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Professor Shadd Maruna

School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Shadd Maruna

Professor Shadd Maruna

School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Professor Maruna’s research is dedicated to understanding crime and justice in a life course perspective, in particular, in trying to understand routes out of criminality and ways that the justice system impedes (or less frequently, supports) this process of desistance from crime.

Recent areas of interest include parole board decision making and the use of personality disorder labels in the justice system.

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  • s.maruna@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5986

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Uses and Misuses of the Antisocial Personality Disorder/psychopathy label
  • Parole board decision making and desistance signaling
  • Prisons and higher education
  • Desistance, recovery and rethinking personality disorders
  • Rehabilitative Culture in prisons and beyond
  • Ex-Prisoner organisations and social movement theory

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Promoting ‘Good Lives’ for Offenders: A New Framework for Rehabilitation
  • Transforming offender rehabilitation
  • Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past
  • Discovering Desistance

Research students

PhD Title Developing a Measure of Desistance Self-Narrative for a UK Prison Population
Name Karen Johnson
Years of Study 2017-2023 (PT)
Country UK

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Violent Capital
Name Dr. Brendan Marsh
Years of Study 2012-2017 
Country Ireland
Current Position PostDoctoral Researcher, Trinity College Dublin 
   
PhD Title  Desistance from Sex Offending
Name Dr. Mark Farmer
Year of Study 2012-2017
Country UK
Current Position National Specialist Lead – Sexual Offending Programmes, HM Prison and Probation Service
   
PhD Title  Attachment theory and probation practice
Name Dr. Maria Ansbro
Year of Study 2012-2017
Country UK
Current Position Senior Lecturer, Buckinghamshire New University

 

 


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