DIRECTOR, UCD INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY
Professor Ian O'Donnell MA, MPhil, PhD, LLD. Before taking up a research position at the UCD Institute of Criminology, Ian O'Donnell was Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (1997-2000); Research Officer at the Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research and Fellow of Linacre College (1992-1997); and Research Assistant at the University of London (1989-1992).

He sat as a magistrate on the Oxford Bench and was a member of the Board of Visitors at Pentonville Prison in London. Ian is also a member of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation.

Research Interests include Criminal Justice Policy, Sentencing, Penal Reform, Imprisonment, History of Crime and Punishment, Violence

Ph.D Supervision
Professor O'Donnell welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students.

UCD's new Research Management System includes a list of publications for Professor O'Donnell

Dr Deirdre Healy is an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the UCD Institute of Criminology.  She obtained her primary degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin and then completed her doctorate at the UCD Institute of Criminology.  Her thesis explored the influence of psychological, social and criminal justice factors on desistance from crime.  She subsequently moved to NUI Galway to work on a study of attrition in rape cases.  Following this, she was employed as a research officer in the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield on the “Sheffield Pathways out of Crime Study.”  In 2008, she returned to UCD to take up a two-year post-doctoral fellowship, during which, she will conduct the Crime, Desistance and Reintegration Study, which involves a long-term follow-up of the sample interviewed for her doctoral research.  The study will provide a detailed account of pathways to, and from, desistance and aims to identify the psychological and social processes involved in these transitions.  The project constitutes the second phase of the first prospective study of desistance in Ireland and will be one of a small number of international studies of this kind.  Deirdre is also writing a book The Dynamics of Desistance: Charting Pathways through Change (Willan Publishing, forthcoming).

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