Working better together for offender reintegration: the Third Sector Perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Corcoran. (2022, June). Working better together for offender reintegration: the Third Sector Perspective. Presented at Prisons and Probation: Sharing and Refocusing Knowledge and Practice, Barcelo Hotel, Sevilla (Spain)

Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Corcoran. (2021, February). Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. Presented at After Strangeways webinar series, London (Virtual)

This paper considers the response of activists and prison reforming NGOs to the prison disturbances in England in 1990. These prison uprisings led to an apparent flourishing of cooperation between the criminal justice authorities, state and civil soc... Read More about Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’..

Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance (2020)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2020). Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance. Theoretical Criminology, 651-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618819796

The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the establ... Read More about Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance.

'Penal drift' and the voluntary sector (2019)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2019). 'Penal drift' and the voluntary sector. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12307

This paper explores the concept of ‘penal drift’ - the gradual adoption of criminal justice culture, language and working practices - in voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) commissioned to deliver services to offenders. It identifies increases in c... Read More about 'Penal drift' and the voluntary sector.

Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision. (2018)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2018). Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 112-119. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad739

Background:
There is very little research into the way that offender management strategies impinge on the practices and decision-making of palliative care personnel in community settings.

Aims:
To improve understanding of the challenges that com... Read More about Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: Challenges for effective care provision..

The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity (2018)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2018). The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity. Political Quarterly, 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12461

This article draws on some findings from research which investigated penal voluntary sector adaptation to the mixed market in criminal justice services. The article firstly reprises the main trends for aligning state relationships with the voluntary... Read More about The penal voluntary sector in England & Wales: adaptation to unsettlement and austerity.

The third sector role in managing serious offenders: partners, collaborators or buffers? (2017)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2017). The third sector role in managing serious offenders: partners, collaborators or buffers?. In Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management (209-231). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63567-5

The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice (2016)
Book
Corcoran, M. (2016). The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and... Read More about The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice.

Deconstructing the panacea: the benefits fallacy in volunteer recruitment in criminal justice (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Deconstructing the panacea: the benefits fallacy in volunteer recruitment in criminal justice. In Voluntary sector and criminal justice (93 -116)

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Introduction. In Voluntary sector and criminal justice (1-12)

Gendered dynamics of mentoring (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Gendered dynamics of mentoring. In Women and Criminal Justice: From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation (153 - 172)

Integrated Offender Management Research Project: Commissioned by Staffordshire Police and Partners. (2014)
Book
Corcoran. (2014). Integrated Offender Management Research Project: Commissioned by Staffordshire Police and Partners