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An Exploration Of How Gardaí Perceive Whistleblowing In An Garda Síochána., Aodhán Healy
An Exploration Of How Gardaí Perceive Whistleblowing In An Garda Síochána., Aodhán Healy
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An Garda Síochána was established in 1922 as the national police force of the Irish state and has undergone organisational, developmental, growth and cultural change siical Unce inception in line with societal, legislative and governmental demands throughout the intervening 97 years. In more recent times and in tandem with this growth expansion and development, there has also grown a maleficent and damaging culture within the force where a culture of secrecy and lack of transparent function has emerged, whereby whistle-blowers of bad practice have been bullied and vilified for highlighting wrongdoing in the organisation. Following formal tribunals of enquiry and …
A Decade Of Desistance: An Exploratory Study In Desistance Theory, Brendan Marsh
A Decade Of Desistance: An Exploratory Study In Desistance Theory, Brendan Marsh
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The purpose of this research paper is to explore the lived experience of five ex-offenders who have not offended for a minimum period of ten years. How, and why, these individuals have maintained their crime free status shall be explored in detail in an attempt to understand the causal process that permits successful long term desistance from crime. Furthermore the desisting ex-offenders in this study are also ex-drug addicts. Exactly how criminal offending and drug addiction interacted in the past lives of the people is documented, as is the impossibility of abstaining from one of these behaviours only. This necessitates …