The Irish Probation Journal is a joint initiative of the Probation Service (formerly the Probation and Welfare Service) and Probation Board. Each article submitted will be considered by an Editorial Committee composed of Probation Service and Probation Board staff. The Editorial Committee is coordinated by two co-editors, representing the Probation Service and Probation Board.
The latest Irish Probation Journal, Volume 21 can be downloaded below. Individual articles are also available to download using the links provided. Previous volumes can also be downloaded below.
Irish Probation Journal – Volume 22, 2025
Irish Probation Journal Volume 22 Full Journal
Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender Matters - MAGGIE O’NEILL
Strategy to Tackle Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based
Violence in Ireland - STEPHANIE O’KEEFFE
Doing What Matters Most: How Probation Can Contribute to Reducing Reoffending - GILLIAN MONTGOMERY
Irish Probation Journal – Volume 21, 2024
- Irish Probation Journal Volume 21 Full Journal
- Editorial
- Foreword
- Probation, Rehabilitation and Reparation FERGUS McNEILL - Selected by Margaret Griffin
- The Public Protection Advisory Group: A Model for Structured
Co-operation MICHAEL DONNELLAN and BRIAN McCAUGHEY - Selected by Gillian Montgomery - Reintegration of Prisoners in Ireland: New Research Findings AGNIESZKA MARTYNOWICZ and MARTIN QUIGLEY - Selected by Tim Coughlan
- A Smarter Approach? Sentencing and Politics in England and Wales PHIL BOWEN - Selected by Kate Walshe
- Effective Practice in Probation Supervision ANNA CONNOLLY - Selected by Olivia Keaveney
- ‘Not in My Back Yard’: The Challenge of Meeting the Housing Needs
of Offenders PAUL THOMPSON - Selected by Liz Arthur - Desistance as a Social Movement SHADD MARUNA - Selected by Peter Beck
- Trauma-Informed Practice and the Criminal Justice System:
A Systematic Narrative Review ANNIE McANALLEN and EMMA McGINNIS - Selected by Collette Lattimore - Perceptions of Restorative Justice in Ireland: The Challenges of
the Way Forward SHANE McCARTHY - Selected by Stephen Hamilton - Book Review: Probation and Parole in Ireland: Law and Practice
by Vivian Geiran and Shane McCarthy - Reviewed by Tara Kane - Embedding a Culture of Interdisciplinary Open Research in
Criminal Justice: A New Partnership for Ireland IAN MARDER et al. - Book Review
Irish Probation Journal – Volume 20, 2023
- Irish Probation Journal Volume 20 Full Journal
- Irish Probation Journal Volume 20 editorial
- IPJ 20 - Translating Lived Criminal Justice Experience into Policy Innovation: Countering the Stigma of a Criminal Record Through a Strengths-Based Disclosure Model
- IPJ 20 - Working with Homeless People on Probation Supervision – A Practitioner’s Perspective on Collaboration and Co-operation in the Community
- IPJ 20 - Twenty Years A-Growing: Reflections on Two Decades of the Irish Probation Journal
- IPJ 20 - Resettlement Needs for Foreign National Prisoners Returning to Their Home Country
- IPJ 20 - A Critical Reflection on Being a Lived Experience Researcher
- IPJ 20 - ‘The Children Are Victims, They Are Not in Any Way an Extension of the Crime’: Caregiver Perceptions About the Experiences of Children Whose Father Downloaded Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
- IPJ 20 - Emancipatory Pedagogy in Prison: Participatory Action Research and Prison/University Partnerships
- IPJ 20 - The Promising Synergy Between Social Enterprise, Risk–Need–Responsivity and the Desistance Paradigm
- IPJ 20 - Is Denial an Obstacle to Effective Interventions with Perpetrators of Sexual Offences?
- IPJ Vol 20 - Images of Youth Deviance in the Irish Republic The Case of the Bugsy Malones
- IPJ Vol 20 - Judicial Discretion and the Justice and Welfare Dichotomy
- IPJ 20 - Book Reviews
Irish Probation Journal – Volume 19, 2022
- IPJ Journal Volume 19 Contents
- IPJ Journal Volume 19 Editorial
- Balancing the Need for Due Process, Fair Trials and Systemic Efficacy: The Benefits and Challenges of Technological Improvements and Greater Efficiencies for the Criminal Justice System - Bruno Min.
