Mary Corcoran
Biographic Data
| ID | 96526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Corcoran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Corcoran |
| SIGNATURE | CORCORAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8661-3147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Generative Justice: Beyond Crime and Punishment
Examining human-animal interactions and their effect on multidimensional frailty in later life: A scoping review
This scoping review sought to compile outcomes associated with any human-animal interaction study regarding adults aged 50 and older in any living context and concerning a multidimensional (i.e., physical, psychological, cognitive, and social) perspective of frailty. Despite our best attempts at incorporating the broadest inclusion criteria possible, only four articles were relevant to this review. Participants across the included studies were ru…
Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated ‘covid-corruption’ in the United Kingdom: Populizm, zarządzanie skandalem i facylitowana przez państwo „korupcja covidowa” w Wielkiej Brytanii
The pandemic presented a uniquely unrestricted bonanza in many countries for opportunistic profitmaking at the public expense. In the United Kingdom, this took the form of collusion between senior political figures and business associates in purchasing medical supplies which, allied to the suspension of procurement governance, led to irregular, even fraudulent, contracting practices. Analyses of corruption often stress the combination of system a…
Finding the Eye of the Octopus: The Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales
This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) – as its case study. The article shows how TR embodied a policy and set of practices that effectively undermined both institutional and political forms of scrutiny. Actions informed by neoliberal po…
Learning health systems from an academic perspective: Establishing a collaboratory within a school of medicine and health sciences
Learning Health Systems (LHSs) seek continuous improvement through the translation and integration of internally and externally generated knowledge across stakeholders within and external to the organization, yet current approaches are primarily described from the healthcare delivery perspective, leaving teaching and research responsibilities underexposed. Academic medical centers offer a unique perspective on LHSs because their mission includes …
Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice
Criminal justice used to be thought of as a field autonomous from politics and the economy, with the management of crime and punishment being seen as essentially the responsibility of government. However, in recent decades, policies have been adopted which blur the institutional boundaries and functions of the public sector with those of for-profit and civil society interests in many parts of the penal/welfare complex. The impact of these develop…
Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice
This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, il…
Spectacular suffering: Transgressive performance in penal activism
The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the established claim that bodily suffering comprises a core matter of humanitarian campaigning. However, if ‘spectacular suffering’ has predominantly been discussed as a visual experience, this article examine…
Reporting on domestic violence in the Irish media: An exploratory study of journalists’ perceptions and practices
Media representations of domestic violence continue to be problematic. Few studies engage with journalists to understand how and why problematic representations are produced and endure. This research addresses that gap by exploring the challenges to journalists of reporting domestic violence. The key findings are that sources, conventions, and institutional constraints all constitute challenges to accurate reporting. Journalists note that police …
The Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales: Adaptation to Unsettlement and Austerity
This article draws on some findings from research which investigated penal voluntary sector adaptation to the mixed market in criminal justice services. The article firstly reprises the main trends for aligning state relationships with the voluntary sector from the 1980s to the present. We then outline some findings about adaptive experiences, situations and practices of the voluntary sector in criminal justice resettlement in the light of consid…
The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice
The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together le
Out of Order
This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was notable as much because of its longevity as the radical aspe…
Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture in Abu Ghraib. By Ryan Ashley Caldwell (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, ix + 217pp. 55.00)
Journal Article Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture in Abu Ghraib. By Ryan Ashley Caldwell (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, ix + 217pp. £55.00) Get access Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture in Abu Ghraib. By Ryan Ashley Caldwell (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, ix + 217pp. £55.00) Mary Corcoran Mary Corcoran Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 53, …
A seamless partnership? Developing mixed economy interventions in a non-custodial project for women
The movement towards localism, partnerships and governing ‘networks’ has renewed academic interest in the voluntary sector role in multi-agency work in criminal justice fields. This article argues that strategic partnerships which service systems for managing offenders are organizing into more complex formations which are poised to alter academic understanding of power relationships and roles among partners. Using Adelbart Evers’ (2005) concept o…
