Safer Communities: Volume 22 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Sean Creaney, Samantha Burns, Anne-Marie Day

Experiential peers cultivate a participation culture in youth justice

Andi Brierley

The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to explore the concept of experiential peer support, which involves individuals who have lived experiences of using care and justice…

County Lines and the power of the badge: the LFC Foundation’s approach to youth intervention

Francis Hargreaves, Paula Carroll, Grace Robinson, Sean Creaney, Andrew O’Connor

This paper aims to explore the purpose and outline the key features of Liverpool Football Club Foundation’s County Lines (CL) programme and how principles of collaboration and…

Co-producing trauma-informed youth justice in Australia?

Andrew Day, Catia Malvaso, Luke Butcher, Joanne O'Connor, Katherine McLachlan

Recent years have seen significant policy and practice interest in how to best respond to the impact of childhood maltreatment and adversity on young people’s contact with youth…

Exploring the impact of music on children at risk of contact with the criminal justice system

Laura Caulfield, Bozena Sojka

Previous research has demonstrated the positive impact of participation in a music programme run by a Youth Offending Team in England (Caulfield et al., 2020). While the previous…

Exploring partnerships with justice-involved children in Hong Kong: the role of social workers and barriers towards transformation

Samantha Burns

This study aims to explore adult professional’s role using the conceptual framework of co-production. It proposes that when adult professionals recognise children’s expertise…