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School of Sociology & Criminology

 

Criminology

Dr Mary Corcoran

Title: Lecturer in Criminology
Phone: (+44) 01782 7 33104
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Location: CBB 1.035
Role: Careers Liaison Officer
Contacting me: Office Hours - Weds 1.30 - 2.15 and Thurs 9-10
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Mary Corcoran joined the Criminology programme at Keele University in September 2005. She has published a monograph on imprisonment and resistance of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, as well as journal articles in the ‘British Journal of Criminology’ and ‘Criminal Justice Matters’, and chapters in edited collections.

2011-14  The voluntary sector role in promoting desistance through offender mentoring. ESRC CASE Studentship.

2011-12 The third sector role in criminal justice, with Hucklesby (Leeds) and Mills (Southampton).  ESRC Research Seminar series.

2011  The Magistracy in the 21st Century: seminar series (with Godfrey & Wells).  Magistrates Association.

2010-11  Evaluation of Chepstow House, Hanley (with Worrall & Fox).

Selected Publications

  • CORCORAN M. 2011. Dilemmas of institutionalisation of the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales,. Critical Social Policy, vol. 31(1), 30-52. doi> link>
  • CORCORAN M. 2010. Snakes and Ladders: circuits of penal reform for women under New Labour. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 22(2), 233-251.
  • CORCORAN M. 2008. What does government want from the penal voluntary sector?. Criminal Justice Matters, vol. 77(1), 36-38. link>
  • CORCORAN MS. 2007. Normalization and its Discontents: Constructing the ‘Irreconcilable' Female Political Prisoner in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Criminology, vol. 47(3), 405-422. doi>
  • CORCORAN MS. 2006. Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999. Willan Publishing.

Full Publications List show

Books

  • CORCORAN MS. 2006. Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999. Willan Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • CORCORAN M. 2011. Dilemmas of institutionalisation of the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales,. Critical Social Policy, vol. 31(1), 30-52. doi> link>
  • CORCORAN M. 2010. Snakes and Ladders: circuits of penal reform for women under New Labour. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 22(2), 233-251.
  • CORCORAN M. 2008. What does government want from the penal voluntary sector?. Criminal Justice Matters, vol. 77(1), 36-38. link>
  • CORCORAN MS. 2007. Normalization and its Discontents: Constructing the ‘Irreconcilable' Female Political Prisoner in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Criminology, vol. 47(3), 405-422. doi>
  • CORCORAN M. Bringing the penal voluntary sector to market. Criminal Justice Matters, vol. 77(1), 32-33. link>

Chapters

  • CORCORAN MS. 2006. 'Talking about resistance' : women political prisoners and the dynamics of prison conflict, Northern Ireland. In Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Criminology. Barton A, Corteen K, Scott D, Whyte D (Eds.). Willan Publishing.
  • CORCORAN MS. 2005. Researching women political prisoners in Northern Ireland : ethnographic problems and negotiations. In Researching Gender and Violence. Skinner T, Malos E, Hester M (Eds.). Willan Publishing .

Current undergraduate teaching:

  • Prisons and Imprisonment
  • Murder
  • Crime and Psychology
  • Punishment beyond the Popular Imagination
  • Crime and Criminal Justice Policy
  • Contemporary Issues in Criminology
  • Working for Justice

Postgraduate teaching:

  • MA in Ethics of Policing and Criminal Justice
  • MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice


PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising PhD studies on the Listener programme in English prisons, Voluntary sector support for trafficked women, and women's resettlement following release from prison.  Proposals on gender and punishment, imprisonment, voluntary and community activity in criminal justice, or penal theory are welcome.