Professor Mary Corcoran
Small Group Project 2022-23
Generative Justice: Exploring how communities re/create solidarity after crime and punishment
With Beth Weaver & Fergus McNeill
This project draws on the extensive experience and skills of the Co-Investigators and their networks (academic and activist) to explore the concept of 'Generative Justice' and to devise an approach to studying and developing it together.
More informationResearch outcomes
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McNeill, F., Corcoran, M., & Weaver, B. (Eds.). (2026).
Generative Justice. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
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Biography
Mary Corcoran was awarded her PhD in Criminology from Liverpool John Moores University (2004). She was Lecturer at Liverpool JM University and Bath University prior to her appointment as Lecturer in Criminology at Keele in 2005. Mary was promoted to Senior Lecturer (2014), Reader (2019) and Professor (2021).
Mary is a Criminologist with an international reputation in the fields of political imprisonment, women in custody, the voluntary sector and justice, and marketisation in criminal justice domains. She conducts research which advances theoretical challenges to societal reliance on imprisonment, and works extensively with civil society and public organisations to find applied, humanitarian responses to harms arising from crime and punishment.
Mary is a Criminologist with an international reputation in the fields of political imprisonment, women in custody, the voluntary sector and justice, and marketisation in criminal justice domains. She conducts research which advances theoretical challenges to societal reliance on imprisonment, and works extensively with civil society and public organisations to find applied, humanitarian responses to harms arising from crime and punishment.
Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26