⚠️ We expect high demand. Priority booking is available to ACJRD members, with general registration opening in the coming weeks.
🎟️ Tickets:
€50 (members)
€80 (non-members)
Become a member of ACJRD ➡️ www.acjrd.ie/get-involved...
We’ll bring together leading experts to examine how structural supports like housing, healthcare, and education can align with practical, environment-focused strategies.
The goal: designing safer, more resilient communities from the ground up.
Taking a holistic view, the conference recognises that the justice system often responds to the consequences of deeper systemic gaps — rather than addressing root causes.
This year’s conference explores how communities can prevent #crime before it occurs—by integrating social supports, environmental design, and multi-agency collaboration.
📢 Members can now register for the ACJRD 29th Annual Conference: “Prevention First — Designing Safer Communities from Systems to Streets.”
📆 Thursday, June 11th 2026
📍 Ashling Hotel, Dublin 8
🕘 9:00am – 5:00pm
Get your ticket today ➡️ www.acjrd.ie/news/284-reg...
New Year - New Career! Only 10 more days to apply for this exciting new role in ACJRD, a network of individuals and organisations committed to an evidence-informed criminal justice system. 🗓️ Application Deadline - Friday, 16 January 2026
More information here: www.acjrd.ie/news/272-we-...
📢 Our latest ACJRD Newsletter is now live.
Catch up on ACJRD news, events, and updates here: www.acjrd.ie/images/Newsl...
We Are Hiring!
ACJRD is seeking a dynamic Events & Communications Officer to help drive our mission to support collaboration, learning, and evidence-informed policy and practice across the Irish criminal justice system.
🗓️Deadline - Friday, 16 January 2026
More information: bit.ly/4pRMZrP
📢 Now Published: ACJRD 28th Annual Conference Report
The June 2025 event — “Opportunities and Challenges of Technological Innovation in the Criminal Justice System” — explored how technology and AI are transforming justice in Ireland.
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/4nSL3xN
ACJRD is thrilled to invite third-level students to our upcoming webinar: Meet the Pros: Criminal Justice Career Paths You Haven’t Heard in Class on 13 of November 2025 from 4:30-5:30 pm (online).
For more details and to register, visit: lnkd.in/eE-RfNVA
Pictured below (l-r): Mary Griffin, Chairperson, ACJRD, Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General, Dept. of Children, Disability & Equality, Koulla Yiasouma, Chairperson, Oberstown Children Detention Campus.
On October 10th, 2025, we hosted the 11th Irish Criminal Justice Agencies Conference at IMMA, Dublin, with the theme "Youth Justice in Motion: Prevention, Intervention, Contribution"," sparking key discussions on supporting young people in the justice system. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
👏 The CJA is proud to support the Right to be Heard Campaign.
@whymeuk.bsky.social are partnering with the Common Ground Justice Project to campaign for a legal right for victims to explore Restorative Justice.
📝 Find out more & sign the petition: www.commongroundjustice.uk/righttobeheard
📣 Read CJA Trustee Dr Thomas McNeil's latest working paper, written for @crimeandjustice.bsky.social
The paper reflects on the key challenges to organisational change and cultural reform in policing, analysing community rehabilitation initiatives.
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-we...
The Chief State Solicitor’s Office (CSSO) is conducting an open competition for the position of State Solicitor (Fixed Term) in the CSSO.
Training providers will soon begin to collect data about the diversity of student barristers and trainee solicitors in Ireland, according to a new report.
Panel of tables and chairs set up with microphones with PCSA purple branding and Irish flag in the background
Meeting agenda listed
We are here at the Castleknock Hotel in Dublin for a meeting in public between the Policing and Community Safety Authority and the new Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly.
The meeting will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel from 2:30pm 👉 youtube.com/live/B7PgyDd...
Statistics. Prosecutions at courts and cases processing time for domesic abuse related cases dealt with in 2024-25.
Prosecutions at courts and case processing time for domestic abuse related cases dealt with in 2024-25 have been published by @justice-ni.bsky.social
Read more: justice-ni.gov.uk/news/prosecu...
Yesterday, IPRT hosted a well-attended panel discussion, chaired by
@saoirse_b
on the report of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on its official visit to Ireland. Some key takeaways from the discussion 👇
#CPTIreland2025 #CPT2025
Graphic with microphone and words saying Probation Matters Podcast "Taking a Trauma Informed Approach in Probation" - listen on Spotify.
Listen to first of a number of #podcasts about taking a trauma informed approach.
Head of Comms Gail McGreevey is joined by PBNI's Trauma Informed Coordinator Kirsten McFarland & SBNI Trauma Practice Manager Marian Molloy to talk about it.
📻Listen on open.spotify.com/episode/2UOG...
🎉 #EuropeanDayOfLanguages 🎙️
Conference interpreters are the bridge between cultures, ensuring that language is no barrier to decision-making in the #EU. Learn how they keep Europe connected and represented 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmLx...
Solicitors have urged the Law Society of Northern Ireland to intervene against plans to lower the standard of proof applied by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for Northern Ireland.
🎉 #EuropeanDayOfLanguages 🌍
Multilingualism is a key element of how the #ECJ works. Thanks to interpreters and lawyer-linguists, the Court can function efficiently in all 24 official languages of the EU👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvX...
Wednesday 1 October - 4pm
Book Launch - Neoliberalism, State-Corporate Power and Regulatory Failure
All welcome
Wonderful to see Maynooth University so well represented on this list especially The School of Law and Criminology's @edwardsdove.bsky.social
Watch: On National Police Memorial Day @justice-ni.bsky.social Minister Naomi Long reflects on the sacrifices police officers have made to keep our communities safe. #NPMD
📢 Call for Papers 📢
Criminology & Criminal Justice is now inviting submissions!
We’re looking for original research that pushes boundaries, challenges assumptions, and contributes to key debates in criminology and criminal justice.
🖊️ Submit your work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice:
“‘It’s not going to be tech that gets us out of it’: Modern slavery and digitisation in fashion supply networks”
By Jon Davies, Rose Broad, Michelle Corallo & colleagues
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice:
“The situational character of prison violence: An exploratory qualitative study”
By Dante B.C. Hoek, Ard J. Barends, Maarten J.J. Kunst & colleagues
📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
#Criminology
More challenge, more reward.
Those considering a career in An Garda Síochána are encouraged to examine all the role offers, from remuneration and associated benefits, to the incredible variety that comes with the role.
Apply today. Closing date is 9 October ➡️ bit.ly/46tk7iJ
#ItsAJobWorthDoing
Brilliant to have our friends from @ocoireland.bsky.social in Belfast 🙌
Top of our agenda was our shared goal of incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law. This is the single-most important thing we can do for children and young people 💙🩷🧡💚❤️
