Biography
Professor Mary Rogan's research interests include human rights and detention, experiences of monitoring and human rights protections in detention, and penal policymaking. Professor Rogan received a first class honours degree in Law from Trinity College Dublin before going on to obtain a BCL from the University of Oxford. Professor Rogan received her PhD at Trinity College Dublin for her work on the penal policymaking process. She was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2021. She is a barrister with expertise in prison law, receiving the degree of Barrister-at-Law from the Honorable Society of King's Inns with distinction. She is also a Member of Lincoln's Inn and the Bar of England and Wales. Prof. Rogan holds an MA in Higher Education from Dublin Institute of Technology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. In 2021, she became President of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire, becoming the first person from Ireland and the first woman to hold this position. Since 2023, she has been its Secretary-General, also the first from Ireland. In 2022, she won best civic engagement project award at the Trinity Civic Engagement Awards.
Professor Rogan received a Starting Grant worth €1.5 million in 2015 for a project entitled 'Prisons: the rule of law, accountability and rights'. This work brings together the disciplines of public law and the sociology of punishment to examine inspection, oversight and accountability in prison systems in Europe. In 2024, she commenced work on a project funded by the ERC's Proof of Concept scheme entitled 'Prison Oversight: Improving Rights in Europe (POIRE)). This work provides support and training to people in prison and officials in responding to international human rights prison monitoring. Professor Rogan has also received funding from the European Commission and Irish Research Council for cross-jurisdictional projects on imprisonment, and pre-trial detention, and for work on law and social change. She has led research on bail and pre-trial detention in Ireland as part of research examining seven European Union countries, and a further project examining leadership in penal change in the United States and Europe. Professor Rogan has served two terms as a Panel Member for applications to ERC Starting Grants in the SH2 panel (2023 and 2025. She has been also been a reviewer for the National Science Center, Poland, the Flanders Research Foundation, KU Leuven. She has also provided research consultancy to the Council of Europe on projects concerning the inspection of prisons in Ukraine and North Macedonia. She is the former Book Review Editor for the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice and a current member of its Editorial Board and a member of the Research Advisory Group to the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Professor Rogan teaches Human Rights and the Deprivation of Liberty, Penology and Criminology at Trinity College Dublin and was the first coordinator of the Undergraduate Research Project Programme at the School of Law. She has pioneered community-based learning methods in legal education including research partnerships with NGOs. Professor Rogan is committed to using research to improve penal policy and the policymaking process and chaired the Implementation and Oversight Group on reforms to penal policy, reporting to the Minister for Justice and Equality from 2014 - 2020. She was appointed to the inaugural Research Advisory Group for the Department of Justice and Equality in July 2018. She sits on the Advisory Group to the Office of the Inspector of Prisons and has been a member of the Central Statistics Office's Expert Group on Crime Statistics. She is a former member of the Board of the Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders, the Victims' Rights Alliance, and is a former Chairperson of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Who complains in prison and who doesn't, and why? A view from Germany in, editor(s)Laurrari, Elena Daems, Tom , Just Prisons, Routledge, 2025, pp1 - 30 , [Morgenstern, Christine; Rogan, Mary] Book Chapter, 2025
Eva Aizpurua; Sophie van der Valk; Mary Rogan; Francisco Caravaca-Sánchez, Common knowledge? Awareness of national and international oversight bodies among incarcerated individuals in Spain, European Journal of Criminology, 2025, p24 Journal Article, 2025 TARA - Full Text DOI
Prison Monitoring its successes and pitfalls in, editor(s)Laurrari, Elena Daems, Tom , Handbook on European Penology, Routledge, 2025, pp1-28 , [Laurrari, Elena, and Rogan, Mary] Book Chapter, 2025
Le système pénitentiaire irlandais, Céré Jean-Paul, World Prisons, 2024, pp32 , [Mary Rogan] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2024 TARA - Full Text
Christine Morgenstern, Mary Rogan and Walter Hammershick, Pre-trial Detention in Europe: A Means of Last Resort?, Abingdon, Routledge , 2023, 300pp Book, 2023
Sarah Curristan and Mary Rogan, When an Inspector Calls: Perceptions of Oversight among Prison Management, 2023 Journal Article, 2023
Morgenstern, Christine; Rogan, Mary, `One always looks for a compromise"": Senior prison managers" views of law, human rights and prisoner complaints in Germany, Incarceration, 4, 2023, p1 - 20 Journal Article, 2023 DOI
