Staff
- Staff Vacancies
- Professor Colin Harvey
- Professor Norma Dawson
- Professor Brice Dickson
- Professor Philip Leith
- Professor Shadd Maruna
- Professor Kieran McEvoy
- Professor John Morison
- Professor Phil Scraton
- Professor Sharon Turner
- Professor Sally Wheeler
- Dr Jean Allain
- Dr David Capper
- Dr Jack Anderson
- Dr Gordon Anthony
- Dr Heather Conway
- Dr Alan Dowling
- Dr Rory O'Connell
- Dr Dieter Pesendorfer
- Dr Pete Shirlow
- Dr John Stannard
- Dr Onder Bakircioglu
- Dr Qingxiu Bu
- Dr Karen Brennan
- Dr Vicky Conway
- Ms Clare Dwyer
- Dr Peter Doran
- Dr Dimitrios Doukas
- Dr Niamh Howlin
- Dr Graham Ellison
- Dr Mark Flear
- Ms Lisa Glennon
- Dr Robin Hickey
- Dr Brian Jack
- Ms Ruth Jamieson
- Dr Sylvie Langlaude
- Dr Alison Mawhinney
- Dr Fiona Marshall
- Dr Anne-Marie McAlinden
- Dr Ronagh McQuigg
- Dr Aoife Nolan
- Dr Tomoya Obokata
- Ms Katie Quinn
- Dr Ciarán O’Kelly
- Dr Sara Ramshaw
- Ms Marny Requa
- Dr Bal Sokhi-Bulley
- Dr Hakeem Yusuf
- Mrs Meave Gilchrist
- Mrs Angela Brady
- Mrs Belinda Caldwell
- Mrs Judith Cardwell
- Mrs Michelle Madden
- Mr Alistair Charles
- Mr Deaglan Coyle
- Ms Margaret Howell
- Mr Paul Lappin
- Miss Sarah Speirs
- Mrs Theresa Taylor
- Ms Nuala Barnes
- Professor Elizabeth Meehan
Professor Kieran McEvoy
Contact Details
Email address
k.mcevoy@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3873
Room 29.107, 29 University Square
Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
School of Law,
Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN
Degrees
LLB, Queens University Belfast
MSc Criminology, University of Edinburgh
PhD, Queens University Belfast
Biography
Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at the School of Law and former Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queens University Belfast. Between 1990-1995 he worked as Information Officer for NIACRO, a large non-governmental organisation which campaigns on behalf of prisoners their families and ex-offenders. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice in 1995 (which amalgamated with the Law School in 1998) and was promoted to Reader in 2000 and Professor in 2002. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Fordham University Law School, New York University Law School (June-September 2001), Institute of Criminology , University of Cambridge (July-August 2003), a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Harvard Law School (September 2001-July 2002), the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics (Oct-Dec 2005) and the School of Law at Berkeley, University of California (June-Sept 2006). For eight years he served as Review Editor of the British Journal of Criminology. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Contemporary Justice Review and Social and Legal Studies. He also completing a comparative research project (with L. Mallinder and B. Dickson) funded by the AHRC which is examining amnesties as part of conflict transformation in Argentina, Uruguay, Bosnia, South Africa and Uganda. He also recently conducted comparative research in Canada, the USA, Israel\Palestine, Spain, Italy, Colombia, Rwanda, Indonesia as well as Ireland and Britain. In 2002, his book Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland was awarded the British Society of Criminology book of the year award for the best first sole authored book published in the discipline in the previous year. His article (with H. Conway) “The Dead, the Law and the Politics of the Past” was also joint winner Socio-legal Studies Association article of year prize in 2005. Another article, “Beyond Legalism : Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice” won the same award in 2009. As an activist, he is a former Chairperson and long term committee member of CAJ (the Committee on the Administration of Justice), the principal human rights NGO in Northern Ireland. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of NIACRO and was heavily involved in the establishment of community based restorative justice projects in Nationalist areas in Northern Ireland. In 2001 he chaired the Human Rights Commission Criminal Justice Working Group on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. He is also an active member of the local NGO Healing Through Remembering an author of their report on options for truth recovery for Northern Ireland. A book arising from that research The Trouble with Truth : Transition, Reconciliation and Struggling with the Past in Northern Ireland will be published as a monograph by Willan in 2010. He is on research leave in 2009\10
Teaching
Undergraduate
· Criminology and Criminal Justice
· International Criminal Justice
Postgraduate
· Restorative Justice
· Transitional Justice and Conflict Transformation
Research
Transitional Justice, Truth Recovery, Political Imprisonment, Ex-combatants, Human Rights, Restorative Justice, Conflict Transformation, Judiciary and Legal Profession in Transition.
Selected Publications
“Reimagining DDR: Ex-combatants, leadership and Moral Agency in Conflict Transformation.” (2009) Theoretical Criminology, 13,1 31-59 (with P. Shirlow)
Beyond the Wire : Ex-prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland (2008) (with P. Shirlow). Pluto. 185 pp.
Transitional Justice from Below : Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change (2008) (ed with L. McGregor) Hart. 254pp.
Judges, Transition and Human Rights (2007) (ed with J. Morison and G. Anthony) Oxford University Press. 567pp.
Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice (2003) (ed with Tim Newburn) Palgrave. 228pp.
Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland : Resistance, Management and Release (2001) Oxford University Press. 445pp.
“Beyond Legalism : Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice.” (2007) Journal of Law and Society, 34,4, 411-440.
