Papers by Agnieszka Martynowicz
Brexit, EU Settlement Scheme and the Forced (Im)Mobility of EU Citizens in the UK
Border Criminologies blog post about the challenges presented by European Union Settlement Scheme
Warehouses for the deportable foreign national prisoners in the UK
Archiwum Kryminologii, 2013
Individuals who are not nationals of the UK are particularly vulnerable to breaches of their huma... more Individuals who are not nationals of the UK are particularly vulnerable to breaches of their human rights. Language barriers, lack of information on rights in accessible forms and the public discourse on migration and asylum can all serve to exacerbate these vulnerabilities. When those individuals are, as is current practice, detained by state agencies in the prison estate, custody suites or removal centres the need for independent inspection and investigation is crucial. The lack of publicly available information around decisions to detain highlighted a pressing need for an investigation that went beyond an examination of the places of detention to one that examined how those who are not nationals came to be
Oversight of Prison Conditions and Investigations of Deaths in Custody
This article examines the mechanisms currently available in Ireland for the oversight of prison c... more This article examines the mechanisms currently available in Ireland for the oversight of prison conditions and investigation of deaths in custody. It further analyses those against international human rights standards. The establishment of appropriate oversight and investigative mechanisms is increasingly important in the context of the deteriorating conditions in Irish prisons that have been regularly criticized by international bodies such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. This article concludes that some significant reforms are needed in Ireland to ensure effective pro-tection of prisoners ’ rights.
Issues and Challenges for Northern Ireland 1 Contents Page
Investigation into the Role of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses in the Recruitment and Employment of Migrant Workers in Northern Ireland. A Literature Review
... 1.3 'Workers' and 'employees' under UK employment law 1.4... more ... 1.3 'Workers' and 'employees' under UK employment law 1.4 Employment businesses and employment agencies 2. The number of migrant workers employed in Northern Ireland ... 4. Regulation of employment agencies and employment businesses the legal framework 32 ...
Sprawozdanie z Konferencji Europejskiego Towarzystwa Kryminologicznego w Porto (2 – 5 września 2015)
Reflective learning through the study of autobiographical accounts: a module on Prison Lives
The article discusses the use of reflective pedagogy with criminology and criminal justice studen... more The article discusses the use of reflective pedagogy with criminology and criminal justice students, with the example of a module on the lives of people in prisons.
The Le Chéile Justice Project in Limerick is Ireland’s only non-statutory service providing forma... more The Le Chéile Justice Project in Limerick is Ireland’s only non-statutory service providing formal restorative justice interventions to young offenders. Established in 2010, the project co-operates closely with Young Persons’ Probation, which refers children and young people in conflict with the law to the Project. This article presents the main findings from an Evaluation and Social Return on Investment analysis of the Project, conducted over six months in 2014 by the authors, working under the auspices of Quality Matters. It describes the impact and outcomes for young people, family members, victims of crime and the wider community, as well as making a brief comment on the Project’s cost effectiveness.
Introduction: Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States and Their Forced Returns within the European Union
Governments of countries of the Global North often segregate migrants into three main groups: wel... more Governments of countries of the Global North often segregate migrants into three main groups: welcomed and accepted (mostly high-skilled specialists or those who are wealthy); ‘tolerable’ because their work is needed by the host country (skilled or unskilled workers) and unwanted. The latter are often subjected to expulsion processes that can take the form of deportation and administrative removal, as well as the enforcement of instruments of inter-jurisdictional transfer such as the European Arrest Warrant. Focusing on intra-EU expulsion processes, in this article we argue that these reveal stereotypisation and racialisation processes, exposing the fact that such processes are not neutral in their application. We submit that intra-EU expulsions mostly target new citizens from CEE member states. This paper serves as an introduction to the Special Issue entitled ‘Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States and Their Forced Returns within the European Union’.
Behind the Door: Solitary Confinement in the Irish Penal System
This report contains 25 key recommendations centring on the use of solitary confinement and restr... more This report contains 25 key recommendations centring on the use of solitary confinement and restricted regimes in Ireland. Our goal is ambitious but achievable – the abolition of solitary confinement in Ireland in the short term and the gradual elimination of the use of restricted regimes with the ultimate target of 12 hours out-of-cell time daily for all prisoners across the prison estate. Some of the key recommendations arising from the report include: • The placement in solitary confinement of adults with mental health difficulties or mental or physical disabilities should be prohibited. • Where a prisoner requests to be kept on protection for an extended period, this should be kept under constant review. • The Irish Prison Service should research and develop a range of initiatives to address violence in prisons. These may include, but should not be limited to, restorative justice approaches and weapons amnesties. • Prisoners on protection or other restricted regimes should be pr...