Social Rehabilitation and Torture Prevention Bodies in, editor(s)Adriano Martufi and Federica Coppola , Social Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice, Abingdon, Routledge , 2023, pp20 , [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2023 TARA - Full Text
Ireland: The weak European supervision of prison policies and its explanations in, editor(s)Gaëtan Cliquennois , The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe, Abingdon, 2022, pp13 , [Mary Rogan and Sophie van der Valk] Book Chapter, 2022 TARA - Full Text
Histories of Penal Oversight in, editor(s)Black, Lynsey Brangan, Louise Healy, Deirdre , Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery, Emerald, 2022, pp360 - 380, [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2022 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Examining the Role of Legal Culture as a Protective Factor Against High Rates of Pre-trial Detention: the Case of Ireland, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research , 2022 Journal Article, 2022 DOI
The two tales of prison litigation in Germany in, editor(s)Gaëtan Cliquennois , The Evolving Protection of Prisoners" Rights in Europe, Routledge , 2022, pp14 , [Morgenstern, Christine and Rogan, Mary ] Book Chapter, 2022
Ciara O'Connell and Mary Rogan, Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff, Law and Social Inquiry, 2022, p1 - 31 Journal Article, 2022
van der Valk, Sophie, Aizpurua, Eva, Rogan, Mary, "[Y]ou are better off talking to a f****** wall": The perceptions and experiences of grievance procedures among incarcerated people in Ireland, Law and Society Review, 2022 Journal Article, 2022 URL
Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan, Prisoners tell how they experience inspections and the complaints system, Ireland, 2021, 13 Report, 2021 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Prison Law in Ireland Enters Adulthood: Simpson v Governor of Mountjoy Prison, Irish Supreme Court Review, 3, 2021, p121 - 140 Journal Article, 2021 TARA - Full Text
van der Valk, Sophie, Aizpurua, Eva and Rogan, Mary, Towards a typology of prisoners' awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies, European Journal of Criminology, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 URL
Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, Correctional oversight bodies' resources and protections across the European Union: Are their hands tied?, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 URL
Ciara O'Connnell, Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, The European committee for the prevention of torture and the gendered experience of imprisonment, Crime, Law and Social Change, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 DOI
Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, Rights protection in prisons: Understanding recommendations-making by prison inspection and monitoring bodies in the European Union, Punishment and Society, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 URL
Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan, Prisoner Complaints Mechanisms: Assessing Human Rights Requirements and the Role of a General Ombudsman, European Public Law, 26, (4), 2020, p801 - 822 Journal Article, 2020 TARA - Full Text URL
Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan, Experiencing Human Rights Protections in Prisons: The Case of Prison Monitoring in Ireland, European Journal of Criminology, 18, (1), 2020, p101 - 119 Journal Article, 2020 URL TARA - Full Text
Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, Understanding New Actors in European Arrest Warrant Cases Concerning Detention Conditions: The Role, Powers and Functions of Prison Inspection and Monitoring Bodies, New Journal of European Criminal Law, 2020 Journal Article, 2020 URL
Ciara O''Connell and Mary Rogan , Rights and Recommendations: Prison Perspectives on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture' - Briefing Papers Shared with Prisons in Norway and Scotland, Ireland, 2020 Report, 2020 TARA - Full Text
In Conversation with Mary Rogan in, editor(s)Lynch, O., Ahmed, Y., Russell, H., Hosford, K. , Reflections on Irish Criminology, Cham, 2020, pp14 , [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2020
Minimising Prisonisation and the Harms of Custody in, editor(s)P.H.P.H.M.C Van Kempen and M. Jendly , Overuse in the Criminal Justice System: On Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment, Cambridge, Intersentia Ltd., 2019, pp213 - 228, [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2019
Mary Rogan, Prison Inspection and Monitoring: The Need to Reform European Law and Policy, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research , 2019, p1 - 21 Journal Article, 2019 TARA - Full Text
'Changing Ireland, Changing Law': Access to Justice and Understanding the Lived Experience in, editor(s)Edited by Laura Cahillane and Jennifer Schweppe , Case Studies in Legal Research Methodologies: Reflections on Theory and Practice , Dublin, Clarus Press Ltd. , 2019, pp81 - 99, [Mary Rogan and Ivana Bacik] Book Chapter, 2019
Mary Rogan, "What constitutes evidence of poor prison conditions after Aranyosi and Căldăraru? Examining the role of inspection and monitoring bodies in European Arrest Warrant decision-making" , New Journal of European Criminal Law, 10 , (3), 2019, p209 - 226 Journal Article, 2019 URL TARA - Full Text
