Using the Kenny Report To End Land Hoarding
If costs are affecting the property market and the delivery of social housing, while in the middle of a housing...
Recent Research
The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice produces original research in each of our focus areas: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, The Housing Crisis, Penal Policy and Theological Reflection. The goal of JCFJ research initiatives is to inform public opinion and affect public policy so as to promote justice for all in Irish society. Our research outputs range from reports, to policy briefings, through to academic monographs.
Faith in the North-East Inner-City
Introduction New research by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and ACET Ireland has identified almost fifty faith-based communities...
Election Manifesto 2024
As Ireland prepares for a General Election, we face a series of wicked challenges. Rising inequality; the housing and homelessness...
Citizens’ Juries and Spatial Planning – A Formula for Change?
The paper “Citizens’ Juries and Spatial Planning” by Edmond Grace SJ explores the potential for citizens’ juries to play a...
International Prison Workshop 2024
On 12th January 2024, the Centre organised a closed workshop to create space for discussion of current issues within the...
IPW 2024 – Video Recordings
Shona Minson – The Disruption of Women’s Imprisonment: Prison Sentences, Negative Consequences and Non-Carceral Alternatives Anna Schliehe – Female Imprisonment...
Housing Crisis Proposals: Tenant State of Mind & Cost Rental Public Housing
Tenant State of Mind How Cost Rental Public Housing can Reverse the State’s Transformation to a Tenant How are we...
Towards a Green New Deal
A Global Jesuit Vision As an initiative of the Irish Jesuit Province, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is...
The Property Crash
The Irish Housing System: Vision, Values, Reality The Irish Housing System: Vision, Values, Reality, a policy paper from the Jesuit...
The Prison Book
Reimagining Imprisonment in Europe: Effects, Failures and the Future Countries throughout Europe are sending more and more of their citizens...
The Prison Documents
Imprisonment is the most severe penalty available to the courts in Ireland, as it is in most other developed countries....
The Irish Prison System
Vision, Values, Reality Imprisonment is the most severe penalty available to the courts in Ireland, as it is in most...
Making Progress
With the election of the Fine Gael – Labour Government in 2011, a commitment was made to reduce the prison...
Developing Inside: Transforming Prison for Young Adults
The Centre has called on the Government to end ‘severe confinement’ for young adults in prison. Out of fear for...
Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
Ireland’s recent history has been dominated by economic questions… As the subtitle of one famous book asks, “Why was Ireland...
Book Details – Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
Published by the Cascade imprint in Wipf and Stock’s Theopolitical Visions series. Wipf and Stock, the publisher, will gladly sell...
Discussion Guide – Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age is a work of academic moral theology. It is written, however, with a view...
About the Author – Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
“Social theologian” is a pretty great job title Kevin Hargaden is the Social Theologian with the Jesuit Centre for Faith...