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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. 

Latest Updates

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

A Century of Courts: conference, guided tours, exhibition and musical performance12 April 2024.

The Family Courts Bill Summit, Alex Hotel, Dublin 2, 17 April 2024.

The 6th World Congress on Probation and Parole, The Hague, 16-18 April 2024 (registration by 1 March 2024).

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

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

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

Revenue Dublin (Senior Legal Advisor, Assistant Principal), deadline 11 April 2024, 13.00.

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 Abstracts: The Stockholm Criminology Symposium

Call for Articles: The Irish Criminal Law Journal

ACJRD Newsletter

ACJRD are currently collating their April Newsletter. If you have relevant submissions, please send them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Thursday 28 March.

ACJRD's spring 2024 newsletter is 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.

The 7th Annual Irish Criminal Justice Agencies (ICJA) Conference Protecting the Human Rights of Vulnerable Suspects and Offenders:  Defining, Identifying and Responding to Vulnerabilities” took place on Friday, 4th June, 2021.