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Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) supports the development of restorative justice in Europe by facilitating the co-creation of national strategies. This website hosts the Irish arm of the project, including case studies, service profiles, research and other resources.
The Department of Justice funded the initial mapping exercise and case study collection in 2021, and funded the website itself from 2021-2023.
Restorative Justice:
Strategies for Change – Ireland
Press release – New research finds year-on-year increase in restorative justice referrals and victim participation in 2025
Press release - New research finds year-on-year increase in restorative justice referrals and victim participation in 2025 Growing restorative...
Restorative justice referrals, victim participation, increase again in 2025
Restorative justice referrals, victim participation, increase again in 2025 This is the seventh annual collection and publication of data to map the...
RJS4C partners publish project review
In December 2025, Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) Core Members in Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Scotland published...
Briefings published: realising victims’ right to information about restorative justice
In November, Dr. Ian Marder (Associate Professor in Criminology, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology) and Dr. Sophie van der...
Realising the right of victims to information about restorative justice – International RJ Week 2025 update
New briefing: Realising victims’ right to receive information about restorative justice in Ireland The VICINFO Project explored the barriers to...
Case Studies
Service Map
With funding from the Department of Justice, RJS4C Ireland has mapped the 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.
Restorative justice referrals, victim participation, increase again in 2025
Restorative justice referrals, victim participation, increase again in 2025 This is the seventh annual collection and publication of data to map the...
Restorative justice referrals and completions in 2025, full dataset
Restorative justice referrals and completions in 2025 (full dataset, cases involving adult offenders unless stated) On a mobile device? Please view...
Power and Accountability in Restorative justice
By Ngaire Rasmussen Challenges of power and accountability in restorative justice Restorative justice (RJ) is a way of responding to harm and crime...
Linking Restorative Practice and Relationship Building in Youth Diversion Projects
By Dr Eoin O’Meara Daly and Edel Kelly, REPPP, School of Law, University of Limerick. Relationship practice in youth justice emphasises...
How our conference on empathy shows the way forward for justice in Ireland
By Simon Keating, Restorative Justice Programme Coordinator, Le Chéile Monitoring The annual Le Chéile Restorative Justice Conference took...
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.
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