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By Ursula Fernée and Lisa Maginnis
Welcome to the nineteenth edition of Irish Probation Journal (IPJ). One of the real strengths of probation across Europe and beyond is its willingness to seek out and support academic and practitioner-based research, which informs effective practice to achieve out shared goals of safer communities and fewer victims. Over the past 19 years, the journal has become well established as a recognised forum for the sharing of criminal justice research, evaluation, analysis and discussion on probation and community sanctions. We are confident that the board range of contributions in this year's edition will further contribute to this knowledge base.