Deirdre Healy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Healy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0782-2758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mind the gap
Unnesting the Matryoshka Doll
Understanding penal decision-making has become a central concern of criminologists over recent decades. Although scholars acknowledge the complex, multi-faceted, and contextual nature of penal decision-making, many rely on a single level of analysis to study the process. There is a rich literature on the socio-political, organizational, and individual context of decision-making, but few studies consider the impact of multiple influences simultane…
Beyond rhetoric
Understanding key trends within the penal field has become a core preoccupation of criminologists in recent decades. However, critical analyses of the emplotment of narratives, or how narratives themselves are constructed and move through the criminal justice system, can be overlooked, a gap that this article aims to address. Drawing on a range of case studies across the criminological literature, the article aims to build on this work by interro…
Theorizing the drop in white-collar crime prosecutions
This article theorizes prosecutorial decision-making using an ecological model which proposes that prosecutorial outcomes are shaped by four inter-related and intersecting systems: (a) macro-level, or societal, factors such as crime rates (b) meso- and exo-level factors, such as organisational culture, (c) micro-level factors, such as interactions between prosecutors, and (d) individual-level factors, such as victim and perpetrator characteristic…
Réimaginer la réinsertion sociale
Les recherches portant sur la réinsertion sociale et le désistement ont coexisté jusqu’ici dans une mésalliance. Les tensions entre les deux domaines pourraient être dues aux différentes perspectives théoriques mises en avant pour expliquer les processus de changement. Traditionnellement, les chercheurs en réinsertion sociale s’intéressent aux effets des interventions offertes à l’intérieur du système de justice pénale, ceux qui s’intéressent au …
From Celtic Tiger to Celtic Phoenix
It is widely believed that anomic conditions increase crime rates but empirical tests have produced mixed results. This may be partly due to a failure by researchers to take account of local socio-cultural conditions. This article aims to contribute to knowledge in this area by providing an in-depth qualitative analysis of the relationship between anomie and crime in a single jurisdiction, namely Ireland, which represents an interesting case stud…
The Dynamics of Desistance
It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute to this nascent area of inquiry by providing a phenomenological account of the psychosocial processes involved in desistance from crime. Drawing on a variety of methods, including in-depth intervi…
Lives and spaces
The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and dismissed as unimportant or worse as ‘an easy option’. This article reviews two different studies in England and Ireland which utilized an innovative technique, Photovoice, to foreground the experiences of probationers on their journey towards desistance. The difficulties they face such as stigma, social judgement and exclusion are explored as well as their need f…
Hidden voices
Probation practice, past and present, is under-researched in Ireland, with limited attention paid to the personal accounts of the people of probation such as administrators, probation officers, clients and rehabilitation workers. This article presents findings from the first phase of a project which aims to construct a comprehensive and multi-faceted historical account of probation practice in Ireland from the perspective of core stakeholders. It…
The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology
Becoming a Desister
Journal Article Becoming a Desister: Exploring the Role of Agency, Coping and Imagination in the Construction of a New Self Get access Deirdre Healy Deirdre Healy * *Deirdre Healy, UCD Institute of Criminology, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 5, Septem…
Changing fate? Agency and the desistance process
There is a significant conceptual divide between criminological theories that treat offenders as rational agents who freely choose their actions and those that portray offenders as individuals whose behaviour is determined by external forces. Recently, research into desistance from crime has produced a more complex and nuanced account of crime causation which acknowledges the interplay between agency and structure. Yet, while the concept of agenc…
Advise, Assist and Befriend
An important step on the journey towards desistance involves the reintegration of ex‐offenders into their communities. In order to desist fully, individuals must gain access to new social resources, overcome existing problems and ‘knife off’ their criminal pasts. They must also find ways to make amends for the harm they have caused. Yet, the reality is that many ex‐offenders continue to experience high levels of social marginalization and low lev…
Changing fate? Agency and the desistance process
There is a significant conceptual divide between criminological theories that treat offenders as rational agents who freely choose their actions and those that portray offenders as individuals whose behaviour is determined by external forces. Recently, research into desistance from crime has produced a more complex and nuanced account of crime causation which acknowledges the interplay between agency and structure. Yet, while the concept of agenc…
Becoming a Desister
Journal Article Becoming a Desister: Exploring the Role of Agency, Coping and Imagination in the Construction of a New Self Get access Deirdre Healy Deirdre Healy * *Deirdre Healy, UCD Institute of Criminology, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 5, Septem…
Lives and spaces
The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and dismissed as unimportant or worse as ‘an easy option’. This article reviews two different studies in England and Ireland which utilized an innovative technique, Photovoice, to foreground the experiences of probationers on their journey towards desistance. The difficulties they face such as stigma, social judgement and exclusion are explored as well as their need f…
Advise, Assist and Befriend
An important step on the journey towards desistance involves the reintegration of ex‐offenders into their communities. In order to desist fully, individuals must gain access to new social resources, overcome existing problems and ‘knife off’ their criminal pasts. They must also find ways to make amends for the harm they have caused. Yet, the reality is that many ex‐offenders continue to experience high levels of social marginalization and low lev…
