Dr Stephen Strauss-Walsh received a first class honours Law degree from UL in 2015. By that time, he had helped to co-author an Irish Penal Service report on deaths in custody with Prof. Shane Kilcommins and Dr Eimear Spain which led to the creation of Ireland¡¯s first database in that area, and spent a year at the University of Bologna studying under Europe¡¯s foremost Neo-Marxist criminologist Prof. Dario Melossi.

He has spent the last few years working on his PhD thesis entitled ¡®The Re-Emergence of the Victim of Crime Within Irish Criminal Justice¡¯ under the supervision of Prof. Shane Kilcommins and Dr John Lombard. During this time, he was in receipt of a Mr. Justice John Murray PhD Scholarship and won a Campus Life Services Research Postgraduate Residential Scholarships to help him pursue his studies, which revolve around how victims have come to be socio-legally reintegrated back into Irish criminal justice. As a post grad, he presented papers on victims at The Royal Irish Academy, The Irish Association of Law Teachers and The Annual Society of Legal Scholars Conference, worked as a legal writing tutor at The Limerick Regional Writing Centre and has taught a number of subjects like EU Law, Contract, Equity, Property, Criminology, Human Rights and Criminal Procedure.  He was previously a PhD representative for both the Arts faculty and School of Law in UL, and has published opinion pieces for The Journal and RTE.

Stephen¡¯s interests lie in the area of critical criminology and penal history. He joined the DCU Law and Government faculty as a teaching fellow in September 2019 and is currently working on writing up his PhD findings with a view to publishing them in a monograph.

Twitter: @SStraussWalsh

DCU Profile page: /lawandgovernment/people/stephen-strauss-walsh

Link to PhD Thesis: https://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/9561