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 building, sustaining, and developing purposeful relationships between youth justice practitioners and young people to achieve...
RJS4C partners publish project review
In December 2025, Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) Core Members in Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Scotland published an article, entitled, Engaging With Policymakers and Practitioners to Implement Restorative Justice in Europe: Lessons...
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 Valk (Research Assistant in Restorative Justice, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology; Senior Postdoctoral...
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 justice process. Datasets were previously published for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 (together) and 2023. These data suggest...