Youth and Justice

• Young people and the criminal justice system
• Desistance
• Ethnicity
• Communities
• Families and justice
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Citizenship
• Mobile and participatory methods
• Transitions

• Evaluation of Streetlife project (2021-22)
• Evaluation of Reaching Communities Project - Lancashire BME network 2021-22
• Child First Pathfinder Evaluation of Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Services ( Diversion and alternative disposals) 2021-22
• Evaluation of Diversion and Prevention Services - Lancashire, Cumbria, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool Youth Offending Services 2020-22

Larkins, C., Crook, D., O'Riordan, Z., Thomas, D. and Froggett, L. (2023) We Can Connect: Imagining the Future of Digital Practice with and by Care Experienced Children and Young People. Adoption & Fostering. ISSN 0308-5759.

Bacon, K. and O'Riordan, Zoe (2023) Who do you think you are? Children's definitions of being a ‘child'. Children & Society. ISSN 0951-0605.

Barter, C., Lanau, A., Stanley, N., Aghtaie, N. and Överlien, C., 2021. Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships. Journal of Youth Studies, pp.1-17.

Wilson, S. & Mcguire, K. (2021) ‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement. British Journal of Sociology of Education. ISSN 0142-5692.

Bracewell, K., Larkins, C., & Stanley, N. (2021). Teenagers’ access to digital technologies and refuge life: balancing safety, risk and protectionism. Journal of Gender-Based Violence. doi: 10.1332/239868021x16141629872905.

Bracewell, Kelly, Larkins, Cath, Radford, Lorraine and Stanley, Nicky (2020) Educational Opportunities and Obstacles for Teenagers Living in Domestic Violence Refuges. Child Abuse Review. ISSN 0952-9136.

Karolia I. and Wainwright J. (2020) We are the same; but different: A duoethnography of people of colour who are care leavers’ Genealogy (2020), 4(3), 80; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4030080.

Radcliffe, P., Roy, A.N., Barter, C. A, Tompkins, C. and Brooks, M. (2020) A qualitative study of the practices and experiences of staff in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation partnerships in three English coastal towns. Social Policy & Administration.

Salter, M., and McGuire, K. (2020) The Lived Experience of Hate Crime. Contributions to Phenomenology. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-33886-2.

Froggett, L., Kelly-Corless, L., and Manley, J. (2019) ‘Feeling real and rehearsal for reality: psychosocial aspects of ‘forum theatre’ in care settings and prisons’, Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 12 (1-2). pp. 23-39.

Wainwright, J.P., and Larkins, C. (2019) Race, Ethnicity, Young People and Offending: the Elephant in the Room. Social Identities. ISSN 1350-4630.

Wainwright, J.P., Mckeown, M., and Kinney, M. (2019) ‘In these streets’: The saliency of place in an alternative black mental health resource centre. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare DOI: IJHRH-08-2019-0062.

Wainwright J., and Mckeown, M. (2019) Place and race: sanctuary, asylum and community belonging. P. 198-215 in Inside Out, Outside In Transforming Mental Health Practices ed Gijbels H., Sapouna L., and Sidley G.

Barter, C., Stanley, N., Wood, M., Lanau, Alba., Aghtaie, Nadia., Larkins, C. and Øverlien, C. (2017) Young people’s online and face-to-face experiences of interpersonal violence and abuse and their subjective impact across five European countries. Psychology of Violence, Vol 7(3), Jul 2017, 375-384.

Thomas, Nigel, Crowley, Anne, Moxon, Dan, Street, Cathy, Ridley, Julie, and Joshi, Puja (2017) ‘Independent advocacy for children and young people: developing an outcomes framework’, Children & Society, advance online publication. DOI:10.1111/chso.12207.

Froggett, Lynn, Wainwright, John, Roy, Alastair Neil, and Manley, Julian (2016) Gift Shop Project. Psychosocial Research Unit. UCLan. Preston, Lancashire.

Vearey, J., Barter, C., Hynes, P. and McGinn, A. (2016) Research ethics in practice: lessons from studies exploring intimate partner violence in different contexts, Families, Relationships and Societies. Online 26th August 2016.

