Rethinking Justice: Alternatives to Custody for Juvenile Sexual Offenders currently before the courts and those that were juveniles at the time of their historical offending.
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October 2023 UCD Conference Programme
8.00 – 9.00 Registration.
9.00 – 9.15 Alternatives to custody, a lot has changed since my time on the bench!
Judge Gillian Hussey. Retired District Court Judge, Ireland.
9.15 – 9.50 Differentiating Rapists’ Actions and the processes of attrition on the way to sentencing.
Prof. David Canter. Applied Social Psychologist. Emeritus Prof University of Liverpool.
9.50 – 10.25 When claims of sexual assault are mistaken or fabricated; the context, causes and impact of false allegations.
Dr. Rosalie Burnett. Research Associate, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. England.
10.25 – 11.00 The effectiveness of the risk assessment of sexual offending behaviours.
Prof. Kevin Browne. Professor of Forensic Psychology & Child Health, Director of Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, School of Medicine,
University of Nottingham. England.
11.00 - 11.15 Break and refreshments.
11.15 – 11.35 Impact of Incarceration on their Children and Families.
Ms. Michele Kerrigan. Director of Care After Prison (CAP). Ireland.
11.35 – 12.10 Understanding the psychosocial impacts of trauma exposure.
Prof. Cherie Armour. Professor of Psychological Trauma and Mental Health in the School of Psychology at Queens University
Belfast Ireland.
12.10 – 12.20 Prevention in the community: How individual and group therapy can empower adults who have committed sexual offences to self-manage risk.
Dr Julie Brown. Psychotherapist and Director of One in Four
12.20 – 12.30 Untangling the young person from their harmful sexual behaviour - a case study.
Ciara Mangan. Psychotherapist with the Prevention Programme One in Four.
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch.
1.30 – 2.00 Need for increased funding to improve the therapeutic approaches in prisons.
Mr. John Lonergan. Former Governor of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. Ireland.
2.00 – 2.30 The impact of sexual violence and prevention strategies
Ms. Shirley Scott. Policy Manager Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
2.30 – 3.00 Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System.
Dr. Charles Larkin - Director of Research at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. Chair of the
Governing Body/Board of Trustees of Technological University Dublin. Vice President and non-executive director at Accounting Technicians Ireland.
3.00 – 3.30 Sentencing child sexual abuse offences: Some problems and issues.
Prof. Thomas O’Malley. Associate Professor of Law, a Senior Counsel and a member of the Inner Bar of Ireland.
3.30 – 4.00 An overview of Oberstown Children Detention Campus.
Mr. Damien Heron. Clinical Director, Oberstown Detention Campus. Ireland.
4.00 – 4.30 Experiences from a law professor to prisoner in the USA.
Prof. Bill Baroni - American politician and law professor.
4.30 – 5.00 Panel Discussion and Closing remarks.