Doing Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ireland: Perspectives From a Peripheral Nation

• Author: Ian D. Marder,Claire Hamilton
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/10439862221138668
• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Date: 01 February 2023
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

2023, Vol. 39(1) 4 –16

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Editorial

Doing Criminology and

Criminal Justice in Ireland:

Perspectives From a

Peripheral Nation

Ian D. Marder1 and Claire Hamilton1

Abstract

This special issue invites authors engaged in cutting-edge research on crime and criminal

justice in the Republic of Ireland to demonstrate Ireland’s global significance in these

fields. Irish criminology is a burgeoning, diverse and outward-looking discipline, with

a rising number of scholars making novel contributions to international debates on

the theoretical and empirical study of crime and criminal justice. Its relatively unique

position as both a Western European democracy and a post-colonial territory means

that Ireland is of equal significance to the Global North and Global South. Moreover,

this growth in local scholarship coincides with changes to criminal justice that should

be of interest to advocates and analysts around the world. With articles on gendered

historical abuses, public attitudes to policing, countering violent extremism, penal

decision-making, penal politics, youth justice and organised crime, the issue brings

this research to a global audience.

Keywords

criminology, criminal justice, Ireland, Hibernian exceptionalism, penality, colonialism,

terrorism and political violence, postcolonial

Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ireland:

Why They Matter for the World

At a recent event on the reunification of Ireland, Liam Neeson opened the proceedings

thus: “Long before anyone can remember, there was a small island on the edge of the

1Maynooth University, Ireland

Corresponding Author:

Ian D. Marder, School of Law and Criminology, New House, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co.

Kildare, Ireland.

Email: ian.marder@mu.ie

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