Today The Guardian has released a Guardian Investigation film on police brutality in Northern Ireland prior to the policing reforms and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. The investigation, which can be viewed in full here, reveals that there was widespread RUC brutality including beatings, genital burning and emotional abuse that was used in order to acquire(…)
Congratulations to HRinI bloggers Vicky Conway and Yvonne Daly who, together with UL lecturer Jennifer Schweppe, have just published Irish Criminal Justice: Theory, Process and Procedure with Clarus Press. The first textbook in this area, Irish Criminal Justice aims to provide an accessible yet critical analysis of core themes and stages in the Irish criminal(…)
This morning’s Irish Times covers the launch of our regular blogger Dr. Vicky Conways’s book The Blue Wall of Silence: The Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in Ireland. Ms Conway expressed “serious concern” about the failure of Government to sufficiently address inadequacies in the Garda Síochána. “We are not improving safeguards but are expanding powers,(…)
