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Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) aims to support the development of restorative justice across Europe. In ten countries, a core group of four persons – the ‘Core Members’ – are collaborating with local policymakers, practitioners, researchers, activists and other interested parties – the ‘Stakeholder Group’ – to co-create national strategies to guide their work.
This website hosts the work of the Irish partners. Focusing on the criminal justice system, we collected case studies illustrating the use of restorative justice and restorative practices, and conducted a mapping exercise on the training and use of restorative justice. We also published other resources to help increase knowledge of restorative justice and practices in Ireland, and support the development of services, policies and practices in this area.
This research and website are funded by the Department of Justice.
Restorative Justice:
Strategies for Change – Ireland
International RJ week events; Mother and Baby Homes reports cite restorative practices – November update
November update - International Restorative Justice Week events; Mother and Baby Homes reports cite restorative practices Events for International...
Blogs reviewing Stronger, research on supporting victims in restorative justice, and seeking interviewees published; jobs, events, articles and videos – October update
October update - Blogs reviewing Stronger, research on supporting victims in restorative justice, and seeking interviewees published; jobs,...
New infographics available; Stronger beginning this month; review of Michael Inside published – September update
September update - New infographics available; Stronger beginning this month; review of Michael Inside published Infographics on restorative justice...
New infographics now available on restorative justice in Ireland
We are very grateful to the Department of Justice Service Design and Customer Insights teams for working with us in recent months to develop two...
New case study in Castlerea; Q&A with playwright of Stronger; annual reports published – August update
August update - New case study in Castlerea; Q&A with playwright of Stronger; annual reports published New case study published on peer...
Case Studies
Service Map
With funding from the Department of Justice, RJS4C Ireland is map the training and use of restorative justice and restorative practices in Irish criminal justice.
You can see our initial findings here; please contact us if you have any further information for us to include.
Stronger – Review by Dr. Fionnuala Brennan and Raphael O’Keefe
Stronger – Review by Dr. Fionnuala Brennan (Programme Leader, Higher Certificate in Custodial Care, Waterford Institute of Technology) and Raphael...
Helping victims achieve their restorative justice goals with different degrees of offender participation
Dr. Diana Batchelor Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford Sometimes offenders don’t take full responsibility for the crimes they have...
Request for interviewees for a non-fiction publication about incarceration
David Monaghan - Writer & Journalist davidanthonymonaghan@gmail.com Please see below for a message from Irish journalist and writer David...
Stronger – Review by Priyangee Guha
Stronger – A play that makes us re-evaluate the meaning of justice Stronger is written by Geoff Power and directed by Paul Meade. The play was...
Michael Inside – Review
Michael Inside – Review Jenny Finlay, Katrina Mendham & Andrea Pownall Research Assistants, Maynooth University Department of Law Michael Inside...
Our Strategy
In June 2019, RJS4C Ireland published its national strategy to develop restorative justice in Ireland.
Resources
On our Resources pages, you can find a wide range of information, including links to Irish laws, strategies and policies, summaries of research, and videos, podcasts, news stories and other multimedia resources on restorative justice in Ireland and elsewhere in the world.
Please let us know if there is anything else that you would like us to include in these pages, or any research that you would like us to summarise.