Marder, Ian D. and Murphy, Angelena and Rooney, Paraic and Brennan, Fionnuala and Hogan, Clare (2024) Training new prison officers in restorative practices: The Irish experience. Prison Service Journal, 273. 9 -16. ISSN 0300-3558

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Abstract

Restorative practices are a set of values and skills that professionals can use during their day-to-day interactions with the people for whom they deliver services.2 They can be applied across the ‘human services’,3 including in criminal justice agencies such as policing and prisons, social work, schools and universities, among other settings. Professionals working in these services have significant discretion to decide how to allocate benefits and sanctions on behalf of the State, and how they interact with the people over whom they have authority, and for whose welfare they are responsible.4 Advocates argue that restorative values and skills can help professionals orient their practices towards building and maintaining positive relationships, ensuring people feel treated fairly and involved in decisions, and addressing and repairing harm and resolving conflict constructively.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Training; new prison officers; restorative practices; Irish experience;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Law
Item ID:	18926
Depositing User:	Ian Marder
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2024 15:29
Journal or Publication Title:	Prison Service Journal
Publisher:	Crown Copyright
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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