Zemiologia jako wyzwanie dla kryminologii
Odpowiedzią na impas w kryminologii miała więc stać się zemiologia, czyli podejście skupiające si... more Odpowiedzią na impas w kryminologii miała więc stać się zemiologia, czyli podejście skupiające się na analizie szkód społecznych (social harms) powstających jako rezultat działań, które niekoniecznie pokrywają się z definicjami "przestępstwa" w prawie karnym. Przełomem w próbach określenia czym jest zemiologia stała się wydana w 2004 r. książka <em>Beyond Criminology. Taking Harm Seriously</em> pod redakcją Paddy'ego Hillyarda i Steve'a Tombsa. Dość trudno jest ocenić, czy po piętnastu latach od publikacji <em>Beyond Criminology</em> intelektualny proces definiowania zakresu zemiologii posunął się na tyle, by można było mówić o ustanowieniu odrębnej dziedziny naukowej; niewątpliwe jest jednak to, że wyzwanie postawione kryminologii zostało podjęte.
“…They Didn’t Ask Us to Come Here, Did They?”: The Pain of the Threat of Expulsion in a Contemporary Prison
This chapter presents the experiences of deportability of Polish prisoners incarcerated in the No... more This chapter presents the experiences of deportability of Polish prisoners incarcerated in the North of Ireland. Based on the author's doctoral research, it discussed the prisoners' feelings of uncertainty and anxieties created by the prospect of being removed from the UK post-sentence. The chapter argues that the ever-present threat of expulsion experienced by foreign national prisoners needs to be defined as a distinct pain of imprisonment (Sykes 1958) in contemporary prisons.
â?oItâ?Ts like stepping on a landmineâ?¦â? - Reintegration of prisoners in Ireland
This report looks at reintegration services in Ireland and identifies the developments needed to ... more This report looks at reintegration services in Ireland and identifies the developments needed to improve the level of support currently available to prisoners, exprisoners and their families to limit the experience of imprisonment in the future. The findings of the report are based on a study undertaken by the Irish Penal Reform Trust between October 2009 and February 2010, which consisted of an extensive literature review, a number of semi-structured interviews with service providers (in the statutory and non-statutory sector), a short questionnaire sent out to a number of service providers in the community sector in different regions of Ireland, and two focus groupswith ex-prisoners residing in the Dublin area.
A baseline study of experiences in Northern Ireland
Cudzoziemcy w Republice Irlandii:: migracje, detencja i przestępczość’
Uncertainty, Complexity, Anxiety - Deportation and the Prison in the Case of Polish Prisoners in Northern Ireland
This article presents the experiences of deportability of Polish prisoners incarcerated in the No... more This article presents the experiences of deportability of Polish prisoners incarcerated in the North of Ireland. Based on the author's doctoral research, it discusses the prisoners' feelings of uncertainty and anxieties created by the prospect of being removed from the UK post sentence. The article argues that the treatment of those prisoners constitutes part of a 'war on migration' and migrants, currently evident in the actions of the UK's immigration authorities. Exclusion of foreign national prisoners from the UK is now part of a policy that differentiates them from 'local' prisoners not only when they are in custody, but long after.
This article presents the findings of the author's doctoral research with male Polish prisone... more This article presents the findings of the author's doctoral research with male Polish prisoners incarcerated in Northern Ireland. Debating the need for expanding our understanding of how the pains of confinement are experienced differentially depending on citizenship, nationality and linguistic ability, the article argues that in the case of those prisoners the exercise of prison power focused on exclusionary practices. This has had an impact on how those prisoners were able (or not) to resist the prison regime. The discussion reflects on how this exclusionary power of the prison is aided by two external forces - the UK's immigration system and Poland's criminal justice system - in maintaining 'order' and compliance.
Book review: Rod Earle, Convict Criminology: Inside and Out
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2019
Not so multicultural prison: Polish prisoners in a transitional prison system
Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2016
The aim of this article is to examine how a group of Polish male prisoners negotiate daily life i... more The aim of this article is to examine how a group of Polish male prisoners negotiate daily life in prison custody in Northern Ireland. In a jurisdiction emerging from years of armed conflict, the prison system is currently undergoing structural changes to bring it in line with other systems providing peacetime custody. Alongside that reform, another transition is evident, that of a rapidly increasing diversity of the prison population. Unlike elsewhere in the UK, the number of foreign national prisoners in Northern Ireland began increasing only in the last decade. Analysing the ways in which Polish prisoners negotiate relationships with other prisoners and staff, the article concludes that many live in a prison within prison, with a high wall of communication barriers around them, suspended before their entry into custody and the ever-looming moment of deportation. The prison system, largely unprepared to deal with more diverse populations, facilitates their existence in ‘mono-cultural boxes’ in the meantime.
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