ABSTRACT
Internationally, there has been much discussion of the relationship between “race” and policing, in particular highlighting the vulnerabilities and racialising interactions experienced by Black and minority ethnic people in police custody. Disproportionate rates of death in custody are documented even while many experiences of mistreatment in custody go unobserved. In this chapter, the factors affecting custody entry and experiences are explored as they relate to minority ethnic and migrant groups internationally, and questions relating to the experience for those in Ireland begin to emerge. The lack of equality data collection and publication in Ireland sets the context for a limited academic literature in this jurisdiction, and it is within this context that a range of contested issues begins to emerge in the public sphere around the pre-custody and custody experiences of Ireland’s racialised minorities.
