Dr Lynsey Black

Biography
Research Interests
Research Projects
Project | Role | Funding Body / Program | Description | Start Date | End Date | Award (€) | |
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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 |
Edited Books
Year | Publication | |
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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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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] [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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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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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
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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] |
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 | / |