This week I read a superb book called No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, by Rachel Louise Snyder. The book is divided into three sections.

MORE than 14,000 people accused of a crime have been cautioned rather than prosecuted under a novel Garda scheme.

UP to 7,000 criminal cases could be diverted from the courts to restorative justice programmes each year, saving the State up to €8m in prison costs.

RADICAL plans for criminals to meet their victims before being released from jail were welcomed last night by prison reform supporters.