Profile Information
Location
Cork
Country
Ireland
Postal Code
na
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Researcher - Irish Research Council funded employment-based PhD scholar in Law at UCC
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Cork Alliance Centre, which is a desistance project in Cork City
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
Criminality and the consequent loss of liberty may, for many prisoners, be a minor aspect of their personal adversity stories. Offenders tend to come from communities where ACEs are all around them; in their homes, on their streets, in their schools, doctor’s surgeries and emergency rooms. Criminal justice agencies that are not trauma-informed and which omit to train specialized staff to ask offenders about childhood trauma are overlooking important information relevant to continued offending behaviour. If prisons and probation become trauma-responsive and help people to understand their childhood adversity and its enduring magnitude, they will be more likely to buy into participation in both personal development and offending behaviour interventions.