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Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden

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Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden

Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden

School of Law

My main research interests are in the area of sexual offending against children, including the dynamics of how offending behavior occurs and how it can best be managed. My work takes a socio-legal approach in examining not just legal and policy frameworks around ‘risk’ but the impact of cultural and societal values on our conceptions of and responses to sexual offending behavior. Recent projects include ‘grooming’ and the sexual abuse of children; desistance from sexual offending; sexual exploitation and abuse by children and young people; and apologies and the past where one of the case studies is institutional child abuse.

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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in;

  • Sexual abuse or exploitation
  • Sexual and gender-based violence
  • Restorative justice
  • ‘Cyber’ or on-line forms of abuse
  • Sexual offending by children and young people
  • Comparative penal policies on risk/risk management
  • Institutional forms of abuse
  • Historical abuse
  • Community responses to sexual offending
  • Cultural myths around sexual abuse

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Public outreach & key achievements

Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Sexual Aggression; Contemporary Justice Review; and The Prison Service Journal

Two periods of external consultancy for the Northern Ireland Office/Department of Justice and Public Protection Arrangements Northern Ireland (PPANI) on ‘Public Attitudes to Sexual Offending’ and ‘Employment Opportunities for Sexual Offenders.’

Invited international expert and gave oral and written evidence to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017).

International media activity – interviewed for and quoted in:

The New York Times

The Economist

ABC Radio

Profiled in the Times Higher as a ‘World Leading Researcher’ from QUB (Feb 2018).


Research students

PhD area  Remembering What They Can Never Forget: Exploring Memorialisation of Historical Institutional Abuse from the Perspective of Victims and Survivors, and the General Public 
Name Paula Shilliday
Years of study 2017-2020
Country Northern Ireland
Funded by Mitchell Institute PhD Studentship 
   
JD Thesis title Cultural Perception surrounding Sexual Violence Survivors within the Justice System
Name Daniella Raso
Years of study 2019-2021
Country Canada 

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area  A Critical Analysis of the Emergence, Impact and Regulation of ‘Cyberbullying’ and ‘Sexting’ and Young People in Northern Ireland
Name Dr Elizabeth Agnew 
Years of study 2013-2018
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast 
   
PhD area Victims, Professionalisation and International Justice: A Critical Examination of the Civil Party System in the ECCC.
Name Dr Rachel Killean 
Years of study  2012-2016
Country  Northern Ireland
Current Position  Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
   
PhD area Understanding Desistance from Sexual Offending
Name Dr Mark Farmer
Years of study England
Country 2011-2017
Current Position National Specialist Lead, Sexual Offending Programmes, HM Prison and Probation Service


 


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