Dr Mary Corcoran

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Dr Mary Corcoran, NCTJ, BA, MA, PhD.

Mary Corcoran lectures in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Criminology at Keele University.   Her current teaching activities are in the areas of women and crime, prisons and penality, and in the ethics of criminal justice practice.
Mary has published a monograph, book chapters and journal articles on power and space in prisons, methodological predicaments in conducting sensitive research in violent societies, the campaign of resistance by women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, and the gaps in post-conflict strategies for demobilising and resettling women political prisoners.

Currently, she is researching voluntary and community sector involvement in criminal justice. Mary’s research focuses on the dynamics of  offender-management policy and practice in the light of commissioning and competition, the impact of policy on emergent penal service markets, the marketisation of criminal justice, and citizenship and participation in the spheres of crime and security.

Teaching

Women and Crime
Prisons and Imprisonment
Ethics of Policing and Criminal Justice

PhD. Supervision:
Jaffe, M. The Samaritan Listener Scheme in the Prison Community: Survival, Solidarity and Citizenship (with S. Karstedt).

Research

Publications: Book

(2006)  Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1998, Willan, Cullompton.

Peer reviewed articles:

(2008) ‘What does government want from the penal voluntary sector?’, Criminal Justice Matters, (forthcoming: March 2008)

(2007)  ‘Normalisation and its discontents: constructing the “irreconcilable” female political prisoner in Northern Ireland’, British Journal of Criminology (43) 3, 405-422.

Book chapters:

(2006) ‘Talking about resistance’: women political prisoners and the dynamics of prison conflict, Northern Ireland’ in A. Barton, K. Corteen and D. Scott and D. Whyte (eds.), Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Criminology, Willan, Cullompton.

(2005) ‘Researching women political prisoners in Northern Ireland: ethnographic problems and negotiations’ in T. Skinner, M. Hester and E. Malos Researching Women and Violence, Willan, Cullompton.

(2004) ‘‘We just had to be stronger’: the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland’, in M. Ward and L. Ryan (eds.), Irish Women and Nationalism, Irish Academic Press, Dublin.

(1999) ‘Mapping carceral space’: territorialisation, conflict and control in Northern Ireland’s women’s prisons in S. Brewster et al., (eds.), Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender and Space, Routledge, London.

Other publications:

 (2003) Widening definitions of ‘employability’ in non-vocational degrees.  Centre for Learning and Teaching: Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP), University of Birmingham/LTSN.

(2003) review of ‘Crime control in Ireland: the politics of intolerance’ by I. O’ Donnell and E. O’ Sullivan (2001), Irish Journal of Sociology, (12) 2.

 (2002) ‘Adapting problem based learning to non-vocational modules; some preliminary insights’, in LTA Press, Liverpool John Moores University (with N. D. Matthews, J. Nicholls and T. Moylan).

(2001) review ‘Unfinished business: state killings and the quest for truth’ by B. Rolston and M. Gilmartin (2000), Irish Studies Review, (9) 1.

(2000) review ‘Shattering silence: women, nationalism and political subjectivity in Northern Ireland’ by B. Aretxaga, Irish Studies Review, (8) 3.

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