Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Penal Reform: Discussion with User Voice

2:20 pm

Photo of Katherine ZapponeKatherine Zappone (Independent)
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The peer mentoring that is essential is clearly based on the assumption of the goodness and the capacity of the offenders, which in itself is counter-cultural and probably part of the power of what Mr. Johnson is doing. The handout we received referred to the social return on investment ratio. What would be the components of creating value from the investment?