the Irish Prison Service
Assistant Chief Officer Jim Howe, Irish Prison Service Training and Development Center, Beladd House, Portlaoise
16.15 – 17.00 pm:
Keynote Speaker – Dr. Ciarán McCullagh, UCC
‘Prisons and the failure to reform’
Closing Speech:
Clíodnha Dinneen & Liam Leonard
Tel: 353 (0) 21/4507027
Email: law@gcc.ie
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