- Forty Years of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland - Pat best, Nicola Carr, Gail McGreevy and Val Owens.
- ‘Helping, Hurting, Holding and Hands Off’: Preliminary Findings from an Oral History of Probation Client Experiences of Supervision in Ireland - Louise Kennefick, Deirdre Healy and Niamh Wade.
- Probation in Slovenia: ‘In the Right Direction’ - Danijela Mrhar Prelic
- Restorative Practices in Schools in Northern Ireland: Towards an ‘All School’ Model - Brian Payne, Graeme Young and Jonathan Hobson.
- An Exploration of the Relationship Between Probation Supervision and Desistance: A Systematic Narrative Review - Peter Beck and Emma McGinnis.
- An Exploration of the Profile and Characteristics of Human Trafficking in Northern Ireland - Emma Richmond, Twylla Cunningham and Campbell Killick.
- Car Crime: A Young Man’s Game - Ashling Golden.
- Custodial Transitions: Are We Meeting the Needs of Young Adults in the Criminal Justice System? - Alison Coyne.
- Addressing Unadjudicated Domestic Abuse: An Evaluation of the Promoting Positive Relationships Programme - Kirsten McFarland
- A Practitioner’s Response to ‘Probation and Mental Health: Do We Really Need Equivalence?’ - Laura Cotter and Kim McDonnell.
- Practitioner Reflection on the Challenges and Opportunities for Collaborative Working in the Probation Board for Northern Ireland - Karen Sinnamon.
- Book Reviews.
Irish Probation Journal – Volume 18, 2021
- IPJ Journal Volume 18 Contents
- IPJ Journal Volume 18 Editorial
- Probation and Mental Health: Do We Really Need Equivalence? - Charlie Brooker
- Mapping 50 years of NIACRO – Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders - Brendan Fulton, Olwen Lyner, Shadd Maruna and Gillian McNaull
- Electronic Monitoring in Ireland: Disruptive Innovation, Affordance, or a Technology in Search of a Rationale? - Vivian Geiran
- A Smarter Approach? Sentencing and Politics in England and Wales - Phil Bowen
- ‘We Cannot Do This Alone’ – A Co-designed, Multi-departmental Strategy to Increase the Employment Prospects of People with Criminal Records - Siobhán Cafferty
- Trauma-Informed Practice and the Criminal Justice System: A Systematic Narrative Review - Annie McAnallen and Emma McGinnis
- A Practitioner’s Response to ‘Tackling Substance Misuse from a Problem-Solving Justice Approach’ - Claire McNamara
- Substance Misuse and Supervision: An Examination of Drug and Alcohol Misuse Among Probation Service Clients - Louise Rooney
- Probation in Latvia: ‘For a Safer Society’ - Sintija Stivrina and Diana Ziedina
- Violent Female Offenders: An Exploration of Adversity, Trauma, and Offending Behaviour in a Sample of Females Supervised by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland - Hannadi Al Hassan
- Building Bridges to Successful Reintegration - Aisling Meyler
- Restorative Justice with Adults who Have Offended - Aideen McLaughlin
- ‘Money Mules’: Exploited Victims or Collaborators in Organised Crime? - Rob Pickles
- J-ARC: An Interagency Initiative to Reduce Prolific Offending - Mandrea Bourke
Irish Probation Journal – Volume 17, 2020
- IPJ Journal 17 Contents
- IPJ Journal 17 Editorial
- Interactions with the Traveller Community by Prison and Probation Staff - Denis C. Bracken
- The Potential Role of Recovery Capital in Stopping Sexual Offending: Lessons from Circles of Support and Accountability to Enrich Practice - Kieran McCartan and Hazel Kemshall
- ‘Why Would You Choose to Study Sex Offenders?: Assisted Desistance and Reintegration of Perpetrators of Sexual Harm - Clare Cresswell
- The Management of People Serving Life Sentences in Ireland: A Multidisciplinary Model - Anna Flynn and Marita Costigan
- ‘There are Fourteen Grey Areas’: ‘Jailing’, Professionalism and Legitimacy in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures - Joe Garrihy
- COVID-19 Pandemic: Practitioner Reflections on Probation Practice - Sheena Norton
- Partnership Working Towards More Effective Resettlement - Mark Nicholson and Stevie Mann
- Tackling Substance Misuse from a Problem- Solving Justice Approach - Dr Geraldine O’Hare and Peter Luney
- Reducing Reoffending: Choices and Challenges - Ian O’Donnell
- Developing an Irish Offender Supervision Framework: A Whole System Approach - Ioan Durnescu, Margaret Griffin and John Scott