Eva Aizpurúa, Mary Rogan , La situación de las prisiones y los centros de menores en España: Analizando las observaciones del CPT, Boletín Criminológico, 1, (182), 2019, p1-11 Journal Article, 2019 TARA - Full Text URL
Overusing the Criminal Justice System: the Case of Ireland in, editor(s)P.H.P.H.M.C. Van Kempen and M. Jendly , Overuse in the Criminal Justice System: On Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment, Cambridge, Intersentia Ltd., 2019, pp391 - 415, [Mary Rogan and Michael Reilly] Book Chapter, 2019
Mary Rogan, Human rights approaches to suicide in prison: implications for policy, practice and research, Health and Justice , 2018, phttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40352 Journal Article, 2018 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan and David Perry, Report on Expert Interviews, Ireland, 2018 Report, 2018 URL
Mary Rogan and David Perry , The Use of Pretrial Detention in Ireland: How Does the Legal Framework Operate in Practice?, Criminal Law and Practice Review, 2, 2018 Journal Article, 2018
Mary Rogan , Judges and resisting penal policy, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice , 57, (3), 2018, p321-338 Journal Article, 2018 TARA - Full Text
International human rights law and high risk offenders in, editor(s)Faye S. Taxman , Handbook on Risk and Need Assessment: Theory and Practice , New York, Routledge, 2017, pp447 - 464, [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2017
Mary Rogan, Human rights and correctional healthcare: a view from Europe, International Journal of Prisoner Health, 13, (1), 2017, p1-7 Journal Article, 2017 TARA - Full Text URL
Mary Rogan and David Perry, DETOUR - Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio, Country Briefs, Country Briefs, Ireland, November , 2017 Report, 2017 URL
Women in Prison and Ireland in, editor(s)Piet Hein van Kempen Maartje Krabbe , Women in Prison: The Bangkok Rules and Beyond , Intersentia, 2017, pp479 - 512, [Mary Rogan and Michael Reilly] Book Chapter, 2017
Walter Hammerschick, Christine Morgenstern, Skirmantas Bikelis, Miranda Boone, Ioan Durnescu, Alexia Jonckheere, Joep Lindeman, Eric Maes, Mary Rogan, DETOUR: Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio - Comparative Report, Vienna, Austria, December , 2017, 1-80 Report, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Remission of Prison Sentences: Emerging Principles, Dublin University Law Journal, 40, (1), 2017, p217 - 231 Journal Article, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Walter Hammerschick, Christine Morgenstern, Skirmantas Bikelis, Miranda Boone, Ioan Durnescu, Alexia Jonckheere, Joep Lindeman, Eric Maes, Mary Rogan , DETOUR - Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio, Comparative Report, Comparative Report, Ireland, December, 2017 Report, 2017 URL
The policymaking process and penal change in, editor(s)Deirdre Healy, Claire Hamilton, Yvonne Daly, Michelle Butler , The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology, Routledge, 2016, pp434 - 449, [Mary Rogan ] Book Chapter, 2016
David Perry and Mary Rogan , Pre-trial detention as a measure of last resort: first national report on Ireland, Dublin, 2016 Report, 2016 URL TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan and David Perry, DETOUR - Towards Pre-trial Detention as Ultima Ratio, Second National Report, Expert Interviews, Ireland, First national report , 2016 Report, 2016 TARA - Full Text
Community-based research in, editor(s)Laura Cahilliane Jennifer Schweppe , Legal Research Methods Principles and Practicalities, Dublin , Clarus Press, 2016, pp89 - 106, [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2016 TARA - Full Text
Reintegration of high-risk offenders - closing remarks on human rights issues in, editor(s)Frieder Duenkel Joerg Jesse Ineke Pruin Moritz von der Wense , European Treatment, Transition Management and Re-integration of High Risk Offenders, Forum Verlag Godesberg, 2016, pp239 - 243, [Mary Rogan] Book Chapter, 2016
Ivana Bacik and Mary Rogan, Legal Cases that Changed Ireland, Dublin , Clarus Press, 2016, 1-131pp Book, 2016
Mary Rogan, The European Court of Human Rights, Gross Disproportionality and Long Prison Sentences, Public Law, 1, 2015, p22 - 39 Journal Article, 2015
Mary Rogan, Book Review: O'Sullivan, E. & O'Donnell, E. (2012). Coercive Confinement in Ireland. Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, 2014, - Miscellaneous, 2014
Mary Rogan , Driving penal reform, 2014 Working Paper, 2014 URL
Mary Rogan , 'Out of balance: disproportionality in sentencing ', Penal Reform International , 2014, - Broadcast, 2014 URL
Mary Rogan, Prison Law, 1st, Bloomsbury Professional, 2014, 1 - 462pp Book, 2014 URL
The Penal System in Ireland: Pragmatism, Neglect and the Effects of Austerity in, editor(s)Vincenzo Ruggiero Mick Ryan , Penal Systems in Europe: A Critical Anatomy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp86 - 110, [Mary Rogan ] Book Chapter, 2014
Mary Rogan, 'Other status' and the rights of prisoners under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, European Human Rights Law Review , 6, 2013, p605 - 615 Journal Article, 2013
Mary Rogan, Prison policy in times of austerity: reflections from Ireland, Prison Service Journal, May, 2013, p9 - 15 Journal Article, 2013
