Academic Staff

Lecturer

Email: mairead.seymour@tudublin.ie

Tel: 2205473

B.Soc.Sc. (UCD)

MSSc. Criminology (QUB)

PhD (QUB)

PGC. Learning and Teaching (DIT)

Mairéad Seymour is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Law and Social Sciences. She holds degrees in social sciences (BSocSc. UCD), criminal justice management (MSc. QUB), and criminology (PhD QUB) and a postgraduate qualification in third level learning and teaching (PGC. DIT). She was appointed to the position of lecturer in the School in 2003 and to Senior Lecturer in 2008. Previously she worked at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Social for Social and Educational Research (DIT). She has acted as Principal Investigator on a number of funded projects and has undertaken research for the Department of Justice and Equality, the Probation Service, the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, the Irish Research Council (formerly IRCHSS), the Irish Penal Reform Trust and Business in the Community. Her book ‘Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People’ (Routledge 2013)explores the notion of compliance in relation to offender supervision in comparative jurisdictions and from the perspectives of young people and the youth justice professionals who supervise them.

Mairéad currently supervises PhD theses on probation-led conferencing for young offenders, prisoner reintegration, and the perspectives and experiences of parents in the youth justice system. Her research interests encompass youth justice, probation, community supervision, offender compliance, prisoner reintegration, desistance, procedural justice and comparative criminal justice. She welcomes queries from prospective candidates interested in pursuing MPhil or PhD research in these areas.  

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Publications

Seymour, M. (with U. Convery) (2015) ‘Children, Crime and Justice’, in Healy, D., Hamilton, C., Daly, Y. and Butler, M. (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology. Abingdon: Routledge.http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138019430/

Seymour, M. (with Tolan, G.) (2014) ‘Increasing the Potential for Diversion in the Irish Criminal Justice System: The Role of the Garda Síochána Adult Cautioning Scheme’, Irish Journal for Applied Social Studies, 14(1): 60-71. http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/vol14/iss1/7/

Seymour, M. (with C. Kelleher and A. Halpenny) (2014). Promoting the Participation of Seldom Heard Young People: A Review of the Literature on Best Practice Principles. Dublin: Department of Children and Youth Affairs. http://www.dcya.gov.ie/documents/publications/Participation_of_Seldom_Heard_Young_People.pdf

Seymour M. (2013) Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People. Abingdon: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415628426/

Seymour, M. (2013) ‘Homelessness’ in K. Lalor& P. Share (eds.), Applied Social Care:An Introduction for students in Ireland (3rd edition). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.

Seymour M. (2012) ‘The Youth Justice System’ in Hamilton, C., Social Work and Social Care Law. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.

Seymour M. (with S. Freeman) (2010). ‘“Just waiting”: The nature and effect of uncertainty on young people in remand custody in Ireland’. Youth Justice 10 (2): 126-142.

Seymour M. (2009) (with P. Mayock) ‘Ireland’ in P. Hadfield, ed., Nightlife and Crime.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seymour M. (2009) (with J. Breen, U. Manning, I. O’Donnell and D. O’Mahony) ‘The Republic of Ireland’ in J. Junger-Tas, I.H. Marshall, D. Enzmann, M. Killias, M. Steketee and B. Gruszczynska, eds., Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond: An International Perspective on Key Issues and Causes. New York: Springer.

Seymour, M. (with M. Butler) (2008) Children on Remand in Ireland. Dublin: Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.
http://www.dcya.gov.ie/documents/publications/Young_People_on_Remand_Study_261108.pdf

Seymour, M. (2007) ‘Homelessness,’ in Y. Jewkes and J. Bennett, eds., The Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.

Awards

School of Languages, Law and Social Sciences Research Awards (DIT) (2015-16), (2016-17).

Irish Research Council New Foundations Award: Offender Compliance on Community Supervision (2014-15)

Fiosraigh PhD programme, Dublin Institute of Technology (Norma Kennedy) (2014).

IRCHSS Research Development Initiative Scheme: Promoting the Participation of Seldom Heard Young People A Review of the Literature on Best Practice Principles (2010).

Supporting Academic Research Achievement (SARA), Directorate of Research and Enterprise, DIT Fund: Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People (2010).

DIT Research Support Fund: 4^th Irish North-South Criminology Conference (2008).