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

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I will use an extreme example, although Dr. Lambert might think this is unfair. Let us consider the example of gangland violence where somebody uses violence against another person in a different gang. I would have thought that the reason for that is that the person perpetrating the violence adopts a rational decision that their problems can be resolved by inflicting violence on this other person and it is not really that they are under stress.