Co‐creating youth justice practice with young people: Tackling power dynamics and enabling transformative action

This paper provides an account of an innovative research project that enabled the co‐creation with justice‐involved young people of a transformative framework of practice, termed Participatory Youth Practice (PYP). We present a description of our participatory research processes and reflect on our a...

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Published in:Children & society Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 348 - 362
Main Authors: Smithson, Hannah, Jones, Anna
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2021
Subjects:
Action research
co‐creation
Justice
Juvenile justice
Participation
Participatory research
Power
Power structure
transformative practice
Youth
youth justice
ISSN:0951-0605, 1099-0860
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Summary:This paper provides an account of an innovative research project that enabled the co‐creation with justice‐involved young people of a transformative framework of practice, termed Participatory Youth Practice (PYP). We present a description of our participatory research processes and reflect on our attempts to rebalance inherent power dynamics when working with marginalised young people. We demonstrate how young people's meaningful participation in research can strengthen their participation in service design and delivery. The embedding of the PYP framework in youth justice practice across a large region in England is a formative step in understanding the importance of young people's participation.
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ISSN:0951-0605
1099-0860
DOI:10.1111/chso.12441