Full Description
Co-production in Youth Justice offers both theoretical contributions and empirical evidence to shed light on the extent and nature of participatory and engaging practices within the field of youth justice.
Examining co-production initiatives from different youth justice systems, this book demonstrates how co-production connects with lived experience, trauma-informed practice, creative research methods, and child friendly practices. It illustrates new ways of viewing and working with children and young people in conflict with the law, including the extent to which they can influence youth justice systems. It also offers new insight into under researched areas, such as creative co-production with Black and Mixed heritage children, and child friendly forms of co-production within the context of Violence Reduction Partnerships.
Co-production in Youth Justice is an important new resource for students and scholars within criminology and criminal justice, as well as professionals working within youth justice services, relevant charities, and inspectorates.
Contents
1.Introducing co-production in youth justice. Part 1: Theory and principles: contextualising the unique challenges of co-production in youth justice. 2.Unravelling the conceptual ambiguity of co-production for transformation. 3.Co-production in youth justice: power-sharing, procedural justice, and reflexive critical pragmatism. 4.Challenges in capturing the authentic voice of the 'unchildlike child'. 5.Co-production and harm reduction: Collaborating with children assessed as 'high risk'. 6.Collaboration with children: Mind the exploitation trap!. Part 2: Values and policy implications: co-production approaches and evidence-informed policymaking. 7.Children's Right to Participate in Youth Justice Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Irish Youth Justice. 8.Co-producing a Child First Policy Framework for the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership. 9.Opportunities for progressing trauma-informed youth justice case management through co-production principles. 10.Using creative arts approaches for co-production in youth justice. 11.Black Space Making - Co-Creating Hope for Black and Mixed heritage boys in and outside the Criminal Justice System. 12.Interdisciplinary methodological innovations for enhancing co-production with professionals and children in secure settings. Part 3: Lived experiences of practice: Children and young people's voices within narratives of co-production. 13.Youth Justice Lived Experience as carceral capital in the co-production of peer support programmes in prisons. 14."I would want to see young people working in here, that's what I want to see..." How peer support opportunities in youth justice services can support a Child First, trauma-informed, and reparative model of practice for Youth Justice'. 15.Drawing on lived experience in a Youth Justice context. 16."You learn to rebel by being locked up": Young People's Experience of Restriction, Control and Agency in the Children and Young People Secure Estate. 17.Co-production as social justice: a reflection on creative consultations with young adults and young people. 18.Conclusion: co-production as the vehicle? The journey to transform justice with children and young people.