Roy, Alastair Neil and Chilvers, Mark (2014) Mobile Citizens: A pilot project training young people to become citizen journalists using mobile phone technology. Project Report. Kids Company, London.

Larkins, Cath and Wainwright, John (2013) 'Just putting me on the right track': Young people's perspectives on what helps them stop offending. Project Report. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire.

Child First Conference
15 June 2022

125 practitioners and academics registered to attend our third bi-annual youth justice worker workforce development event. This was in partnership with Lancashire Children and Youth Justice Services, Blackburn with Darwen Youth Justice Services, Cumbria Youth Offending Services, Liverpool Targeted Young People Services and Blackpool Youth Offending Services.

Speakers included:

• Keith Fraser, Chair of the Youth Justice Board
• Stephen Case, Loughborough University
• Lancashire Child First Diversion - UCLan and Lancashire CYJS
• Lads Like Us
• Dez Holmes, Research in Practice

Several workshops also took place including:

• The Children of Modern Slavery Tony Kelly, Liverpool Targeted Young Peoples Services;
• Child First – Community Policing strategies, Cumbria, Inspector Gemma Hannah and Richard Scoffham;
• Child First Restorative Approach – Restorative Justice Teams;
• Trauma-Informed Transitions from Children to Adult Services – Dr, Ruth Parkes UCLan, Rebecca Fisher Lancashire Children and Youth Justice Services and Stacey Dugdale NPS;
• Youth violence and social media – Dr Jo Bryce and Beth Hall, University of Central Lancashire;
• Serious Youth Violence / ACEs / Impact on Covid on contextualised safeguarding –

Professor Hannah Smithson and Dr Paul Gray Manchester Metropolitan University and Tom Lang, Manchester Youth Justice;

• Child to Parent violence (trauma-informed) – Professor Nicola Graham-Kevan, UCLan;
• Trauma-informed Restorative Practice – Nic Ellis, Clinical Psychologist

Race, Place and Justice
16 March 2022

This free online conference was organised by the Centre for Criminal Justice Research and Partnerships, the Global Race Centre for Equality – GRACE, UCLan Peace and Justice Studies Network. and MIDEX Centre (Migration, Diaspora and Exile) all based at the University of Central Lancashire

The interactive online conference represented an opportunity to contribute to debates concerning rac(ism), identity, diversity, community cohesion, conflict and justice. The event brought together the ideas and perspectives of leading academics, policymakers, practitioners, and community workers, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the key debates. Speakers included:

• Dr Patrick Williams, MMU
  Black deaths, police institutional killing and the fabrication of justice

• Professor Paul Miller, Educational Equity Services
  Education as a social vaccine: tackling Gender-Based Violence

• Professor Karen Wright, UCLan
  Hearing silenced stories of slavery. Exploring the impact of domestic servitude on mental health.

• Beth Hall, PhD student UCLan
  The use of grime and drill lyrics as a form of ethnographic data to understand ‘gangs’ and serious youth violence

• Ian Palmer, UCLan
  Race, Place and Justice: the role of police legitimacy

• Jonathan Prasad, GRACE, UCLan
  Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold: Social Welfare Reform, Covid 19 and BAME communities in Lancashire

• Professor Nathan Stephens, Illinois State University
  Concrete Roses: How policies racialise and impact the lives of young black menowHow policies racilaizehow

• Ruth Parkes
• Dr Yasmin Ali
• Professor Joanne Westwood
• Dr John Wainwright
• Professor Alastair Roy
• Professor Cath Larkins
• Dr Laura Kelly-Corless
• Professor Christine Barter
• Suzanne Wilson
• Dr Kelly Bracewell
• Dr Leona Mydlowski
• Professor Helen Beckett
• Dr Rebecca Hibbin
• Dr Jen Hough

• The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation
• Independent Advocacy: Impact and Outcomes for Children and Young People Report
• Spaces and Styles of Participation: Formal, non-formal and informal possibilities of young people’s participation in European cities. PARTISPACE

There are four other research groups under the Criminal Justice Partnership theme. Find out more below:

• Prisons and Probation
• Policing
• Mental Health and Criminal Justice
• Trauma, Adversity and Criminal Justice

For further information, contact our Criminal Justice Team via email.