Mairéad Seymour
Senior Lecturer
Languages, Law and Social Sciences.
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
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). 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.
Research Interest
Youth justice, probation, community supervision, offender compliance, prisoner reintegration, desistance, procedural justice and comparative criminal justice.
Publications
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Seymour M. (2013) Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People. Abingdon: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415628426/
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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/
