Global Community Corrections Initiative Director James Byrne recently spoke at the 2025 Correctional Research Symposium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A link to his presentation — The Size, Scope, and Effectiveness of Community Corrections: A Global  Review of Research can be found here.

In addition, For those interested in this topic, a much more detailed presentation on global community corrections by Dr. Byrne is linked here. This presentation at Dr. April Pattavina’s  March 2025 doctoral seminar on Corrections at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, summarizes Chapter 25 ( authored by Dr. Byrne and colleagues Don Hummer and Sabrina Rapisarda), in The Routledge Handbook of Global Community Corrections. For a pre publication copy of this chapter, please contact Dr. Byrne at profbyrne7@gmail.com