Mary Rogan, Prisoners' rights and the separation of powers: comparing approaches in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales, Public Law, July, 2013, p415 - 425 Journal Article, 2013
Mary Rogan , Rehabilitation, Research and Reform: Prison Policy in Ireland , Irish Probation Journal, 9, 2012, p6 - 32 Journal Article, 2012
Mary Rogan, Brown, Governor of California v. Plata et al, Modern Law Review, 2012, p261 - 274 Journal Article, 2012
Mary Rogan, Improving Criminal Justice Data and Policy, Economic and Social Review, 43, (2), 2012, p303 - 323 Journal Article, 2012
Mary Rogan, Dealing with overcrowding in prisons: contrasting judicial approaches from the USA and Ireland, Irish Jurist, 47, 2012, p195- Journal Article, 2012
Mary Rogan, Book Review: O'Sullivan, E. & O'Donnell, I. Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, Review of Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, by E. O'Sullivan, I. O'Donnell , Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 14, (1), 2012, p74-76 Review, 2012
Mary Rogan, Day et al, Transitions to Better Lives, Review of Transitions to Better Lives: Offender Readiness and Rehabilitation, by A. Day, S. Casey, T. Ward, K. Howells, J. Vess , International Criminal Justice Review, 21, (2), 2011, p174-176 Review, 2011
Mary Rogan, Day et al, Transitions to Better Lives, 2011, - Miscellaneous, 2011
Mary Rogan, Yes (or no) Minister: the role of the Minister-senior civil servant dyad in the formation of prison policy in Ireland, Prison Journal, 91, (1), 2011, p32 - 56 Journal Article, 2011
Mary Rogan, The innocence rights of sentenced offenders, Irish Journal of Legal Studies, 2, 2011, p55 - 62 Journal Article, 2011 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Prison Policy in Ireland: Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment, 1st, Abingdon, Routledge, 2011, 1 - 246pp Book, 2011 URL
Mary Rogan, The Innocence Rights of Sentenced Offenders, Irish Journal of Legal Studies, 2, (1), 2011, p55 - 66 Journal Article, 2011 URL
Mary Rogan, B. Crewe, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, Review of The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, by B. Crew , International Criminal Justice Review, 21, (1), 2011, p81-83 Review, 2011
Mary Rogan, Charles Haughey, the Department of Justice and Irish Prison Policy during the 1960s, Administration, 57, (3), 2010, p65 - 86 Journal Article, 2010
Rogan, Mary, Crewe, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, 2010, - Miscellaneous, 2010
Mary Rogan, Tonry, Thinking about Punishment, 2010, - Miscellaneous, 2010
Mary Rogan, Tonry, Thinking about Punishment, Review of Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy across Time, Discipline, by M. Tonry , International Criminal Law Review, 10, (5), 2010, p870-972 Review, 2010
Mary Rogan, Prison policy in Ireland: an historical overview, Prison Service Journal, 186, 2009, p3-13- Journal Article, 2009
Mary Rogan, Visiting committees and accountability in the Irish prison system: some proposals for reform, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, 2009, p298 - 323 Journal Article, 2009
Mary Rogan, Extending the reach of the state into the post-sentence period: section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007, Dublin University Law Journal, 15, (1), 2009, p214- Journal Article, 2009
Mary Rogan, The Prison Rules 1947: Political Imprisonment, Politics and Legislative Change in Ireland, Irish Jurist, 43, 2008, p89- Journal Article, 2008
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Mary Rogan, The Irish prison system, 2024 Working Paper, 2024 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Prison Inspection and Monitoring, North South Criminology Conference, Queen's University Belfaast, 2024 Conference Paper, 2024
Mary Rogan, Deaths in Prison Custody, Deaths in Prisons, University of Oxford, 2022 Invited Talk, 2022
Mary Rogan, Comparing Prison Oversight: Rights, Rules and Realism , Comparative Penology Symposium , University of Strathclyde, October 2022, 2022, Ben Crewe (Cambridge) and Louise Brangan (Strathclyde) Invited Talk, 2022
Mary Rogan, Recent Developments in Prison Litigation, Irish Prison Service Senior Managers Strategy Day, Irish Prison Service College, Portlaoise, Ireland, June 2022, 2022, Irish Prison Service Invited Talk, 2022
Mary Rogan, Human Rights Perspectives on Mothering in Prisons, IN-CJ (International Network on Criminal Justice) Mothers and the Criminal Justice System, Online webinar, 16/05/2022, 2022, Dr Lucy Baldwin Invited Talk, 2022
Mary Rogan, Doing comparative research on prison oversight, Leiden University Comparative Law, 2021, Prof Miranda Boone Invited Talk, 2021
Mary Rogan, The Prison Rules: Current Impact and Opportunities for Reform, The Prison Rules: Current Impact and Opportunities for Reform, Online , 25/02/21, 2021, Irish Penal Reform Trust Invited Talk, 2021
Professor Mary Rogan, Presentation on the outcome of evaluation by the Council of Europe Development Bank of judicial infrastructure in Ireland, Paris, France, 23 January 2020, 2020 Invited Talk, 2020
Professor Mary Rogan, Dr. Ciara O'Connell, Sarah Curristan, Sophie van der Valk and Dr. Eva Aizpurua, "Experiencing a CPT visit - the impact on prisons and penal administrators", Thirty Years of monitoring prisons in Europe, KU Leuven, December 5 2019 , 2019 Invited Talk, 2019
