Safer Communities: Volume 22 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Sean Creaney, Samantha Burns, Anne-Marie Day

Reflective participatory crime prevention education and solution finding through World Café and Forum Theatre with young people and young adults

Sarah Page

This paper aims to provide reflective practice insights on the use of the participatory approaches of World Café and Forum Theatre as crime prevention education and research tools…

“If I had had a me”: the benefits and challenges of involving children with lived experience in youth justice services

David Porteous, Anthony Goodman

This study aims to present the findings from an ongoing evaluation of a partnership project between a youth justice service and an independent charity that supports the…

Children and young peoples’ lyrics and voices capturing their experiences within youth justice services

Jayne Price, Dean Wilkinson, Charlene Crossley

This paper aims to explore young peoples’ authentic experiences of youth justice services (YJS) during the Covid-19 pandemic. By adopting the creative arts-based method of lyric…

“I would want to see young people working in here, that’s what I want to see…” how peer support opportunities in youth offending services can support a Child First, trauma-informed, and reparative model of practice for youth justice

Naomi Thompson, Meghan Spacey

This paper aims to explore how peer support can support a combined Child First, trauma-informed and restorative approach for youth justice. While other scholars have identified…