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

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...

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...

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

In this book, I refer to this as a deprivation of response; one in a sequence of deprivations in which we see trauma and MH cluster in the criminal justice system. 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

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NPR@npr.org · 6mo ago

Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.

🔊Calling youth service practitioners Free online in-sight session exploring online influences, anti immigration sentiment and violence in Ireland. Come chat with Cathal and see how research insights can inform your practice. Link below

I'm so glad it's reached you!! Thank you so much for making the book that much richer with your contribution! I think the #sensory has so much more to say about violence and its afterlives.

New paper in Health & Justice, testing a simple idea: it’s not just ACEs that matters but the balance bet adversity & protection. Using a PCE:ACE ratio I show: ⬇️ Arrest & incarceration ⬇️ School exclusion ⬇️ Substance use ⬇️ Mental health diagnoses Open access: rdcu.be/e3EJ8 #ACEs #PCEs #PublicHealth

Glad to see, following chaos at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social 2025, a member vote compels a statement on genocide in Gaza: “Q1c (Statement on war in Gaza / Israel–Palestine): Yes 316 / No 188 / Abstain 19 — Yes = 60.42% of completed (62.7% excluding abstentions)”

Oooh. This just arrived. Lots and lots of brilliant contributions (chapter 3 is ok too…). Thanks @kateherrity.bsky.social and team for the invite and support. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Just landed on my desk-literally! This is class, from my most excellent PhD student, @journey2aphd.bsky.social : coaching and mentoring in the context of criminal justice @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Breaking the Cycle of Youth Offending

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What do we know about preventing the recruitment of young people into drug markets in EU? #CCE #illicitnetworks #rapidreview @reppp-ul.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6IT...

Webinar: Novel approaches to prevent recruitment and participation of young people in drug markets

YouTube video by European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA)

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www.madinamerica.com/2025/12/extr...

Extrafamilial Violence Strongly Linked to Mental Health Problems in Northern Ireland

A new study in Northern Ireland shows that extrafamilial violence, such as bullying and community violence, is a powerful predictor of adult mental health problems.

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Mental health and experience of violence: sobering insights from @youthendowmentfund.org.uk , including impact of exposure and system-level challenges addressing MH needs. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Some stellar contributions to the annual Irish Probation Journal 2025. A delight to work with colleagues on this review of what it actually means to apply a public health health approach to violence prevention: www.pbni.org.uk/publication/... #publichealth #violence #prevention

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

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

What a pleasure to join @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @ulsteruni.bsky.social colleagues at the first jointly facilitated roundtable on violence and harm reduction. Thanks to @louisemallinder.bsky.social for chairing and @justice-ni.bsky.social for convening.

Are you interested in understanding and preventing child criminal exploitation (CCE) or testing new community violence prevention interventions? Come on work with us @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social ! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Challenging the orthodoxy of ACE dose-response effect among justice involved youth: “Results revealed curvilinear associations for several outcomes, including recidivism and internalizing symptoms, with diminishing effects at higher ACE levels.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Are More ACEs Always Worse? Exploring Nonlinear Associations with Youth Behavior” - Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Although it is assumed that more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are associated with worse health and social problems, there is a lack of research testing alternative forms of the ACEs-outcome re...

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Bibi Netanyahu went to high school in the Philly burbs. Students & alumni are calling for his photo to be removed from their wall of fame. “I kind of see this guy as a war criminal these days," said one alum. The alumni association & district officials are meeting about the matter this morning.

At Netanyahu’s U.S. Alma Mater, a Push to Remove Him From the Wall of Fame

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With tensions already high, watch carefully over the next hours and days as to who is ‘protecting’ those dangerous bonfires from being made safe. #CCE #violence #exploitation

Great idea to colocate justice and child and adolescent mental health services ⬇️

Youth Justice Agency@youthjusticeagency.bsky.social · last yr.

We have been working with CAMHS since 2019 to develop an innovative approach to supporting young people in contact with the justice system with their mental health needs to help them address the challenges they face and reduce the likelihood of them re-offend.

Violence, fast and slow: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What We Get Wrong About Violent Crime

A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

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Interesting episode with @stevechalke.bsky.social on understanding and preventing youth violence. Worth a listen. music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/ce8...

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Still a few weeks to respond to Dept Justice NI consultation on simplifying court ordered disposals for children. If you work with children, please encourage them to respond @slsshub.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social www.justice-ni.gov.uk/consultation...

School suspensions in Northern Ireland are at their highest level for more than a decade, with almost 5,400 pupils temporarily put out of the classroom in one year.

The reality of NI schools: Drugs, attacks and abuse as suspensions at highest level for more than a decade

School suspensions in Northern Ireland are at their highest level for more than a decade, with almost 5,400 pupils temporarily put out of the classroom in one year.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Thanks so much to EA youth services for facilitating space for some of @qubcriminology.bsky.social for a time out. Reflecting on research, impact and future directions