Mary Rogan and Sophie Van der Valk, Complaints procedures in prisons and recent case law, Public Law Conference , UCD , 23rd May, 2019, 2019 Conference Paper, 2019
Mary Rogan, Prison inspection and monitoring bodies: a new role in the AFSJ?, EU Law and Detention Seminar, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 17 September 2019, 2019 Oral Presentation, 2019 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Battling the elements: capturing the hard to hear stories, Considerations and Challenges in Life Story Research, Trinity Long Room Hub, 6th June, 2019, 2019 Oral Presentation, 2019
Dr. Eva Aizpurua, Sophie van Der Valk, Sarah Curristan, 'Prisoners' and Staff views of Prison Oversight', Visiting Committee Training Day, IPS College, 2 December 2019, 2019 Oral Presentation, 2019
Ciara O'Connell, Eva Aizpurua and Mary Rogan, The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Gendered Experience of Imprisonment, Gender in Law and Courts: Uneasy Encounters?, European University Institute, 8 November 2019, 2019 Oral Presentation, 2019 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Reflection on Law, Brain Health and Diversity , Diversity and Brain Health: Perspectives from the LGBT+ Community in Ireland, Trinity Long Room Hub, 4th June, 2019, 2019, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) and the School of Law Invited Talk, 2019
Mary Rogan , Bail and the use of pre-trial detention in Ireland: findings from an empirical study, Meeting of the Judges of the District Court, 2018 Invited Talk, 2018
Mary Rogan, Sophie van der Valk, Sarah Curristan, Christine Morgenstern, Eva Aizpurua, Ray O'Keeffe, Revision of the European Prison Rules, Submission from PRILA to the Council for Penological Cooperation, July, 2018 Report, 2018 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, 'Behind the Door': Solitary Confinement in the Irish Penal System, The Irish Penal Reform Trust, Kilmainham, 2 February , 2018, The Irish Penal Reform Trust Invited Talk, 2018 URL
Mary Rogan, The Purposes of Punishment, Irish Prison Service (IPS) meeting of The Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) , Portlaoise, 12 June 18, 2018 Oral Presentation, 2018
Mary Rogan, The effects of incarceration and aging, Head Space 2018, Trinity College, Dublin, 27 April, 2018, Creative Aging International Invited Talk, 2018
Mary Rogan, human rights in prisons and the role of inspection and monitoring, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, 18 July, 2018, GBHI Invited Talk, 2018
Mary Rogan, The Future of Policing , Behind the Headlines, Synge Theatre, Trinity College, 21 February , 2018, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute Invited Talk, 2018 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, We have a rare window to reform justice system, 2018, - Miscellaneous, 2018 URL TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Bail and the use of pre-trial detention: findings from an empirical study , Criminal Law: Recent Developments and Emerging Trends, Trinity College, Dublin, 19 April , 2018, Trinity Law School Invited Talk, 2018 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Sophie van der Valk, Sarah Curristan, Christine Morgenstern, Eva Aizpurua, Ray O'Keeffe, Revision of the European Prison Rules, Submission from PRILA to the Council for Penological Cooperation, July, 2018 Report, 2018
Mary Rogan , Towards pre-trial detention as ultima ratio? Pre-trial detention and alternatives across Europe, Law Society Professional Training , Law Society of Ireland, 27th November, 2018, 2018 Oral Presentation, 2018 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on the Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017, 5 December , 2018 Invited Talk, 2018 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Justice in Transition: improving the penal policymaking process, Probation Board for Northern Ireland Annual Conference, Belfast, 15 March, 2018, Probation Board for Northern Ireland Invited Talk, 2018
Mary Rogan, Pre-trial detention in Ireland, Pre-trial detention conference, University of Leiden, 2018 Invited Talk, 2018
Mary Rogan and Penal Policy Review Group, Fifth Report of the Implementation Oversight Group to the Minister for Justice and Equality , Fifth, Dublin, 2018 Report, 2018 TARA - Full Text URL
Mary Rogan, Through the lens of liberty or detention: the starting point for decisions on pre-trial detention, DETOUR conference, Vienna, November , 2017, DETOUR Invited Talk, 2017
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Oversight of Prisons: the position of the European Court of Human Rights, The Society of Legal Scholars Conference Annual Conference Dublin 2017 'The Diverse Unities of Law', Dublin, September 2017, 2017 Conference Paper, 2017
Mary Rogan, Sarah Curristan, Ray O'Keefe, Sophie van der Valk , Submission on the Proposed Inspectorate for Places of Detention , May, 2017 Report, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Revision of the commentary to the European Prison Rules: inspection and monitoring, Council for Penological Cooperation, Strasbourg, November , 2017, Council of Europe Invited Talk, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan and Sophie van der Valk, Ireland and OPCAT six years on: have things changed?, Ireland, 2017 Report, 2017 URL
