Lecturer

Email: cormac.behan@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 220 5478

Background

PhD: Institute of Criminology, University College Dublin (2009)

MA: Department of Adult and Community Education, NUI, Maynooth (2002)

Higher Diploma: Department of Adult and Community Education NUI, Maynooth (1998)

M. Litt.: Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin (1994)

BA: Departments of History and Politics, University College Dublin (1989)

Publications

Behan, C. (2014) Citizen convicts: Prisoners, politics and the vote. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Behan, C. (forthcoming) ‘No longer a “collateral consequence”: Imprisonment and the reframing of citizenship’, European Journal of Criminology (online advance access available).

Behan, C. (2021) ‘Putting Penal Reform on the Map: Prisoners’ Rights Movements and Penal History’.  Champ Pénal/Penal Field.

Behan, C. (2018) ‘“We are all convicted criminals”? Prisoners, Protest and Penal Politics in the Republic of Ireland’. Journal of Social History, 52(1): 501-26. 

Behan, C. and Kirkham, R. (2016) ‘Monitoring, Inspection and Complaints Adjudication in Prison: The limits of prison accountability frameworks’. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 55(4): 432- 454.

Behan, C. (2015) ‘Punishment, Penal Policy and Citizenship’. Polish Journal of Criminology (1): 45-60.

Behan, C. (2014) 'Embracing and Resisting Prisoner Enfranchisement? A Comparative Analysis of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom'. Irish Probation Journal, 11: 156-176.

Behan, C. (2014) ‘Learning to Escape: Prison Education, Rehabilitation and the Potential for Transformation’. Journal of Prison Education and Re-entry, 1: 20-31.

Behan, C. (2012) ‘“Still Entitled to our Say”: Prisoners’ Perspectives on Politics’. The Howard Journal, 51(1): 16-36.

Behan, C. (2011) ‘“The benefit of personal experience and personal study”: Prisoners and the Politics of Enfranchisement’. The Prison Journal, 91(1): 7-31.

Behan, C. and O’Donnell, I. (2008) ‘Prisoners, Politics and the Polls: Enfranchisement and the Burden of Responsibility’. British Journal of Criminology, 48(3): 319-36.

Behan, C. (2007) ‘Context, Creativity and Critical Reflection: Education in Correctional Institutions’.  Journal of Correctional Education, 58 (2): 157-69.

Book Chapters

Behan, C. (2021) ‘The Prisoners’ Rights Organisation and Penal Reform in the Republic of Ireland’ in F. McCann (ed.), The Carceral Network in Ireland: History, Agency and Resistance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Behan, C. (2019) ‘Rights, Advocacy and Transformation’ in H. Graham, F. McNeill, P. Ugwudike, P. Raynor, F. Taxman and C. Trotter (eds.) Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice. London: Routledge. 

Behan, C. (2017) ‘Prison Education in Europe’ in I Biao. (ed.) Strategic Learning Ideologies in Prison Education Programs. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Behan, C. and Bates-Gaston, J. (2016) ‘Education and Rehabilitation: What Works?’ in D. Healy, C. Hamilton, Y. Daly and M. Butler (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology.  London: Routledge.

Behan, C. (2008: 2nd edn.) ‘From Outside to Inside: Pedagogy Behind Prison Walls’ in R. Wright. (ed.) In the Borderlands: Learning to Teach in Prisons and Alternative Settings. San Bernardino: California State University.

Policy Papers

Behan, C., Sloan, J., Bennett, C., Shapland, J. and Farrall, S. (2016) ‘Justice is more than just criminal justice’: Perspectives on Criminal Justice Institutions and Citizen Participation. London: Howard League for Penal Reform.

Behan, C. (2015) Punishment, prisoners and the franchise. What is Justice? Working Papers: 20/2015. London: Howard League for Penal Reform.

Recent Conference Papers/Presentations

March 2021: Criminal Law Faculty Workshop Series, University of Reims, France

‘Prisoners’ Political Capital’.

April 2020: 14th UN Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Kyoto, Japan ‘Making prison education a factor in social and civic reintegration’ (postponed due to COVID-19)

November 2019: ‘Active Citizenship in European Prisons’ 

Conference on Participation in European Prisons, Brussels Parliament

October 2019: ‘Prison Education in Europe: Philosophy, Geography and Practice’ 

Australasian Corrections Education Association Keynote Address

August 2017: ‘Prisoner Enfranchisement and Penal Politics’

Parnell Summer School, Wicklow

June 2017: ‘Monitoring, Inspection and Complaints Adjudication in Prison: The Limits of Prison Accountability Frameworks’

University of Nottingham Prison Reform Conference

March 2017: ‘“We are all convicted criminals”? Prisoners, Protest and Penal Politics in the Republic of Ireland’

University of Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society Faculty Seminar

July 2016: ‘Prison Education, Active Citizenship and Transformative Learning’

University College London Centre for Education in Criminal Justice System Conference Keynote Address

November 2015: ‘Challenging Confinement: Prisoners’ Rights Movements and Penal Reform’

Irish Prison Education Association Conference Keynote Address

July 2014: ‘Linking Prisons to their Community and Reintegration’

Coping with Crime: British Academy Citizens and Government Seminar Series

Research Interests

• Punishment and Imprisonment
• Penal History
• Comparative Penal Policy
• Deviance and Social Control
• Prisoners’ Rights Movements
• Prison Education

Other

• 2016-22: Editor, Journal of Prison Education and Re-entry
• 2021-22: Chairperson, European Prison Education Association
• Member of the Advisory Panel of Irish Probation Journal
• Peer Reviewer for a range of international journals
• Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom)