What happens when the worlds of research and practice collide? Come find out in our next 'In-Sight' session with Prof. Catherine Comiskey @tcddublin.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Interested in how adversity influences pathways into prison? Come help us find out more and have an impact on prevention policy. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @youthjusticeagency.bsky.social @endingtheharm.bsky.social hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Working with partners to develop new and responsive youth interventions is central to our research centre @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @cebys.bsky.social Come help us help youth services to reduce violence and exploitation: hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Just in time for the weekend. Listen to centre director, @violencestudies.bsky.social take part in a new episode from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate re Child Criminal Exploitation discussing recent inspection report criminaljusticeinspectionunpacked.podbean.com @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

How can we better explain why so many in the criminal justice system have trauma backgrounds (& why so many with trauma backgrounds aren’t)? In my new book I theorise the link between adversity, trauma & violent offending, proposing a deprivation framework: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Theorising Trauma and Offending

This book synthesises trauma and criminological literature and augments it with the author’s own experience and research

link.springer.com

New paper out in BMJ Public Health ⤵️ We show that extrafamilial violence is an overlooked driver of MH in Northern Ireland. If ACE frameworks don’t include community violence, they’re incomplete. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/... #PublicHealth #Trauma #MentalHealth #ACEs #ViolencePrevention