Dr Lynsey Black

Biography
Research Interests
Research Projects
Project | Role | Funding Body / Program | Description | Start Date | End Date | Award (€) | |
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CONSPACE: Crime and Punishment at the Ireland/Northern Ireland Border | PI | Irish Research Council (IRC) / Starting Laureate Award | The line of the border on the island of Ireland traverses a meandering path through the countryside for 310 miles. As an international boundary, it has been in place for 100 years. In those decades, it has been a frequent point of controversy and since its inception it has existed as a contested space. The proposed project explores this contested space through a criminological lens, examining the practices and forms of crime, punishment, and criminal justice which emerged contingent on the creation of this legal frontier. The project will draw on ‘border criminology’, a significant perspective in an era of globalisation, immigration, punitivism and mass incarceration. Productive ideas within this sphere relating to questions of citizenship and space can usefully illuminate the meanings of borders in a criminological context. The present project seeks to expand and further this perspective by a consideration of ‘border criminology’ which draws on alternative facets of ‘border life’. The project consists of a number of strands of inquiry, relating to ‘everyday life’, ‘criminal justice at the border’, ‘immigration’ and ‘Brexit and sovereignty’. This scope sees the project join historical and contemporary approaches in research design, drawing on archival research, media analysis, interviews, focus groups and ethnography to explore questions of crime, punishment and criminal justice at the Ireland/Northern Ireland border across a broad range of often unrelated themes that yet remain integral to the question of the boundary between Ireland and Northern Ireland. The project is particularly timely in the context of the re-emergence of the ‘border’ as a flashpoint in Irish, British and European political and public debate. Yet the research project demonstrates the persistence of this status from creation, denying the novelty of its current position. Crucially also, the project seeks to disrupt ‘methodological nationalism’ (Wimmer and Glick Schiller, 2002) within criminology, noting that the discipline of criminology has been criticised for its rigidity of focus on the nation-state and demonstrating the extent to which criminological inquiry must acknowledge the permeability of national boundaries. | 01-SEP-22 | 31-AUG-25 | 378292 | |
An Oral History of Securing the Northern Irish Border | PI | Socio-Legal Studies Association / Research Grants Scheme | 01-FEB-22 | 28-FEB-23 | 1738 | ||
NF/2019/15821246-Living Borders: Cattlhttps://ris.maynoothuniversity.ie/live/!W_VA_GRANTS.EDIT?OBJECT_ID=2401845e Smuggling on the Ireland/Northern Ireland Border | PI | Irish Research Council (IRC) / New Foundations | An historical project exploring the incidence of 'everyday criminality' on the Ireland/Northern Ireland border. Taking the post-WWII period, the project will use oral history interviews, archival, documentary and media research to explore the practice and meanings of smuggling as a function of a border. The project will examine the incidence of smuggling within the agricultural and rural context specifically. | 01-MAY-20 | 31-DEC-21 | 9222 | |
Reforming British Law and Policy on the Global Death Penalty | PI | British Academy / Tackling the UK's International Challenges | Despite the UK’s stated opposition to the death penalty worldwide in terms of law and policy, there are significant ways in which it is arguably complicit with the death penalty in some retentionist countries. This highlights a substantial international challenge: in order to uphold international human rights, UK law and policy on the global death penalty must be reformed. This project draws on law, history and criminology to examine how the UK exported the death penalty to other countries, such as Ireland, in the colonial era and how it fails to enact full opposition in the present. It also examines historical and contemporary UK-based campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. The project aims to identify how law and policy should be reformed to end complicity with the death penalty and the most effective campaigning strategies for global abolition. | 01-FEB-19 | 01-JUL-20 | ||
'The Mandatory Death Sentence in Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados: Colonial Legacies and Sovereign Symbols.' | PI | / | 01-JUL-19 | 31-AUG-19 |
Books
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64.
