Resource List
See below for resources and weblinks associated with the module 'On the Margins'. For more information on the module, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sample: Lesson 1 of On the Margins, So we all start out equal? is available here
On the Margins information flier is available here
Resources:
- National Youth Council of Ireland:
One World Week ’13: Human Rights.
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:
Catholic Social Teaching: Scripture Guide.
- Combat Poverty Agency:
Ireland – A Level Playing Pitch? A Transition Unit Resource.
- Jesuit Province and Trocaire: In Words and Deeds (
Posters and
Resource).
- CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit:
Tackling Controversial Issues in the Citizenship Classroom: A Resource for Citizenship Education.
- International Labour Organization:
The International Labour Organization and Social Justice.
- CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit:
Changing Perpectives: Cultural Values, Diversity and Equality in Ireland and the Wider World.
- Social Justice Ireland
- SVP Social Justice
- VPSJ Justice Matters
- Amnesty International
Links:
Link 1.1: 'What is Social Justice?'
Link 1.2: 'Social Injustice'
Link 1.3: 'Human Rights'
Link 1.4: 'Social Justice and Religion'
Link 1.5: Gerry O'Hanlon SJ
Link 1.6: 'Poverty and Inequality' - Page 1
Link 1.7: 'Poverty and Inequality' - Page 2
Link 1.8: Peter's Projection Map
Link 1.9: 'Ireland and Global Justice'
Link 1.10: 'Social Justice and Me'
Link 1.11: 'Poverty and Inequality' - Page 3
Link 1.12: History of Jesuits in Ireland
Link 1.13: 'People Working for Justice'
Strand 2: Understanding Crime
Resources:
- Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
- Central Statistics Office Statistics on Crime and Justice
- National Crime Council Statistics
- Why Me - Restorative Justice for Victims
Links:
Link 2.1: 'Understanding Crime'
Link 2.2: 'Understanding Crime' - Page 3
Link 2.3: 'Headline Crime'
Link 2.4: 'What are the Causes of Crime?'
Link 2.5: Youtube: London Riots 1
Link 2.6: Youtube: London Riots 2
Link 2.7: UK riots: the demographics of magistrate cases and convictions
Link 2.8: Youtube: Brixton on the Riots
Link 2.9: Rioter profile: 'The law was obeying us'
Link 2.10: Rioter profile: 'If I had a job I wouldn't have stolen'
Link 2.11: Rioter profile: 'I thought of it as like a battle, like a war'
Link 2.12: Rioter profile: 'I knew the black kids would be stopped before me'
Link 2.13: Rioter profile: 'I don't condone it, but it's helped me out financially'
Link 2.14: Rioter profile: 'She said: Go on, son, dash the brick at them'
Link 2.15: "Who goes to prison?" - Page 5
Link 2.16: Children in Care
Link 2.17: Health Service Executive
Link 2.18: Youth Homelessness
Link 2.19: Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Out of Hours Services
Link 2.20: Bail and Surety
Link 2.21: Probation Service
Link 2.22: ICPS Prison Population Rates per 100,000 of the national population
Link 2.23: International Centre for Prison Studies
Link 2.24: Gun homicides and gun ownership listed by country
Link 2.25: Top Murder Rates in the World
Link 2.26: UN Crime Statistics
Link 2.27: "What are the Causes"
Link 2.28: Caught on Camera: Britain’s Best Crime Photography
Strand 3: Understanding Prison
Resources:
- Irish Penal Reform Trust:
Picking up the Pieces: The Rights and Needs of Children and Families affected by imprisonment.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime:
Handbook of basic principles and promising practices on Alternatives to Imprisonment.
- Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
- Irish Penal Reform Trust
- International Prison Studies
- Central Statistics Office Statistics on Crime and Justice
- The Howard League
- The Irish Prison Service
- Children's Rights Alliance and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Links:
Link 3.1: Summary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Link 3.2: List of Community Sanctions from IYJS
Link 3.3: "Homelessness: Introduction"
Link 3.4: "Understanding Homelessness in Ireland"
Link 3.5: "Homeless in Ireland" in The Meaning is in the Shadows, Peter Mc Verry, 38-41.
Link 3.6: European Prison Rules
Link 3.7: Living in Prison: Description of a typical day in prison
Link 3.8: "Commitals to Prison"
Link 3.9: Invisible Children