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Louise Brangan Editor & Author

Lynsey Black is Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Law, Maynooth University. Her research interests include gender and punishment, the death penalty, and historical and postcolonial criminology.

Louise Brangan is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Criminology at the University of Strathclyde. Her research focuses on penal culture, social history of punishment, penal politics, and the comparative sociology of punishment.

Deirdre Healy is Director of the UCD Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. Her research interests include desistance from crime, community sanctions, and victimisation.