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Save the Date: 2 May 2024

ACJRD are delighted to announce that booking is now open for the 17th Annual Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture, with Prof. Maggie O’Neill, Professor in Sociology & Criminology, University College Cork, speaking on 'Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender Matters' on the evening of Thursday, 2nd May 2024 in the Criminal Courts of Justice. 

Save the Date: Wednesday, 12th June 2024

Save the Date: ACJRD are delighted to announce that the 27th Annual Conference on the theme of 'Continuing the Conversation – The Future of Drug Policy in Ireland' will take place on Wednesday, 12th June 2024 (full day) in the Camden Court Hotel. 

Latest Updates

ACJRD Juvenile Justice seminar - recording available for ACJRD Members, and presentations available for download.

SCARS Art Exhibition, 25 April 2024.

Policing Empires: Militarization, Race and the Imperial Boomerang, Maynooth University, 25 April 2024.

Alternative Ways of Seeing – An exhibition of work by people in custody 2024, until 27 April 2024.

Public Understandings of Hate Crime: Ireland, North and South, University of Limerick, 30 April 2024.

The Politics and Practice of Drug Policing in Ireland, Northern Research Police Webinar Series, 3 May 2024

Police Reform in a Changing Ireland, Maynooth University, 16 May 2024.

Longest serving probation officer: 'Nail 'em, jail 'em policies will not solve repeat offending', The Journal interview with Gerry McNally

Listen: Rachel Lillis and Oliver Callan speak about the Probation Service and Restorative Justice

Replacing the Offences Against the State Acts: Shaking the Security Mindset

An Evaluation of the Provision of Psychiatric Care within the Irish Prison System

The reasons why applicants are still required to disclose criminal records are not always clear...

Adolescent Addiction Service Report 2024

Latest Updates

Maynooth University: MA in Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice

DCU: Policing, Crime and Security. 

University of Limerick: Human Rights in Criminal Justice, Applied Policing and Criminal Justice.

Call for Articles: The Irish Criminal Law Journal

ACJRD Newsletter

ACJRD's latest newsletter is now available - with information on ACJRD's events calendar of conferences and seminars, ACJRD members' upcoming events and recent publications, along with other news...

Membership of ACJRD for 2024 is now due for renewal, so we will shortly be in contact with our members.

Benefit from reduced prices and priority access to Conference, Seminars and Networking events... 

Since our move to a new mailing list provider, Mailjet, took place on 1st January 2024 we have removed anyone from the ACJRD mailing list who has not opted-in.

Why do I have to opt-in again? ACJRD have moved to a new mailing list provider, Mailjet, and to comply with GDPR all those who wish to remain on the mailing list need to opt-in again in order to receive future emails and notifications of events. 

Christmas Networking - Hugh Dockry Seminar

ACJRD's Christmas networking event and seminar, "Heading towards a federal criminal justice system? Past, present and future of EU Justice", took place in the Law Society of Ireland on Monday, 11 December, 2023. 

ACJRD Annual Conference

The 9th Irish Criminal Justice Agencies Conference, Penal Policy Reform: Putting Community at the Heart of the Criminal Justice System, took place on Tuesday, 10th October 2023.

Dr John O’Connor, Judge of the Circuit Court, "Judicial Discretion and the Justice and Welfare Dichotomy: The Sentencing of Children in the Irish Youth Justice System" - Thursday, 20th April 2023, 6pm (registration 5.30pm)

The ACJRD 25th Annual Conference took place on Friday, 7th October 2022.

"Race, Migration and the Criminal Justice System"  -  Wednesday, 22nd June, 2022

A collaboration between ACJRD and the UCD Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Bruno Min, Legal Director (UK & International), Fair Trials, presented the 15th Annual Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture online.

The seminar, "Effecting Change: Learning from the experience of Oberstown" took place on Thursday, 3rd March, 2022.

The UKICJC Network held a webinar on "Extradition post Brexit - Implementation of Part Three, Title VII of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA):  Perspectives from the UK and Ireland” on 10th January, 2022.

The ACJRD Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Working Groups, in collaboration with the Policing Authority, held this online seminar on Wednesday, 1st December, 2021.

The ACJRD Restorative Justice Working Group presented this online seminar on Thursday, 18th November, 2021.

The ACJRD 24th Annual Conference “Criminal Justice and Public Health: Policy and Practice Post-Pandemic” took place online on Friday, 8th October, 2021.

The ACJRD White Collar Crime Working Group hosted a seminar on “A Review on Economic Crime and Corruption”  on Thursday, 15th July, 2021.