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8 - Criminology Matters - Host Rachel Killean talks to Eithne Dowds about her work on conceptualisations of rape under international law. Using a feminist methodology, Eithne discusses the nuances of consent and coercion, considering the potential of  'constructive force' to provide a framework for understanding rape in a global context. Find out more about Eithne's work  in her recent article with the Modern Law Review: E. Dowds, ‘Towards a contextual definition of rape: Consent, coercion and constructive Force’ (2019) Modern Law Review. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2230.12461   See Eithne's upcoming book here: E. Dowds, Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent (Hart forthcoming):  https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/feminist-engagement-with-international-criminal-law-9781509921898/

7 - Criminology Matters - In this podcast co-host Gillian talks to Professor Phil Scraton about the harms of imprisonment and prison abolition.

This entails an examination of issues of decarceration - decreasing existing rates of criminalisation and imprisonment. They also discuss the transformative justice dimensions of prison abolition, which sees building of community responses to harms that occur in society, putting in place the building blocks for transformative social change.

Phil's work can be found here: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/phil-scraton/publications/

In this podcast co-host Gillian talks to Professor Phil Scraton about the harms of imprisonment and prison abolition. This entails an examination of issues of decarceration - decreasing existing rates of criminalisation and imprisonment. They also discuss the transformative justice dimensions of prison abolition, which sees building of community responses to harms that occur in society, putting in place the building blocks for transformative social change.

Phil's work can be found here: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/phil-scraton/publications/

Dr Luke Moffett talks to Dr Elisa Novic from Advocats Sans Frontièrs about the challenges and developments with regard to victim participation in the prosecution of international crimes.

Victim participation is a relatively recent development within international criminal justice, being introduced in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. However, given the scale of international crimes that can involve thousands of victims, affording them a procedure to participate meaningfully and effectively in practice against an individual perpetrator is challenging at the international and domestic level.

This podcast discusses the challenges and developments with regard to victim participation in the prosecution of international crimes.

Dr Elisa Novic is the Transitional Justice and Business and Human Rights Expert in Avocats Sans Frontières, she is author of the book 'The Concept of Cultural Genocide: An International Law Perspective', published by Oxford University Press (2016) and works with a number of civil society and victim organisations on the issue of participation in a number of countries.

ASF has recently published a briefing on victim participation at the Ugandan International Crimes Division here: https://www.asf.be/blog/2019/09/16/observations-et-reflexions-sur-la-participation-des-victimes-en-ouganda/   Dr Luke Moffett is a senior lecturer in the school and author of the book 'Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court', by Routledge (2014).

6 - Criminology Matters - Co-host Gillian McNaull talks to SSESW NINE MRes student, Angela Rogan about her research and activism in the area of corporate pharmaceutical crime.

In this episode, Angela examines the gendered nature of medical implant harms against female reproductive systems and discusses her own experiences with the Essure Device and the radical activism this has provoked. Her research examines women's experiences of pharmaceutical reproductive harms in the context of gendered power dynamics in society, using a Foucaultian perspective.   Angela's UG paper on this topic was Highly Commended in The Global Undergraduate Awards (UA), the world’s largest academic awards programme.

Her paper, A Fusion of Feminism and Foucault to Fight Pharmaceutical Crime, was assessed by an international panel of expert judges and was ranked in the top 10% of 4,887 submissions from over 300 global universities:https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ssesw/Discover/News/Archive/GlobalAwardCommendationforSSESWStudent.html

5 - Criminology Matters - Rachel Killean talks to Dr. Amanda Kramer about her recent IHREC/NIHRC research with Rachael Dickson and Anni Pues on the potential impact of Brexit on Criminal Justice on the Island of Ireland.

The research focuses on justice and security cooperation measures across five areas including the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), policing and prosecution cooperation, and data sharing tools such as the European Criminal Records Information System and Passenger Name Records. The report has a particular focus on the human rights implications of potential changes in justice arrangements.

They discuss the risk of justice and security vulnerabilities, as arrangements for justice are made post-Brexit.

http://www.nihrc.org/uploads/publications/Evolving_Justice_Arrangements_Post_Brexit_FA.pdf

Amanda Kramer PURE Biography https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/amanda-kramer

4 - Criminology Matters - Paul Gallagher, PhD researcher in the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s, and Dr Sarah Jankowitz, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, discuss the complex concept of victimhood.

Sarah begins with an overview of how victimhood as a concept is socially constructed, and discusses the implications of the so-called ‘ideal victim’ image for how society responds to victims’ needs.

Paul then shares his own experiences of violence during the Northern Ireland conflict and how he encounters many of the paradoxes of victimhood in his advocacy work as part of the campaign for a pension for those severely injured as a result of the conflict and on the Victims and Survivors Forum.

Dr Sara Jankowitz PURE profile

http://wavetraumacentre.org.uk

3 - Criminology Matters - In this podcast Gillian talks to Dr John Topping from SSESW about his recent event - Patten 20 years on: Young People, Policing and Stop and Search. http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/patten-20-years-on-young-people-policing-and-stop-and-search/They discuss the significance and implications of NI's disproportionate and rising use of stop and search - which is used to little effect. They ask, what are the tensions of policing in NI and what promise do alternative community restorative justice mechanisms hold?https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/sep/04/stop-and-search-northern-ireland-psni

Find out more about the series on our blog.

2 - Criminology Matters - Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden and Dr Elizabeth Agnew speak about their individual research projects exploring young people and harmful sexual behaviour (HSB).

Together they set out some of the key challenges in defining, conceptualising and responding to HSB among young people.

To find out more follow Anne-Marie McAlinden

https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/annemarie-mcalinden(e6193a8e-9011-4be7-85e0-79c3ea131d38).html

and Elizabeth Agnew https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/elizabeth-agnew(56d451ef-598b-43b3-930d-76175bc221ba).html

For further reading see:

A.-M. McAlinden (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2018): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/children-as-risk/43C59B8F7127F34329DD5F2815802FD8

QPOL blog:   http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/sexual-exploitation-abuse-children-young-people-normal-risky-harmful/

Conversation piece: https://theconversation.com/teenage-sexting-were-letting-young-people-down-by-not-talking-about-it-107054

L. Ashurst and A.-M. McAlinden (2015), ‘Young People, Peer-to-Peer Grooming and Sexual Offending: Understanding and Responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviour within a Social Media Society’, Probation Journal 62(4): 374-388.

1 - Criminology Matters: A criminology podcast series in conjunction with Lawpod - Gillian McNaull interviews Graham Ellison and Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill on their recent report.

In this episode Gillian McNaull interviews Graham Ellison and Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill on their recent report: – ‘A review of the criminalisation of paying for sexual services in Northern Ireland’. They set out the context and scope of sex work in Northern Ireland before implementation of the Nordic Model which criminalises the purchase of sexual services, and discuss their findings of its impact upon sex workers, their safety, and conviction rates. Find the report here: https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/justice/report-criminalisation-paying-for-sex.pdf.

Follow the work of Graham https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/graham-ellison(bb41ac14-2a33-4099-818a-6d1dedd5214b).html and Caoimhe https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/caoimhe-ni-dhonaill(101f7d1d-02dc-46ff-bd3b-9f8747cf38ff).html

Find out more about the series on our blog.