Kevin Warner – Publications and Research
How Adult Literacy Students See Their Problems; and Implications of These Views for Conventional Education. Unpublished M.Ed. thesis, University of Liverpool. 1983.
Adult Education in Prison. In The Adult Learner, Vol.1, No.4. 1988.
Education in Prisons. In Prison Information Bulletin, Nos.13 and 14, pp.4-11. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.1989.
Council of Europe. Education in Prison. Strasbourg. 1990. [Chairperson of Expert Group and main author of Recommendation and report].
Prison Education in Ireland. In Duguid, S. Yearbook of Correctional Education 1990. Burnaby: Simon Fraser University. 1990.
The Council of Europe Report on Education in Prison: An Adult Education Perspective. In Yearbook of Correctional Education 1991. Burnaby: Simon Fraser University. 1991.
Education in Prison: Developing the Whole Person. In How High the Walls: Report on International Conference on Prison Education, Bergen, The Netherlands. Enschede: National Institute for Curriculum Development. 1991.
Working Through an Adult Education Model: Prison Education in Ireland. In Yearbook of Correctional Education 1993. San Bernardino: California State University. 1993.
Special Issue on International Prison Education. In Journal of Correctional Education, Vol. 47, Issue 2, pp.56-57. 1996.[Guest Editor].
The Issue of Motivation in Prison Education. In Penological Information Bulletin, No. 21, pp.21-24. Strasbourg: Council of Europe. 1998.
The ‘Prisoners are People’ Perspective – and the Problems of Promoting Learning Where this Outlook is Rejected. In Journal of Correctional Education, Vol. 49, Issue 3, pp.118-132. 1998.
Should We Judge Education by Recidivism Rates? In Correctional Education Association News and Notes, Vol.22, No. 2, April 2000, pp.8-9. 2000.
Widening and Deepening the Education We Offer Those in Prison: Reflections from Irish and European Experience. In Journal of Correctional Education, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pp.32-37. 2002.
Penal Policy and the Adult Education of Prisoners. In O’Mahony, P. (ed). Criminal Justice in Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration. 2002.
Against the Narrowing of Perspectives: How Do We See Learning, Prisons and Prisoners? In Journal of Correctional Education, Vol. 58, Issue 2, pp.170-183. 2007.
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A European Perspective on Nordic Prison Systems and Prison Education. Paper presented to Nordic Conference on Prison Education, Tromso, Norway, 25 May 2008.
Resisting the New Punitiveness? Penal Policy in Denmark, Finland and Norway. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College, Dublin. 2009.
Valued members of society? Social inclusiveness in the characterisation of prisoners in Ireland, Denmark, Finland and Norway. In Administration, Vol.59, No.1, pp.87-109. 2011.
Analysis articles in Irish Times and Irish Examiner. A range of articles on penal policy published between 2010 and 2014. [Most of these are available elsewhere on the website]
The representation of the person held in prison, and the impact of this on prison education. [Paper presented at the Scandinavian Studies in Confinement (SSC) seminar, Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden, November 2011.
Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. The Irish Prison System: Values, Vision, Reality. 2012. [Substantial contributor to this detailed policy paper]. Available at
Redefining standards downwards: the deterioration of basic living conditions in Irish prisons, and the failure of policy. In Working Notes, issue 70, October 2012. Available on
Resisting the New Punitiveness: Penal Policy in Denmark, Finland and Norway – and some lessons for Ireland. In CRIMSOC: the Journal of Social Criminology. Special Report 2, 2013. Available at
Regimes in Irish Prisons: ‘inhumane’ and ‘degrading’: an analysis and the outline of a solution. In Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2014. Available at
(Editor, with Eoin Carroll). Re-Imagining Imprisonment: Effects, Failures and the Future. Dublin: Liffey Press, 2014
(With Anne Costelloe)Prison Education Across Europe: policy, practice, politics. In The London Review of Education, July 2014. Available at
[Many of the above articles are available on the PEPRE website]