- Reflections on a Pandemic: How COVID-19 Impacted upon Probation Practice in Northern Ireland - Jean O’Neill and Gail McGreevy
- Engaging with Mental Health Challenges in Probation Practice - Christina Power
- Promising Directions for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: The Case of Northern Ireland - Aine Travers and Tracey McDonagh
- ‘Helping Others and Helping Myself’: Wounded Healers as Peer Workers - Marguerite Woods
- Journal Book Reviews
Irish Probation Journal - Volume 16, 2019
- IPJ Journal 16 Contents
- IPJ Journal 16 Editorial
- Criminal Justice Culture(s) in Ireland: Quo Vadis? – Claire Hamilton
- ‘More than Just a Number’: Meeting the Needs of Those with Mental Illness, Learning Difficulties and Speech and Language Difficulties in the Criminal Justice System – Stan Houston and Michelle Butler
- James P. Organ, the ‘Irish System’ and the Origins of Parole – Gerry McNally
- Restorative Justice as the New Default in Irish Criminal Justice – Ian D Marder
- Delivering Victim Services: An Overview of Practice in the Probation Board for Northern Ireland – Gillian Montgomery
- A Practitioner’s Response to ‘Resilience in the Face of Trauma: Implications for Service Delivery’ – Deirdre Grant
- Testing Artificial Intelligence in the United States Probation and Pretrial Services System- Matthew G Rowland, Nancy Beatty-Gregoire and John J Fitzgerald
- Aspire – ‘Changing Lives to Make Communities Safer’ – Joan Ritchie and Gail McGreevy
- ‘Prison is the Worst Place a Traveller Could Be’: The Experiences of Irish Travellers in Prison in England and Wales – Paul Gaviin
- Reducing Youth Crime: The Role of Mentoring – Kieran O'Dwyer
- Human Trafficking and Its Interface with the Irish Criminal Justice System: Shared Learning – Ann Marie Keane
- Safer Injecting Facilities: Will they Work in an Irish Context? – Caroline Bates
- Book Reviews
Irish Probation Journal - Volume 15, 2018
- IPJ Journal 15 Contents
- IPJ Journal 15 Editorial
- A More Humane Approach to Addressing the Harm of Criminal Behaviour Starts with Victims – Tim Chapman
- Unmasking the ‘Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector’ in the Republic of Ireland: Towards a Research Agenda – Katharina Swirak
- Non-compliance and Breach Processes in Ireland: A Pilot Study – Niamh Maguire
- From the High, Hard Ground of Theory to the Swampy Lowlands of Risk Assessment in Practice: The Real-Life Challenges of Decision-Making – Annie McAnallen
- ADHD and the Irish Criminal Justice System: The Question of Inertia – Etain Quigley and Blanaid Gavin
- A Practitioner’s Response to ‘Understanding Radicalisation: Implications for Criminal Justice Practitioners’ – Darren Broomfield
- Probation in Japan: Engaging the Community – Saki Kato
- Service Design in Criminal Justice: A Co-production to Reduce Reoffending – Nicholas De Leon, Brigit Mager and Judah Armani
- Problem-Solving Justice and Problem-Solving Courts: What Northern Ireland Can Learn from the US Experience of Mental Health Courts – Dr Geraldine O'Hare
- Resilience in the Face of Trauma: Implications for Service Delivery – Aoife Dermody, Caroline Gardner, Sharon David, Sharon Lambert, John Dermody and Marisa Fein
- Measuring Attitudinal Change: An Action Research Project – David Williamson, Stephen Roe, Darren Ferguson and Naimh Dooley
- Book Reviews
Irish Probation Journal - Previous volumes
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 14, 2017
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 13, 2016
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 12, 2015
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 11, 2014
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 10, 2013
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 9, 2012
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 8, 2011
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 7, 2010
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 6, 2009
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 5, 2008
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 4, 2007
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 3, 2006
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 2, 2005
- Irish Probation Journal – Volume 1, 2004