Some key documents

Ireland: national report chapters - Drug markets and crime, Prison, Legal framework

(2025) DRIVE National awareness campaign 2025. Dublin: DRIVE (Drug Related Intimidation & Violence Engagement) 

(2025) An evidence-informed model and guide for effective relational working in youth justice. Manchester: HM Inspectorate of Probation.

(2024) Drug use and current alternatives to coercive sanctions in Ireland. Mapping the existing alternatives to coercive sanctions for people found in possession of controlled drugs for personal use. National Drugs Strategy. Strategic Implementation Group 5 (SIG-5) and summary

(2023) The Greentown project: building evidence to inform intervention design for juveniles caught-up in local criminal networks. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

(2022) Understanding and addressing anti-social behaviour: a rapid evidence review. Department of Justice

(2022) Measuring effectiveness in Ireland's youth justice system. Technical report 2022.  And

(2022) Measuring outcomes in youth justice programmes: a review of literature and practice evidence. Limerick: Research Evidence into Policy, Programmes and Practice (REPPP) Project, University of Limerick

(2021) Debts, threats, distress and hope: towards understanding drug-related intimidation in Dublin’s North East Inner City.  Ana Liffey Drug Project

(2020) Lifting the lid on Redtown: a replication case study, which investigates the contribution of engagement in a local criminal network to young people’s more serious and persistent offending patterns. University of Limerick 

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