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:
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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
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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...
🔊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
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...
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...
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
Genuine question for policymakers and commissioners:
If community violence explains a large share of adult mental ill-health, why is it still missing from most ACE frameworks and screening tools?
Evidence here: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
We find that community violence explains up to 1 in 5 anxiety cases at population level in NI.
It’s not a side issue-it’s central.
Full paper: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
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 !
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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...
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.
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 ⬇️
Interesting episode with @stevechalke.bsky.social on understanding and preventing youth violence. Worth a listen.
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