Jane Mulcahy

School of Law

Jane Mulcahy is an Irish Research Council-funded employment-based PhD scholar in the School Of Law at UCC. Her research is co-funded by the Probation Service and the employment partner is the Cork Alliance Centre

"The legal system is reliant on a jury verdict in sexual violence cases, but fails to educate jurors of the neurobiology of stress and survival." Photo: iStock

The "fight/flight/freeze" responses to sexual violence

People of all ages need to be informed about tonic immobility and sexual violence

Sexual violence • 11 Oct 18

Proposed changes to parole system require more scrutiny

There are a number of issues over changes to how Ireland's Parole Board operates which need to be resolved

Parole • 01 Jun 18

We need to see "superior strategies for interacting with unrecovered trauma survivors". Photo: iStock

The huge costs of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Opinion: there is increasing evidence that the greater the ratio of childhood trauma, the more detrimental the impact will be on a person over their ...

Society • 23 Feb 18

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