Dilemmas of institutionalization in the penal voluntary sector
The award in 2009 of contracts to operate private prisons to consortia which included charities has reignited debates in the UK about the costs of state patronage among the voluntary sector. This article argues that the controversy has highlighted current dilemmas of institutionalization arising from the interpenetration of civil and penal spheres, as public policy nurtures an emergent ‘penal voluntary sector’. Moreover, the article identifies th…
Snakes and Ladders: Women's Imprisonment and Official Reform Discourse under New Labour
This article reviews the ‘New’ Labour government's threadbare and contradictory penal reformist legacy with regards to women. For most of its period in office, the Labour government (May 1997-May 2010) presided over a growing prison population before belatedly supporting targeted and intensive intervention for ‘at risk’ women. This article accounts for the short-lived reductionist turn in officially sponsored reformist discourse and its attenuati…
Transitions from School to Work: Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity
This volume made an important contribution to the growing literature on the transition from school to work. It provides a different perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s; offers an integrative conceptual framework for analysis; and promotes a comparative, cross-national understanding of school-to-work transitions in a changing social context. The articles assembled in this volume compar…
Caregiver Appraisals of Functional Dependence in Individuals With Dementia and Associated Caregiver Upset: Psychometric Properties of a New Scale and Response Patterns by Caregiver and Care Recipient …
The CAFU is easily administered, reliable, and valid for evaluating appraisals of dependencies and upsetting care areas
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
Welfare, work experience, and economic self-sufficiency
The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipihyphen;ents see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with wo…
Welfare, work experience, and economic self‐sufficiency
The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipihyphen;ents see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with wo…
How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work
The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity. We review the evolution of the 1996 legislation and how states implement welfare reform. We examine evidence on recipients' employment, well-being, and future earnings potential to assess the role of welfare in women's work. Policies rewarding work and penalizing nonwork, such as sanctions, time limits, diversion, and earnings 'disregards,' vary across states. While caseloads fell an…
Rags to Rags: Poverty and Mobility in the United States
Early arguments over the 'culture of poverty' assumed considerable intergenerational transmission of poverty but differed over whether this was due to cultural inadequacies of the poor or to structural barriers and discrimination faced by the poor. These arguments subsided by the 1970s when quantitative social stratification studies such as Blau & Duncan (1967) found that intergenerational socioeconomic mobility was considerable and that there wa…
The Association between Men's Economic Status and Their Family and Community Origins
This study uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between men's economic status and the characteristics of the families and communities in which they grew up. It is distinguished from most previous studies by its emphasis on community influences and on influences from poverty and welfare use. Also, our parental characteristics data are more comprehensive and accurate than those of many …
Background, Earnings, and the American Dream
Rags to Rags: Poverty and Mobility in the United States
Early arguments over the 'culture of poverty' assumed considerable intergenerational transmission of poverty but differed over whether this was due to cultural inadequacies of the poor or to structural barriers and discrimination faced by the poor. These arguments subsided by the 1970s when quantitative social stratification studies such as Blau & Duncan (1967) found that intergenerational socioeconomic mobility was considerable and that there wa…
How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work
The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity. We review the evolution of the 1996 legislation and how states implement welfare reform. We examine evidence on recipients' employment, well-being, and future earnings potential to assess the role of welfare in women's work. Policies rewarding work and penalizing nonwork, such as sanctions, time limits, diversion, and earnings 'disregards,' vary across states. While caseloads fell an…
Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage
Shirley M. Clark, Mary Corcoran, Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage?, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1986), pp. 20-43
Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America
Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty
Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer, 1985), pp. 516-536
The Guns of Autumn: Age Differences in Support for Income Transfers to the Young and Old
A Report: Aids
Journal Article AIDS Get access ELEANOR SINGER, ELEANOR SINGER Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar THERESA F. ROGERS, THERESA F. ROGERS Senior Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Business Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARY CORCORAN MARY CORCORAN a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, Colu…
The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales: Adaptation to Unsettlement and Austerity
