This country survey examines the core Irish criminal justice institutions; basic trends in crime
and punishment over the last 50 years; and critical junctures in the debate over law and …

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services
and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed …

Examining the Use of Community Service Orders as Alternatives to Short Prison Sentences in
Ireland Page 1 Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Articles Social Sciences …

In the past decade or so a significant body of work on 'Hibernian exceptionalism'to broader
punitive trends has emerged. The dominant argument and characterisation of Irish penality …

The manner in which criminal offences are investigated, prosecuted and tried varies greatly
from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The particular criminal process or criminal justice system …

The influence of economic crises on crime and penality is one of the fundamental issues in
economic analysis of the punitive field, and the topic has been explored from various …

This chapter discusses several key aspects of juvenile justice policy, briefly assessing to
what extent they live up to the principles of'child-friendly justice'. It attempts to situate these …

Constitutional human duties are simultaneously present and absent. Though many human
duties are set forth in many constitutions throughout the entire world, modern scholarship …

The impact of economic turmoil on crime and punishment should be examined in all its
complexity. Crime rates and incarceration rates are hardly correlated, and the latter are far …

In 1816, the report of what was probably the first major public inquiry into 'juvenile
delinquency'in any European country was published in London, England (Committee for …