Envisioning social justice with criminalized young adults
Weaver, Beth and McCulloch, Trish and Vaswani, Nina (2024) Envisioning social justice with criminalized young adults. The British Journal of Criminology, 64 (3). pp. 675-692. ISSN 0007-0955 (https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad052)
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Abstract
Rather than attending to the social harms underpinning youth offending, justice responses tend to amplify and entrench them. While perhaps less noticeable, inequalities further reside in the systematic disparities in criminalized young adults’ opportunities to influence policy and practice and to have control of the choices concerning their present and their future. Resultantly, perhaps, there is a significant disconnect between policy and practice directed towards this group, their lived realities and developmentally specific needs. This article reports on a design-led, participatory study involving 12 criminalized young adults, aged 18–25, oriented to listening to, and learning from, their experiences and visions of social justice in order to influence more socially just responses to offending than we have at present.
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Item type: Article ID code: 92507 Dates: DateEvent1 May 2024Published25 September 2023Published Online30 August 2023Accepted13 December 2022SubmittedSubjects: Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice
Law > Law (General)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Children and Young People's Centre for Justice (CYCJ)Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Apr 2025 13:51 Last modified: 02 Apr 2025 01:42 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/92507