Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Examination of the Drivers of Violence and Criminality: Discussion

4:00 pm

Dr. Sharon Lambert:

I know from working in services where boys were fighting that, when boys fight, parents and-or others will say "boys will be boys", instead of trying to talk to them about the fact they should not be fighting.

That is socialisation and there is a huge amount of research on that from social psychology.

On the age of the Garda diversion projects, we know that the human brain is not fully formed until somewhere between the 25th and 27th year. If one looks at anything, suicide, for example-----