In conversation: An inside perspective of youth justice practice and experience
| Published date | 01 June 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/02645505241241586 |
| Author | Andi Brierley,Kierra Myles |
| Date | 01 June 2024 |
| Subject Matter | Comment piece |
In conversation:
An inside perspective
of youth justice practice
and experience
Andi Brierley
Leeds Trinity University, UK
Kierra Myles
University of Suffolk, UK
Abstract
This reflective, dialogue between two youth justice professionals who have lived
experience of being incarcerated children aims to provide an insight into their unique
transition. Although living in very different parts of Britain, they discuss and reflect
upon similarities in terms of strengths and challenges that come with being formerly
incarcerated youth justice practitioners. Both authors share their insights of youth just-
ice developments, their perspectives of participatory practice and how experiential
knowing can impact relationship building with justice involved children.
Keywords
Child First, participation, desistance, lived experience, experiential peers, peer mentors
Introduction
This paper is a dialogue that explores how the ‘pains of transition’of being a previ-
ously incarcerated child can play out when that child becomes an adult practitioner
in the youth justice system (YJS). Both authors have travelled through this unique tran-
sitional phenomenon and explore this through their embodied experiences of justice
interventions as well as other theoretical perspectives. The dialogue examines both
Corresponding Author:
Andi Brierley, Psychology, Criminology & Sociology, Leeds Trinity University, AG32, Brownberrie Ln,
Horsforth LS18 5HD, UK.
Email: a.brierley@leedstrinity.ac.uk
Comment piece The Journal of Communit
y
and Criminal Justice
Probation Journal
2024, Vol. 71(2) 179–185
© The Author(s) 2024
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