Biography

Lynsey Black holds an LL.B from Trinity College Dublin (2006) and an MA in Criminology from the Dublin Institute of Technology (2009). Her dissertation at MA level involved a cultural criminological exploration of the media and crime, specifically the reporting of offending women. Lynsey interned at the Irish Penal Reform Trust, working on their ‘Shifting Focus’ campaign which made the case for prevention and early intervention. Lynsey has worked as a part-time assistant lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (2012), teaching on the criminology module of the LL.B and postgraduate diploma in law programmes.
Lynsey’s Ph.D research focuses on women who kill, and the death penalty, in Ireland and has been aided by the award of a research bursary from the Irish Legal History Society. Spanning almost 200 years, the study will excavate those cases of women sentenced to death from 1800 and will attempt to extrapolate the processes by which such women were represented and how narratives impacted on judicial disposal.

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Professional Qualifications

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Awards

• Research Bursary, Irish Legal History Society

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Research Interests

• Criminology
• Gender and Crime
• Media and Crime

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Education Details

• Ph.D. Candidate, Trinity College Dublin (2011-Present)
• MA Criminology, Dublin Institute of Technology (2009)
• LL.B., Trinity College Dublin (2006)

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Employment Details

• Dublin Institute of Technology, Assistant Part-Time Lecturer (2012)
• Irish Penal Reform Trust (2010)

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Memberships /Associations /Publications

• Irish Penal Reform Trust
• British Society of Criminology
• Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development
  
• European Society of Criminology
  
• Irish Legal History Society

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Publications

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