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons in the commentary to the European Prison Rules , PCCP Plenary Meeting, Strasbourg, France, 2017 Invited Talk, 2017
Mary Rogan, Correctional oversight: comparing Europe and the USA, American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 2017, 2017 Conference Paper, 2017
Mary Rogan, European Human Rights Law and Death in Prison: Obligation and Reforms, ESRC funded conference on Death in Punishment, School of Law, University of Sheffield, 25 October 2017, 2017 Conference Paper, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons: the role of European human rights law, European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, September 2017, 2017 Conference Paper, 2017
Mary Rogan, The evolving role of imprisonment in Ireland, Law Society Annual Human Rights Conference, Dublin, October , 2017, Law Society Invited Talk, 2017
Mary Rogan, Inspection and monitoring of prisons, Ethics of Vulnerability conference, Dublin, November , 2017, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Invited Talk, 2017
Mary Rogan, Inspection and Oversight of Prisons: the position of the European Court of Human Rights, The Society of Legal Scholars Conference Annual Conference Dublin 2017 'The Diverse Unities of Law', Dublin, September 2017, 2017 Conference Paper, 2017
Mary Rogan, Solitary confinement and the role of the courts, Solitary Confinement and the Role of the Courts in the USA and Ireland, Dublin, September 2017, 2017 Conference Paper, 2017
Mary Rogan, Sarah Curristan, Ray O'Keefe, Sophie van der Valk, Submission from PRILA to the Irish Prison Service on the Code of Ethical Behaviours, Ireland, 2017 Report, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan , Landmarks in Irish penal history, Parnell Summer School, Avondale, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, August , 2017 Invited Talk, 2017
Mary Rogan, Sarah Curristan, Ray O'Keefe, Sophie van der Valk, Submission from PRILA to the Council for Penological Cooperation : Revision of the Commentary to the European Prison Rules, Dublin, August, 2017 Report, 2017 TARA - Full Text
Mary Rogan , Current issues in the Irish Prison System, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2016 Invited Talk, 2016
Mary Rogan , Internal Prison Inspection: Human Rights standards and examples of practice in Europe, 2016, - Miscellaneous, 2016
Mary Rogan , Prison inspection: international human rights standards, Skopje, FYRO Macedonia, 2016, Council of Europe Invited Talk, 2016
Mary Rogan , 'The Syrian who did us all some service by suing the State" ', The Irish Times , 2016, - Broadcast, 2016 URL
Lynsey Black and Mary Rogan , The Inspector of Prisons' reports into deaths in custody, the National Steering Committee on Deaths in Custody, 2016 Invited Talk, 2016
Mary Rogan , Overuse of imprisonment and minimising prisonisation, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation Colloquium , Helsinki, Finland, 2016 Invited Talk, 2016
Ivana Bacik Mary Rogan , Briefing Paper on the findings of 'Changing Ireland, Changing Law , 2016, - Miscellaneous, 2016
Mary Rogan , 'La renición de cuentas en nuestras prisones', Justicia+, El Institutio de Justicia Procesal Penal, Mexico, 2015, - Broadcast, 2015 URL
Mary Rogan , Remission of sentences, Constitutional Law: An Update, University College Dublin , 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Prisons and the law, National University of Ireland/Maynooth. , 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Prison inspection: purpose and principles, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015, Council of Europe Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Penal policy: politics, penal-welfarism and political imprisonment , Pitzer College, California/United States of America., 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Prison Law: remission and visits , Dublin City University/Ireland, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Legal issues and solitary confinement: the Irish perspective , American Society of Criminology Conference, Roundtable Sessions, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan , Parenting and prisons: a human rights perspective, Conference on prison education and re-entry, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Prisons and accountability: the role of rights' protection , Human Rights Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan , How Ireland might ratify OPCAT, Conference on Securing Accountability , Dublin, Ireland, 2015, Irish Penal Reform Trust Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, Release and visits , Criminal Law Forum of practitioners and academics , King's Inns, Dublin, Ireland, 2015 Invited Talk, 2015
Mary Rogan, 'What happens when a pregnant woman or nursing mother gets sent to jail', thejournal.ie, 2014, - Broadcast, 2014 URL
Mary Rogan, The European Convention on Human Rights and the treatment and transition management of high risk offenders , Justice Cooperation Network, Warnemuende/Germany, 2014 Invited Talk, 2014
Mary Rogan, The Rule of Law and Access to Justice in Prisons, Burren Law School, Burren/Ireland, 2014 Invited Talk, 2014
Mary Rogan , '"Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in prison', Pregnancy Research Network , 2014, - Broadcast, 2014 URL
