Welcome!
Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) supports the development of restorative justice in Europe. In ten countries, our project partners collaborate with a stakeholder group of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, activists and other parties to co-create and implement new national strategies.
This website hosts the work of the Irish partners. Focusing on criminal justice, we collect case studies illustrating the use of restorative justice and restorative practices, and map their training and use. We also publish resources to increase knowledge of restorative justice and practices in Ireland, and work to 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
New Citizens’ Information page, Ireland represented at EFRJ conference, Scottish services launched – June 2022 update
June 2022 update - New Citizens' Information page, Ireland represented at EFRJ conference, Scottish services launched New Citizens’...
New article, blog and research summaries published, RJS4C meets in Tallinn – May 2022 update
May 2022 update - New article, blog and research summaries published, RJS4C meets in Tallinn New article published - mapping restorative justice...
RJS4C partners hold annual meeting in Tallinn, Estonia
On 19-20 May 2022, Core Members from participating countries in Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) came together for their annual...
Article on mapping exercise published in the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
In 2021, this website published the data and initial analysis from our mapping exercise to measure and capture the use of restorative justice and...
Restorative justice in the Oireachtas and Justice Plan 2022, open jobs in the field – April 2022 update
April 2022 update - Restorative justice in the Oireachtas and Justice Plan 2022, open jobs in the field of restorative justice service provision...
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.
A While in the Making: An Adult Restorative Justice Strategy for Northern Ireland
Lisa Higgins Reducing Offending Directorate - Department of Justice, Northern Ireland The use of restorative approaches in Northern Ireland’s youth...
How the Venice Declaration contributes to the international restorative justice framework
Dr. Ian D. Marder - Assistant Professor in Criminology, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology Dr. Petra Masopust Šachová - Chairperson,...
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...
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.