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  • Publication
    The New Punitiveness
    (The Irish Examiner, 2009-03-27)
    Examining the whole spectrum of social, economic, political and cultural relations in late modern society criminologists argue that new ways of thinking and acting about crime issues have been noticeable since the last third of the twentieth century. The ‘new punitiveness’ or the ‘culture of control’, as it is often called, is marked by a sudden and startling reversal of its forerunner ‘penal welfarism’ and with it a growing emphasis on punitive practices and fading interest in the idea of rehabilitation. Central to the new punitiveness is an increased emphasis on imprisonment as a way of dealing with wrongdoers, an intensification of the restrictive aspects of the prison or control experience, and a characterisation of the wrongdoer in increasingly negative and one-dimensional terms.
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    Restorative Justice after Sexual Violence
    (Irish Examiner, 2018-04-13)
    The time has surely come to put innovative justice — as well as major improvements in conventional justice — on to the social and political agenda, says Dr Marie Keenan
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  • Publication
    Our justice system is failing rape and sex assault victims
    (Irish Independent, 2014-12-03)
    We are letting victims of rape and sexual assault down even more now than we were in the past. The reality is that while the reporting of sexual crime to An Garda Síochána increased by over 50% between 2008 – 2012 fewer cases are being prosecuted by the DPP than in the past.
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    Responding to the Murphy Report
    (2009-12)
    As an institution the Catholic Church is an unhealthy organisation, bad for your health in its current form. It drives people who work for it to act in ways that they would not otherwise do I am convinced, and their lives and those of others are ruined in the process. Ordination to priesthood should come with a health warning for those who take this path in life, in Ireland at the very least. Increasingly I find myself standing with individuals who are casualties of the Catholic Church, and they are not only victims of clergy – they are the clergy themselves and religious sisters, and even the odd former bishop, all of whom have been crushed by the institutional practices of an Institution that is out of touch with the mission of its founder.
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