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Professor Seán Redmond

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University of Limerick

  1. Recognise the critical importance of practice to youth justice policy
  2. Prioritise making the professional and young person relationship as good as it can be
  3. Think about scientific partnerships between government and research
“If we accept the centrality of the relationship [between the front line professional and the young person] and reverse engineer the governance system for youth justice, this means that every layer behind the relationship, up the management, regulatory and policy chain, should demonstrate how it is adding value to the special relationship. This is a significantly different take on accountability.”

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Dr Seán Redmond is Adjunct Professor of Youth Justice within the School of Law at the University of Limerick (UL), seconded by the Department of Justice (DoJ). Seán is leading the REPPP (Research Evidence into Policy, Programmes and Practice) project, a joint DoJ/UL partnership to develop the evidence base to improve youth crime policy decision-making in Ireland. From 2012 to 2016, Seán worked in the Research and Evaluation Unit of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs with the lead responsibility for evaluation. He had lead responsibility for the value for money and policy review of targeted Youth Programmes with €34 million funding. Over the last 25 years Sean has held positions as the: Head of Young Offender Programmes, Irish Youth Justice Service; Assistant Director of Children’s Services, Barnardos; and Director of the PACE prisoners’ resettlement service.