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- PublicationThe AIM Restorative Practice and Harmful Sexual Behaviour Assessment Framework and Practice GuidanceThis book provides a depth of practice guidance, and an assessment framework, for restorative practice in situations involving harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) by children and adolescents
20 - PublicationDerek Scally, The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special RelationshipDerek Scally introduces us to Sr Deirdre Tymon on page two of his 336-page reflective journey. He is investigating the Irish people, the Catholic Church, the Irish State and the unrequited love for the Vatican. On the topic of this book, the politics of Church State dysfunction and the legacy of a rule-based morality devoid of empathy or emotional intelligence, Sr Deirdre puts it succinctly: “There’s a real anger” (p. 2). Even her former neighbours in Co Roscommon “who used to be very pious are now ‘giving out yards’ about the Church… the abuse, the cover ups, the state collusion, the apologies, the pain, the wasted lives, the broken families” (p. 2).
24 - PublicationSr. Imelda Wickham (2021). Unheard Voices: Reflections from a Prison Chaplain. Dublin: Messenger PublicationsVolumes have been written on the failure of prisons to achieve their rehabilitative functions (in the main), and volumes have shown how prisons make many incarcerated people worse. Recidivism figures provide ‘the evidence’ and much has been written about the dehumanizing experience of incarceration. Research shows how young people become trapped in gangs they meet ‘inside’ and a viewing of the brilliant, but chilling, Irish film ‘Michael Inside’ will inform the uninitiated in how this all works. In essence, despite the efforts of many kind and brilliant individuals in ‘the system’ ‘the system’ is failing many of our citizens and we cannot say we do not know. We have enough Irish and international ‘evidence’ to last us a lifetime. Sr Imelda’s book adds to the chilling narrative.
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