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Co-production in Youth Justice

Author: Sean Creaney; Samantha Burns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032992235
Published In: June 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 cr

1- Introducing co-production in youth justice.

Sean Creaney and Samantha Burns

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. Samantha Burns

3- Co-production in youth justice: power-sharing, procedural justice, and reflexive critical pragmatism.

Shelley Turner

4- Challenges in capturing the authentic voice of the ‘unchildlike child’.

Samantha Walker, Rebecca Oswald and Sarah Soppitt

5- Co-production and harm reduction: Collaborating with children assessed as ‘high risk’.

Sean Creaney and Samantha Burns

6- Collaboration with children: Mind the exploitation trap!.

Kierra Myles

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.

Louise Forde

8- Co-producing a Child First Policy Framework for the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership.

Georgia Watkinson

9- Opportunities for progressing trauma-informed youth justice case management through co-production principles.

Catia Malvaso, Andrew Day and Lorna Robinson

10- Using creative arts approaches for co-production in youth justice.

Laura Caulfield and Dean Wilkinson

11- Black Space Making - Co-Creating Hope for Black and Mixed heritage boys in and outside the Criminal Justice System.

John Wainwright

12- Interdisciplinary methodological innovations for enhancing co-production with professionals and children in secure settings.

Stefan Kleipoedszus, Caroline Andow, Raymond Arthur, Rachel Dunn and Nicola Wake

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.

Sarah Nixon

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’.

Naomi Thompson and Morgan Spacey

15- Drawing on lived experience in a Youth Justice context.

David Porteous and Anthony Goodman

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.

Romana Farooq, Katie Burgess and Hannah Smith

17- Co-production as social justice: a reflection on creative consultations with young adults and young people.

Sarah Page, Dana Jundi, Nicky Twemlow, Emma Head and Zsofia Majer

18- Conclusion: co-production as the vehicle? The journey to transform justice with children and young people.

Samantha Burns and Sean Creaney