Mary Rogan , Models of penal reform, US-European Criminal Justice Innovation Programme, 2014, University of California, San Francisco, Prison Law Office Invited Talk, 2014
Mary Rogan, Understanding penal change: north and south , Irish Criminology Conference, University College Dublin/Ireland, 2014 Invited Talk, 2014
Mary Rogan, The role of the courts in Ireland; Improving conditions related to detention, European Rights Academy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg , 2014 Invited Talk, 2014
Mary Rogan, Prison Policy in Ireland, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin/Ireland, 2014 Invited Talk, 2014
Mary Rogan, Driving penal reform, Scottish Association for the Study of Offending, Dunblane/Scotland, 2013 Invited Talk, 2013
Mary Rogan, Prison Conditions Under Irish Law and the European Convention on Human Rights , Dublin , 2012, 1-27 Report, 2012 URL
Rogan, Mary, Deaths in Prison Custody: Information for Families and Others Affected, Dublin , Irish Penal Reform Trust, June, 2012, 1-28 Report, 2012 URL
Mary Rogan, Taking Prison Law Cases: A Practical Approach, Dublin , 2012, 1-11 Report, 2012 URL
Mary Rogan, Rehabilitation, research and reform: Prison policy in Ireland, Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture, Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development, Dublin/Ireland, 2012 Invited Talk, 2012
Mary Rogan, Accountability Structures and the Law Regulating Irish Prisons , Dublin , Irish Penal Reform Trust , June, 2012, 1-29 Report, 2012
Mary Rogan, The Determinants of Penal Policy in Ireland, Society for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, Chambery/France, 2011 Invited Talk, 2011
Mary Rogan, , , 1998 Journal Article, 1998
Research Expertise
Projects
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- Prison Oversight: Improving Rights in Europe
- Summary
- This project offers support and training to people in prison and officials to enhance their ability to engage with international prison monitoring and thus enhance human rights compliance in prisons.
- Funding Agency
- European Research Council
- Date From
- 01/03/2024
- Date To
- 31/08/2024
- Title
- Prisons: the rule of law, accountability and rights
- Summary
- This project aims: 1. To find out whether 'accountability' is a distinctive norm of the European legal system, and what European prison law and policy requires regarding the oversight and monitoring of prisons; 2. To find out how accountability is experienced by prisoners, prison staff and staff of bodies such as Ombudsmen, inspectors, and bodies which deal with complaints; 3. To create a typology of accountability bodies in European prison systems, and examine the relationship between the presence of such bodies and other indicators of prison regimes. Dr. Rogan will lead a team of three postdoctoral researchers, two PhD students, an MPhil student and a research assistant to carry out the work.
- Funding Agency
- European Research Council
- Date From
- 2016
- Date To
- 2021
- Title
- Towards pre-trial detention as ultima ratio?
- Summary
- This project examines the use of pre-trial detention and alternatives to such detention across Europe. It involves work in Ireland, Romania, Austria, Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands. It will analyse pre-trial detention practices, with a particular focus on decisions which have a cross-border element,
- Funding Agency
- European Commission DG Justice
- Date From
- 2016
- Date To
- end 2017
- Title
- Leadership, culture and managing prisons: knowledge exchange between the USA and Europe
- Summary
- LEADERS will build a global network of innovative prison leaders engaged in progressive reforms to prison systems, the NGO partner, the Irish Penal Reform Trust, and the academic and NGO sectors in Ireland and the USA. LEADERS provides masterclasses and opportunities for reflection by prison leaders in selected US states and European countries. Participants will be invited to take part in research examining the challenges faced by prison leaders. LEADERS fulfils a core aim of the NGO partner - to support prison leadership to implement policy change.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 01/01/17
- Date To
- 30/09/17
Keywords
accountability in prisons; human rights in prison; Prison; Prison Law; prison oversight; prison policy; prison policy in ireland; Prisoner health
Recognition
Representations
Panel Member SH2, ERC Starting Grant applications. 2022
Secretary General, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation 2022
President, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire, a 150 year old body with members across five continents with the aim of promoting studies in crime prevention and penal policy. 2020
Member of international editorial board, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 2018
Appointed by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality as Chairperson of the Implementation and Oversight Group for the Report of the Strategic Review Group on Penal Policy 2015 -
Member. Research Advisory Group, Howard League for Penal Reform (UK) 2019
Member, Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Department of Justice 2018
Member of the inaugural Department of Justice and Equality Research Advisory Group 07/18 -
Reviewer Canadian Journal of Law and Society 2021
Reviewer Punishment and Society 2021
