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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
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...
Press release: New research finds significant year-on-year increase in restorative justice referrals
New research finds significant year-on-year- increase in restorative justice referrals Restorative justice referrals increased by 88% in 2024 to...
Probation RJ Action Plan published, update your service profiles, RJ in the news – summer 2025 update
Summer 2025 update - Probation RJ Action Plan published, update your service profiles, RJ in the news Restorative justice in policy and strategy...
Mapping exercise update, restorative justice in Programme for Government and official reports – spring 2025 update
Spring 2025 update - Mapping exercise update, restorative justice in Programme for Government and official reports Mapping exercise 2024 – update...
Post-election manifesto round-up – Christmas 2024 update
Christmas 2024 update - Post-election manifesto round-up, employment and training opportunities Post-election manifesto round-up Among the parties...
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.
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...
Restorative justice referrals and completions in 2024 (full dataset)
Restorative justice referrals and completions in 2024 (full dataset) On a mobile device? Please view the below table in landscape. Service Referrals...
Restorative justice referrals increase, provision expands, in 2024
The year 2024 is the sixth year for which we have collected and published data to map the use of restorative justice in Ireland’s criminal...
Pre-sentence restorative conferencing reduces future court appearances and reoffending severity for adults – findings from Australia
Pre-sentence restorative conferencing reduces future court appearances and reoffending severity for adults - findings from Australia By Dr Stephanie...
Legitimising restorative justice to the community – recent research from Northern Ireland
Legitimising restorative justice to the community - recent research from Northern Ireland By Dr. Allely Albert, Lecturer in Criminology, Queen's...
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.