Lynsey Black (2022) Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details] |
Edited Books
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2022 | Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery
Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan, and Deirdre Healy (Ed.). (2022) Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery Bingley: Emerald Publishing. [Details] |
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2019 | Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform
Lynsey Black and Peter Dunne (Ed.). (2019) Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform Oxford: Hart. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2023 | 'Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists'
Lynsey Black and Sinéad Ring (2023) 'Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists'. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 39 (1):17-37 [DOI] [Details] |
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2021 | '‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police'
Hamilton C.;Black L. (2021) '‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police'. European Journal of Criminology, [DOI] [Details] |
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2021 | 'Editors' Introduction - Legacies of Empire Special Issue'
Lynsey Black, Lizzie Seal, Florence Seemungal, Bharat Malkani and Roger Ball (2021) 'Editors' Introduction - Legacies of Empire Special Issue'. Punishment and Society, 23 (5):609-612 [DOI] [Details] |
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2020 | 'Public Opinion on Crime, Punishment and the Death Penalty in Barbados'
Black, L;Seal, L;Seemungal, F (2020) 'Public Opinion on Crime, Punishment and the Death Penalty in Barbados'. Punishment and Society, 22 (3):302-320 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
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2020 | 'The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland'
Lynsey Black (2020) 'The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland'. Social History of Medicine, 33 (2):417-437 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
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2018 | '‘On the other hand, the accused is a woman’: Women and the Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland'
Lynsey Black (2018) '‘On the other hand, the accused is a woman’: Women and the Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland'. Law and History Review, 36 (1):139-172 [DOI] [full-text] [Details] |
Book Chapters
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | ''Women of Evil Life': Donnybrook Magdalene and the Criminal Justice System'
Lynsey Black (2023) ''Women of Evil Life': Donnybrook Magdalene and the Criminal Justice System' In: Mark Coen, Katherine O'Donnell and Maeve O'Rourke (eds). A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland. Oxford: Bloomsbury. [Details] |
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2022 | 'Capital Punishment and Postcolonialism in Ireland'
Lynsey Black (2022) 'Capital Punishment and Postcolonialism in Ireland' In: Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan, and Deirdre Healy (eds). Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery. Bingley: Emerald Publishing. [Details] |
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2022 | 'Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland'
Lynsey Black (2022) 'Women, Religion and Criminal Justice in Ireland' In: Isla Masson and Natalie Booth (eds). The Routledge Handbook on Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details] |
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2020 | 'Detecting the Murderess: Newspaper Representations of Women Convicted of Murder in New York, London, and Ireland, 1880-1914’'
Rian Sutton and Lynsey Black (2020) 'Detecting the Murderess: Newspaper Representations of Women Convicted of Murder in New York, London, and Ireland, 1880-1914’' In: Alison Adam (eds). Constructing Forensic Objectivity from 1850. London: Palgrave. [Details] |
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2016 | 'Media, Public Attitudes and Crime'
Lynsey Black (2016) 'Media, Public Attitudes and Crime' In: Deirdre Healy, Claire Hamilton, Yvonne Daly and Michelle Butler (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology. Abingdon: Routledge. [Details] |
Other Journals
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | 'British Legacy and the Global Death Penalty'
Lynsey Black, Florence Seemungal, and Lizzie Seal (2020) 'British Legacy and the Global Death Penalty' Amicus, 40 :11-14. [Details] |
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2019 | 'Justice, 2018'
Lynsey Black (2019) 'Justice, 2018' Administration: Journal of the Institute of Public Administration in Ireland, 67 (1) :37-44. [DOI] [Details] |
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2018 | 'Justice, 2017'
Lynsey Black (2018) 'Justice, 2017' Administration: Journal of the Institute of Public Administration in Ireland, 66 (1) :31-46. [DOI] [Details] |
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2018 | 'Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Irish in Scotland, 1864 to 1914'
Lynsey Black (2018) 'Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Irish in Scotland, 1864 to 1914' The Irish Jurist, 60 :154-166. [Details] |
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2017 | 'Justice, 2016'
Lynsey Black (2017) 'Justice, 2016' Administration: Journal of the Institute of Public Administration in Ireland, 64 (1) :35-48. [DOI] [Details] |
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2016 | 'Justice, 2015'
Lynsey Black (2016) 'Justice, 2015' Administration: Journal of the Institute of Public Administration in Ireland, 63 (4) :49-60. [DOI] [Details] |
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2015 | 'The Representation of Offending Women in the Irish Press: A Content Analysis'
Lynsey Black (2015) 'The Representation of Offending Women in the Irish Press: A Content Analysis' Irish Probation Journal, 12 :160-178. [Details] |
Published Reports
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | An Evidence Review of Confidence in Criminal Justice Systems.
Claire Hamilton and Lynsey Black (2019) An Evidence Review of Confidence in Criminal Justice Systems. Department of Justice and Equality, Dublin. [Details] |
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Abortion and Symphysiotomy in Ireland.
Lynsey Black (2019) Abortion and Symphysiotomy in Ireland. Blog [Details] |
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2017 | Male Jealousy & Questions of Sexual Honor: A Look at Historical Cases of Domestic Murder in Ireland.
Lynsey Black (2017) Male Jealousy & Questions of Sexual Honor: A Look at Historical Cases of Domestic Murder in Ireland. Blog [Details] |
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2014 | Mamie Cadden and the Unlearned Lesson.
Lynsey Black (2014) Mamie Cadden and the Unlearned Lesson. Blog [Details] |
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2016 | The “worst of the worst?” Dangerous Women in Post-Independence Ireland.
Lynsey Black (2016) The “worst of the worst?” Dangerous Women in Post-Independence Ireland. Blog [Details] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Review of The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970 by Victor Bailey.
Lynsey Black (2020) Review of The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970 by Victor Bailey. Book Review [DOI] [Details] |
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2018 | Review of “Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens” by Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward.
Lynsey Black (2018) Review of “Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens” by Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward. Book Review [DOI] [Details] |
Magazine Article
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2021 | Imperial Allegiances.
Lynsey Black (2021) Imperial Allegiances. Magazine Article [Details] |
Newsletter
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2018 | Doing Historical Criminology: A Case from Ireland.
Lynsey Black (2018) Doing Historical Criminology: A Case from Ireland. Newsletter [Details] |
Electronic Book
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Death Penalty and its Impact on the Professionals Involved in the Execution Process.
Florence Seemungal, Lizzie Seal, Lynsey Black (2016) Death Penalty and its Impact on the Professionals Involved in the Execution Process. New York: Electronic Book [Details] |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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Irish Legal History Society | Council | / | |
Northern Ireland Regional Group - British Society of Criminology | Steering Group | / | |
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice - British Society of Criminology | Steering Group | / |