This article draws on some findings from research which investigated penal voluntary sector adaptation to the mixed market in criminal justice services. The article firstly reprises the main trends for aligning state relationships with the voluntary sector from the 1980s to the present. We then outline some findings about adaptive experiences, situations and practices of the voluntary sector in criminal justice resettlement in the light of consid…
Dilemmas of institutionalization in the penal voluntary sector
The award in 2009 of contracts to operate private prisons to consortia which included charities has reignited debates in the UK about the costs of state patronage among the voluntary sector. This article argues that the controversy has highlighted current dilemmas of institutionalization arising from the interpenetration of civil and penal spheres, as public policy nurtures an emergent ‘penal voluntary sector’. Moreover, the article identifies th…
The Case for an Institutional Perspective on Faculty Development
Additional informationNotes on contributorsShirley M. ClarkShirley M. Clark is professor of education and sociology, Mary Corcoran is professor of higher education and educational psychology, and Darrell R. Lewis is professor of economic and higher education at the University of Minnesota.Mary CorcoranShirley M. Clark is professor of education and sociology, Mary Corcoran is professor of higher education and educational psychology, and Darrell R.…
The economic consequences of marital dissolution for women in the middle years
Spectacular suffering: Transgressive performance in penal activism
The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the established claim that bodily suffering comprises a core matter of humanitarian campaigning. However, if ‘spectacular suffering’ has predominantly been discussed as a visual experience, this article examine…
Sex Differences in Measurement Error in Status Attainment Models
This article investigates sex differences in the accuracy of young adults' retrospective reports of parental status using Joreskog's general framework for the simultaneous covariance structure analysis of multiple populations. Results indicate that young women's reports of maternal education are significantly more reliable than are young men's reports and that the reliabilities of reports ofpaternal traits are similar for young men and women
Background, Earnings, and the American Dream
Unemployment and Poverty
This article looks at the relationship between unemployment and poverty for the period 1967-75. Looking at individuals in households, we find that the number of persons living in poverty would have been reduced by about 10 percent if all unemployment of household heads had been eliminated. Focusing on male household heads, we find that among prime-age men, the working poor were almost twice as likely as other workers to become unemployed and, whe…
Reporting on domestic violence in the Irish media: An exploratory study of journalists’ perceptions and practices
Media representations of domestic violence continue to be problematic. Few studies engage with journalists to understand how and why problematic representations are produced and endure. This research addresses that gap by exploring the challenges to journalists of reporting domestic violence. The key findings are that sources, conventions, and institutional constraints all constitute challenges to accurate reporting. Journalists note that police …
A seamless partnership? Developing mixed economy interventions in a non-custodial project for women
The movement towards localism, partnerships and governing ‘networks’ has renewed academic interest in the voluntary sector role in multi-agency work in criminal justice fields. This article argues that strategic partnerships which service systems for managing offenders are organizing into more complex formations which are poised to alter academic understanding of power relationships and roles among partners. Using Adelbart Evers’ (2005) concept o…
Work History, Labor Force Attachment, and Earnings Differences between the Races and Sexes
This article uses a new data set to investigate the extent to which differences in work history, on-the-job training, absenteeism, and self-imposed restrictions on work hours and location account for wage differences between the sexes and races. As expected, white men generally had more education and training and less absenteeism and fewer restrictions than black men and women of both races. Contrary to past studies, the proportionate wage payoff…
The economic consequences of marital dissolution for women in the middle years
Unemployment and Poverty
This article looks at the relationship between unemployment and poverty for the period 1967-75. Looking at individuals in households, we find that the number of persons living in poverty would have been reduced by about 10 percent if all unemployment of household heads had been eliminated. Focusing on male household heads, we find that among prime-age men, the working poor were almost twice as likely as other workers to become unemployed and, whe…
Sex Differences in Measurement Error in Status Attainment Models
This article investigates sex differences in the accuracy of young adults' retrospective reports of parental status using Joreskog's general framework for the simultaneous covariance structure analysis of multiple populations. Results indicate that young women's reports of maternal education are significantly more reliable than are young men's reports and that the reliabilities of reports ofpaternal traits are similar for young men and women
Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America
The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty
Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer, 1985), pp. 516-536
Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage
Shirley M. Clark, Mary Corcoran, Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage?, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1986), pp. 20-43
The Case for an Institutional Perspective on Faculty Development