Consultant on review of funding to build Cork Prison and a youth detention centre for the Council of Europe Development Bank 2019
Consultant on human rights and prison issues, Council of Europe for projects in Ukraine and North Macedonia 2019
Reviewer, research grant applications, National Science Centre, Poland 2021
Reviewer and panel member for ERC mock interviews, SSH applicants, Irish Research Council 2017
Member, Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Office of the Inspector of Prisons 2019
Elected to the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation in respect of Ireland (representing academia; the two other representatives being Vivan Geiran, Director of the Probation Service and the Hon. Ms. Justice Úna Ní Raifertaigh, judge of the Court of Appeal). 2013 -
Appointed by the Central Statistics Office to the Expert Group on Crime Statistics 2015 -
Member Advisory Group, ERC-funded RECEDE project (University of Nottingham) 2022
Presented on bail and pre-trial detention to Oireachtas sub-committee on Justice 2019
Reviewer British Journal of Criminology 2021
Member of the interim Board of the Victims' Rights Alliance 2016 -
Reviewer, Routledge 2012 -
Member Advisory group ESRC funded project on Deaths in Custody University of Nottingham 2019
Board member, Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders 2010-
Reviewer, Child and Family Law Quarterly 2018
Reviewer, Theoretical Criminology 2020
Appointed by the Minister for Justice and Equality to the Working Group conducting a Strategic Review of Penal Policy in Ireland 2013
Invited research collaborator, Confederation of European Probation 2017 -
Chairperson, Advisory Board, Prisoner Support Network (Pathways Project and Care After Prison) 2015
Chairperson, Irish Penal Reform Trust (foremost NGO on penal affairs in Ireland) 2010 - 2014
External Examiner, Sligo Institute of Technology, (Higher Certificate in Custodial Care, Law programmes) 2010
External Examiner, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University/Ireland: LLB (Law and Society) and LLM programmes 2015 -
External Examiner, Criminal Justice, Waterford Institute of Technology/Ireland 2015 -
Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan 2014 -
Reviewer, University of Monash Law Review 2014 -
External Examiner, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (Law) 2009
Academic Advisor, Trinity College Law Review 2006 -
Organiser of a public event on 'Changing Ireland, Changing Law' selected for inclusion in PROBE: Research Uncovered event at Trinity College Dublin/Ireland 2016
Presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on research into public interest law and strategic litigation 2015
Presentation on "The impact of ERC funding", European Research Council Day, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin/Ireland 2016
Awards and Honours
Best Civic Engagement Project, Trinity Civic Engagement Award 2022
Law School Nominee for Trinity College Dublin Graduate Supervision Prize 2022
Secretary General, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation 2022
President, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation 2021
Honorary Lifetime Member, Irish Penal Reform Trust 2014
British Institute of International and Comparative Law Visiting Fellowship 2014
Teaching Excellence Award/Dublin Institute of Technology 2012
James Murnaghan Memorial Prize/Honorable Society of King's Inns 2010
Simms'' prize for best performance in BCL examination in Crime, Justice and the Penal System/University of Oxford 2004
Trinity College Postgraduate Studentship/Trinity College Dublin 2004-2007
Graduate Bursary/University of Oxford 2004
Selected by Trinity College Dublin to participate in the LFHE Aurora programme 2016-2017
Réalt Scholarship/Dublin Institute of Technology 2008-2010
Memberships
Secretary General of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire 2021 – 2022
Member, Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Office of the Inspector of Prisons, Ireland 2018
President, International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation 2022
Member, The Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, UK 2020
Chair, Implementation and Oversight Group for the Review of Penal Policy (appointed by the Minister for Justice) 2014 – 2020
Member, Howard League for Penal Reform (UK) Research Advisory Group 2020
Member for Ireland and Voting Member, the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation/Fondation Internationale Pénale et Pénitentiaire 2014
Member, Advisory Group to ERC-funded project RECEDE, University of Nottingham 2022
Member, Penal Policy Review Group (appointed by the Minister for Justice) 2013 – 2014
Member, Expert Group on Crime Statistics (with the Central Statistics Office) - set up to carry out a comprehensive review of the collection, publication and methodology for crime statistics in Ireland 2018 – 2019
Member Inaugural Research Advisory Group, Department of Justice, Ireland 2018
Director, Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders 2012 – 2020
Chairperson, Irish Penal Reform Trust 2010 – 2014
Member, Division on Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of Criminology 2012 – 2022
Member of the Board, Victims' Rights Alliance 2016 – 2020
Convenor, 'Cultural and Legal Lives of Incarceration' Network, Law and Society Association 2011 – 2013