Professor Denis Bracken
Denis Bracken is Professor of Social Work at the
Dr Inmaculada Ramos
Inmaculada
Ramos graduated in the University of Granada and completed there her Ph.D.
studies in 1998. Afer two years as Research Fellow in Institute Max-Planck for
International and Comparative Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany), she was appointed
to a lectureship in the Law Faculty of the University of Granada in 2000 and
promoted to Associated Professor in 2004.
She
lectures in General Part of Criminal law and Labor Criminal Law to
undergraduate students and in European Criminal law and Criminal Protection of
Children in two Master Degree Courses at the University of Granada. She has also lectured as invited Professor
in University of Bayreuth (Gemany), Universidad Pontificia de Lima (Peru),
Universidad El Litoral (Argentina) and in the Sommer Courses organized by the
University of Alberta (Canada) in Granada.
Research
Her primary research interests are in principles
of criminal law, elements of crime, criminal protection of children and
European criminal law.
She is the author of The crime of the misuse of judicial
power (2000), co-author of Criminal Law. General Part (2002), Criminal
Law. Special Part: a study through the cases (2008) and “Principles
of Criminal Law (2010). She has
published as well a number of articles and book chapters concerning the criminal legality principle, mental elements of crime, undue
delays in criminal proceedings, sexual offences and European criminal law,
focusing on the transposition of European criminal norms to Spanish legal
order.
She has participated in several
Research Projects with public funding and coordinate the research Project The European Constitution and Criminal Law. She is member of
the Research Group Practical approach to criminal law
problems, funded by
the Andalucia Goverment, and member of
the Spanish Criminal Policy Studies Group.
Currently she is on leave from the
University of Granada and is a visiting researcher at the Institute of
Criminology of the School of Law of UCD
where she is conducting a research about legal protection of children against
sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.
2009
Dr Layla Skinns
The Institute of Criminology hosted Dr Layla Skinns. Layla is the Adrian Socio-Legal Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, as well as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. She is the Principal researcher on a feasibility study comparing police detention in England and Wales with New York State, New South Wales and Ireland funded by a small research grant from the British Academy.
'Plural policing and the police custody process in England and Wales'
Karyn Kenny J.D
In February & March 2009 the UCD Institute of Criminology hosted a visit from Karyn Kenny J.D. From 2000 to 2007 Karyn served as an Assistant Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, where she prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including complex fraud, human trafficking and cybercrime. In 2006, she was selected as a Fulbright Scholar and taught Comparative American and Irish Constitutional Law and the American Criminal Justice System to law students in the Baltics. In 2008, as a Supreme Court Fellow with the United States Supreme Court, Karyn was assigned to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency which establishes sentencing policies and strategies for the U.S. Federal courts. She has recently taken a new position with the World Bank working on judicial reform projects with Serbia and Croatia to assist them in their EU accession goals. Karyn's research interest in Ireland lies in the analysis of Ireland's Court Poor Box System in relation to American sentencing reform methods regarding alternatives to incarceration.
' Lessons from Ireland's court poor box system: Rethinking America's alternatives to incaceration reform'
