Unmasking the 'criminal justice voluntary sector' in the Republic of Ireland: towards a research agenda

dc.contributor.authorSwirak, Katharina
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-07T10:28:37Z
dc.date.available2019-01-07T10:28:37Z
dc.date.issued2018-10
dc.date.updated2018-12-10T19:53:13Z
dc.description.abstractVoluntary sector organisations (VSOs) play a pivotal, but as yet unevaluated role in the Irish criminal justice system. The aim of this paper is to address some of the key issues and debates discussed in the extensive international literature on the criminal justice voluntary sector and to consider how they might be translated into an Irish context. After presenting the contours of the Irish criminal justice voluntary sector and discussing the difficulties of scoping a complex and diverse field, the paper highlights key strengths and weaknesses discussed in the international literature. The Irish criminal justice voluntary sector ultimately has to be interpreted as an element of broader Irish penal and social policy. Making it visible as a distinct field of intervention and research is important if we want to highlight some of the sectorâ s undeniable strengths. However, it is also timely to critically interrogate some of its tensions and contradictions in a way that will ultimately be useful to service users, practitioners and policy-makers alike.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSwirak, K. (2018) 'Unmasking the 'criminal justice voluntary sector' in the Republic of Ireland: towards a research agenda', Irish Probation Journal, 15 (October 2018), pp. 24-46. Available at: http://www.probation.ie/EN/PB/0/B686D6FF3A4009AE8025834E0048EEDC/$File/IPJ%20Vol%2015%20for%20web.pdf#page=26 (Accessed 7 January, 2019)en
dc.identifier.endpage46en
dc.identifier.issn1649-6396
dc.identifier.issuedOctober 2018en
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Probation Journalen
dc.identifier.startpage24en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7257
dc.identifier.volume15en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherProbation Service, Ireland / Probation Board for Northern Irelanden
dc.relation.urihttp://www.probation.ie/EN/PB/0/B686D6FF3A4009AE8025834E0048EEDC/$File/IPJ%20Vol%2015%20for%20web.pdf#page=26
dc.rights© 2018, the Author. Published as a joint initiative by the Probation Service, Ireland and the Probation Board for Northern Ireland. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectVoluntary sector organisationsen
dc.subjectThird sectoren
dc.subjectState-civil societyen
dc.subjectPartnershipsen
dc.subjectDesistanceen
dc.subjectService user involvementen
dc.subjectSocial controlen
dc.subjectMarketisationen
dc.titleUnmasking the 'criminal justice voluntary sector' in the Republic of Ireland: towards a research agendaen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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