What is it about?
This paper considers ways in which young people can be included in the development of youth justice policy and practice that considers and responds to impacts of maltreatment and adversity. We discuss this in terms of trauma informed youth justice and the coproduction of services and programs.
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Why is it important?
We argue that services need to work with and for people rather than try to do things to them or manage them. This paper describes an approach that is sensitive to the experiences that young people have before they come to the criminal justice system and underscores the importance of listening to them about what will work best.
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It is sometimes hard for those who work in the criminal justice to remember that it is the people who they work with who know best about what will help. And so to work well means showing compassion and humility.
Andrew Day
University of Melbourne
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This page is a summary of: Co-producing trauma-informed youth justice in Australia?, Safer Communities, January 2023, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/sc-08-2022-0030.
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