Theorizing the drop in white-collar crime prosecutions
This article theorizes prosecutorial decision-making using an ecological model which proposes that prosecutorial outcomes are shaped by four inter-related and intersecting systems: (a) macro-level, or societal, factors such as crime rates (b) meso- and exo-level factors, such as organisational culture, (c) micro-level factors, such as interactions between prosecutors, and (d) individual-level factors, such as victim and perpetrator characteristic…
From Celtic Tiger to Celtic Phoenix
It is widely believed that anomic conditions increase crime rates but empirical tests have produced mixed results. This may be partly due to a failure by researchers to take account of local socio-cultural conditions. This article aims to contribute to knowledge in this area by providing an in-depth qualitative analysis of the relationship between anomie and crime in a single jurisdiction, namely Ireland, which represents an interesting case stud…
Hidden voices
Probation practice, past and present, is under-researched in Ireland, with limited attention paid to the personal accounts of the people of probation such as administrators, probation officers, clients and rehabilitation workers. This article presents findings from the first phase of a project which aims to construct a comprehensive and multi-faceted historical account of probation practice in Ireland from the perspective of core stakeholders. It…
Advise, Assist and Befriend
An important step on the journey towards desistance involves the reintegration of ex‐offenders into their communities. In order to desist fully, individuals must gain access to new social resources, overcome existing problems and ‘knife off’ their criminal pasts. They must also find ways to make amends for the harm they have caused. Yet, the reality is that many ex‐offenders continue to experience high levels of social marginalization and low lev…
Changing fate? Agency and the desistance process
There is a significant conceptual divide between criminological theories that treat offenders as rational agents who freely choose their actions and those that portray offenders as individuals whose behaviour is determined by external forces. Recently, research into desistance from crime has produced a more complex and nuanced account of crime causation which acknowledges the interplay between agency and structure. Yet, while the concept of agenc…
Becoming a Desister
Journal Article Becoming a Desister: Exploring the Role of Agency, Coping and Imagination in the Construction of a New Self Get access Deirdre Healy Deirdre Healy * *Deirdre Healy, UCD Institute of Criminology, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 54, Issue 5, Septem…
The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology
The Dynamics of Desistance
It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute to this nascent area of inquiry by providing a phenomenological account of the psychosocial processes involved in desistance from crime. Drawing on a variety of methods, including in-depth intervi…
Lives and spaces
The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and dismissed as unimportant or worse as ‘an easy option’. This article reviews two different studies in England and Ireland which utilized an innovative technique, Photovoice, to foreground the experiences of probationers on their journey towards desistance. The difficulties they face such as stigma, social judgement and exclusion are explored as well as their need f…
Hidden voices
Probation practice, past and present, is under-researched in Ireland, with limited attention paid to the personal accounts of the people of probation such as administrators, probation officers, clients and rehabilitation workers. This article presents findings from the first phase of a project which aims to construct a comprehensive and multi-faceted historical account of probation practice in Ireland from the perspective of core stakeholders. It…
Theorizing the drop in white-collar crime prosecutions
This article theorizes prosecutorial decision-making using an ecological model which proposes that prosecutorial outcomes are shaped by four inter-related and intersecting systems: (a) macro-level, or societal, factors such as crime rates (b) meso- and exo-level factors, such as organisational culture, (c) micro-level factors, such as interactions between prosecutors, and (d) individual-level factors, such as victim and perpetrator characteristic…
Réimaginer la réinsertion sociale
Les recherches portant sur la réinsertion sociale et le désistement ont coexisté jusqu’ici dans une mésalliance. Les tensions entre les deux domaines pourraient être dues aux différentes perspectives théoriques mises en avant pour expliquer les processus de changement. Traditionnellement, les chercheurs en réinsertion sociale s’intéressent aux effets des interventions offertes à l’intérieur du système de justice pénale, ceux qui s’intéressent au …
From Celtic Tiger to Celtic Phoenix
It is widely believed that anomic conditions increase crime rates but empirical tests have produced mixed results. This may be partly due to a failure by researchers to take account of local socio-cultural conditions. This article aims to contribute to knowledge in this area by providing an in-depth qualitative analysis of the relationship between anomie and crime in a single jurisdiction, namely Ireland, which represents an interesting case stud…
Beyond rhetoric
Understanding key trends within the penal field has become a core preoccupation of criminologists in recent decades. However, critical analyses of the emplotment of narratives, or how narratives themselves are constructed and move through the criminal justice system, can be overlooked, a gap that this article aims to address. Drawing on a range of case studies across the criminological literature, the article aims to build on this work by interro…
Unnesting the Matryoshka Doll
Understanding penal decision-making has become a central concern of criminologists over recent decades. Although scholars acknowledge the complex, multi-faceted, and contextual nature of penal decision-making, many rely on a single level of analysis to study the process. There is a rich literature on the socio-political, organizational, and individual context of decision-making, but few studies consider the impact of multiple influences simultane…
Mind the gap
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (5 works)