Additional informationNotes on contributorsShirley M. ClarkShirley M. Clark is professor of education and sociology, Mary Corcoran is professor of higher education and educational psychology, and Darrell R. Lewis is professor of economic and higher education at the University of Minnesota.Mary CorcoranShirley M. Clark is professor of education and sociology, Mary Corcoran is professor of higher education and educational psychology, and Darrell R.…
A Report: Aids
Journal Article AIDS Get access ELEANOR SINGER, ELEANOR SINGER Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar THERESA F. ROGERS, THERESA F. ROGERS Senior Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Business Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARY CORCORAN MARY CORCORAN a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, Colu…
The Guns of Autumn: Age Differences in Support for Income Transfers to the Young and Old
A Longitudinal Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Economic Status
Numerous previous studies have used sibling correlations to measure the importance of family background as a determinant of economic status. The sibling correlations estimated in these studies, however, have been depressed by a failure to distinguish transitory and permanent income variation and, in some cases, by overly homogeneous samples. This paper presents a methodology to address these problems and applies it to longitudinal data from the P…
The Association between Men's Economic Status and Their Family and Community Origins
This study uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between men's economic status and the characteristics of the families and communities in which they grew up. It is distinguished from most previous studies by its emphasis on community influences and on influences from poverty and welfare use. Also, our parental characteristics data are more comprehensive and accurate than those of many …
Background, Earnings, and the American Dream
Rags to Rags: Poverty and Mobility in the United States
Early arguments over the 'culture of poverty' assumed considerable intergenerational transmission of poverty but differed over whether this was due to cultural inadequacies of the poor or to structural barriers and discrimination faced by the poor. These arguments subsided by the 1970s when quantitative social stratification studies such as Blau & Duncan (1967) found that intergenerational socioeconomic mobility was considerable and that there wa…
How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work
The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity. We review the evolution of the 1996 legislation and how states implement welfare reform. We examine evidence on recipients' employment, well-being, and future earnings potential to assess the role of welfare in women's work. Policies rewarding work and penalizing nonwork, such as sanctions, time limits, diversion, and earnings 'disregards,' vary across states. While caseloads fell an…
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
Welfare, work experience, and economic self-sufficiency
The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipihyphen;ents see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with wo…
Welfare, work experience, and economic self‐sufficiency
The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipihyphen;ents see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with wo…
Caregiver Appraisals of Functional Dependence in Individuals With Dementia and Associated Caregiver Upset: Psychometric Properties of a New Scale and Response Patterns by Caregiver and Care Recipient …
The CAFU is easily administered, reliable, and valid for evaluating appraisals of dependencies and upsetting care areas
Transitions from School to Work: Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity
This volume made an important contribution to the growing literature on the transition from school to work. It provides a different perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s; offers an integrative conceptual framework for analysis; and promotes a comparative, cross-national understanding of school-to-work transitions in a changing social context. The articles assembled in this volume compar…
Snakes and Ladders: Women's Imprisonment and Official Reform Discourse under New Labour
This article reviews the ‘New’ Labour government's threadbare and contradictory penal reformist legacy with regards to women. For most of its period in office, the Labour government (May 1997-May 2010) presided over a growing prison population before belatedly supporting targeted and intensive intervention for ‘at risk’ women. This article accounts for the short-lived reductionist turn in officially sponsored reformist discourse and its attenuati…
Dilemmas of institutionalization in the penal voluntary sector
The award in 2009 of contracts to operate private prisons to consortia which included charities has reignited debates in the UK about the costs of state patronage among the voluntary sector. This article argues that the controversy has highlighted current dilemmas of institutionalization arising from the interpenetration of civil and penal spheres, as public policy nurtures an emergent ‘penal voluntary sector’. Moreover, the article identifies th…
A seamless partnership? Developing mixed economy interventions in a non-custodial project for women
The movement towards localism, partnerships and governing ‘networks’ has renewed academic interest in the voluntary sector role in multi-agency work in criminal justice fields. This article argues that strategic partnerships which service systems for managing offenders are organizing into more complex formations which are poised to alter academic understanding of power relationships and roles among partners. Using Adelbart Evers’ (2005) concept o…
Out of Order
This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was notable as much because of its longevity as the radical aspe…
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