Student handbook

School of Languages, Law and Social Sciences

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  An Investigation into the Nature and Incidence of Juvenile Prostitution in Dublin
  
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  Victimisation and Youth Offending in Dublin Inner City
  
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  Reintegration and Desistance among Marginalised Ex-Prisoners
  
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  Reintegrating Young Adult Ex-Prisoners: The Role and Significance of the Community Context
  
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  Video-Link Evidence in Child Witness Trials: An Evaluation of its Effectiveness.
  
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  Intergenerational Domestic Violence
  
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  An Investigation into the Nature and Incidence of Child Sexual Abuse in Tanzania
  
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  Leaving Care and Homelessness: The Continued Exclusion of those most Vulnerable
  
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  Reducing Youth Offending: The Role, requirements and Context of Parental Responsibility
  
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  Young People’s Experience of Crime
  
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  Community Service Orders versus Short Custodial Sentences
  
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  Policy-Making Process and Post Release Orders
  
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  Impact of Deaths in Prison on Prison Staff
  

The School’s social sciences staff has developed as a well-established and recognised ‘centre of excellence’ in the fields of Social Care and Early Childhood Education. The Department has been at the forefront of professional training in Early Childhood Education and Social Care in Ireland for 40 years.

Key School Policies

Policy on Recording of Lectures

Students must seek prior approval from the lecturer before using any recording devices in class. Typically, permission will be granted only to students registered with the Disability Office. Recordings of lectures are for personal study only and not for distribution to others. In order to respect the right to privacy of students, the lecturer should inform the student body that the lecture is being recorded.
Occasionally, students will not be permitted to record lectures when the lecturer knows that sensitive or personal issues may be discussed (examples could include teaching in the areas of abnormal psychology; counselling skills; communication and group work skills; child protection). The decision to allow or restrict recording will be at the lecturer’s discretion.
Kevin Lalor, Head of School of Social Sciences and Law

September 2013

Policy on Plagiarism

To plagiarise is to pass off the thoughts, writings, work of another as one’s own. For example, inserting extracts from a textbook into one’s essay, without acknowledging the source; buying an essay off the internet and submitting it as your own.
In academia plagiarism is a serious offence and may lead to disciplinary action, for both students and lecturers. For example, in Spring 2005 a Professor George Carney of Oklahoma State University was forbidden by his university to teach as he “stole passages from a slew of authors over the years, sometimes taking entire paragraphs word for word” (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4^th March 2005). In another high profile case in 2002 at the University of Virginia, 45 students were expelled and three had their qualifications revoked for plagiarism (details at www.cnn.com/education). Of course, students are expected to read the ideas of others and use them in their essays. However, the work must be fully referenced. The Department of Social Sciences has adopted the American Psychological Association (APA) system of referencing in text and bibliography (please refer to the thesis handbook for further information and the Department of Social Sciences website for further information). The purpose of the Department’s plagiarism policy is not to catch students out. Rather, it is to teach you the proper academic conventions of referencing and acknowledging your sources and to ensure that the work you submit is your own.

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