Geraldine Cleere
Lecturer
Applied Arts
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Geraldine Cleere lecturers in Law and Criminology at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Having completed her undergraduate degree in Law and Business at Waterford Institute of Techology, she studied Law as a postgraduate in University College, Cork. Following on from this she carried out an additional Masters in Law and Criminal Justice at UCC, before going on to undertake a Ph.D. in the area of Criminology from which she graduated in 2014. In addition to lecturing various modules related to Law and Criminology at Waterford Institute of Technology, she is currently supervising two Ph.D. students undertaking research in the field of criminology.
Research Interest
Prison education, Desistance, The sociology of the prison, Prison-based social capital, Legal rights of prisoners and Legal rights awareness among prisoners
