August 2024 saw the publication of a series of small outputs from the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership. Funded by the National Open Research Forum from October 2023-December 2024, the CORD Partnership brings a broad group of policy, practice and research stakeholders together to co-create ways to embed a culture of interdisciplinary open research in criminal justice in Ireland.
In the first publication, Maynooth School of Law and Criminology colleagues Prof. Claire Hamilton, Dr. Ian Marder and Dr. Cian Ó Concubhair collaborated with Dr. Deirdre Healy from UCD and Margaret Tumelty and Sophia Carey from the Policing Authority to write a joint piece on procedural justice in policing. The first in what will hopefully be a series of joint articles between practitioners, policymakers, oversight professionals and researchers, the Policing Authority asked a series of questions about the international research on procedural justice in policing, to which academic researchers responded. They discuss procedural justice in the contexts of the use of police powers, policework with victims and within policing organisations, as well as how to measure and monitor procedural justice. The article was published by Irish Legal News and can be read here.
Second, Triona Kenny (Research Assistant in Open Criminology, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology) published a report on a CORD Partnership workshop. Published by the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute as part of its Working Paper Series, the report outlines the key findings and messages from an online workshop earlier in 2024 at which CORD partners heard speakers discuss translational criminology and the work of different research partnerships operating in the fields of policing, big data and child services. The report can be read here.
Finally, Patrice McCormack (Research Assistant in Open Criminology, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology) and Marder co-wrote a short report for the NORF website on a recent one-day event focused on evidence-for-policy. Hosted by the University of Galway, the event heard from high-level speakers across the Irish civil service and higher education sectors discussing their views on the role of evidence and data in policymaking. The report seeks to connect this discussion to the open research agenda, and can be found here.
For more information about the CORD Partnership, email Dr. Ian Marder on [email protected]. A summary of the most recent CORD workshop, hosted by the Department of Justice and focusing on co-creating an agenda for the partnership for the coming years, can be read here.