On Thursday, March 6, 2025 the School of Law and Criminology hosted an event during Social Justice week entitled, Gendered Harms: International Women's Day and Social Justice week event from the School of Law and Criminology.
The event looked to consider and discuss several topics that encompass gendered experiences of harm across a broad spectrum of research areas from colleagues in the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. Introduced by Head of School, Prof Fergus Ryan and Chaired by Dr Sinead Ring.
Panellists included:
Dr Sinead Ring
Evidence in Rape Trials- Interrogating assumptions about victims and about the law.
Dr Michael Boland
Developments in the Law Governing Online Activity: The Criminalisation of Catfishing and Civil Relief in Cases of Image-Based Sexual Abuse.
Dr Lynsey Black
'Gender, crime and criminal justice in Ireland' - exploring gendered histories of punishment and confinement and situating this within the contemporary Irish landscape of women and criminal justice.
Dr Gerard Maguire
Indigenous Gender Justice ; The MMIGW2S Crisis in Canada
