Sean Creaney
@sfcreaney.bsky.social
Criminologist and Senior Lecturer.
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Knowledge partnerships in youth justice
Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.
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Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.
www.russellwebster.com/knowledge-pa...
Knowledge partnerships in youth justice
Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.
www.russellwebster.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Knowledge partnerships in youth justice
Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.
www.russellwebster.com/knowledge-pa...
Sean Creaney and Jayne Price highlight the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice for HMI Probation.
www.russellwebster.com/knowledge-pa...
April British Society of Criminology (BSC) Book Draw - 'Knowledge and Skills Partnerships in Youth Justice'. Thank you to the BSC, and Routledge for supporting the draw. BSC members email 'info@britsoccrim.org' to enter. Closes 30 April. Full info www.britsoccrim.org/book-draw-2/
Book Draw – British Society of Criminology
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April 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
April British Society of Criminology (BSC) Book Draw - 'Knowledge and Skills Partnerships in Youth Justice'. Thank you to the BSC, and Routledge for supporting the draw. BSC members email 'info@britsoccrim.org' to enter. Closes 30 April. Full info www.britsoccrim.org/book-draw-2/
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Important HMCIS/HIS review about children held in police custody.
@cycjscotland.bsky.social research found that police custody was the most distressing aspect of a child's journey though the justice system shorturl.at/yLG4h
BBC News - Children held too long in police cells shorturl.at/c2h53
@cycjscotland.bsky.social research found that police custody was the most distressing aspect of a child's journey though the justice system shorturl.at/yLG4h
BBC News - Children held too long in police cells shorturl.at/c2h53
Children’s Experiences of Police Custody and the Implications for Trauma-Informed Policing - Nina Vaswani, Kristina Moodie, Donna McEwan, 2024
The development of a trauma-informed Scotland is an ambitious and important agenda, but not without its challenges and limitations. In restrictive settings that...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Important HMCIS/HIS review about children held in police custody.
@cycjscotland.bsky.social research found that police custody was the most distressing aspect of a child's journey though the justice system shorturl.at/yLG4h
BBC News - Children held too long in police cells shorturl.at/c2h53
@cycjscotland.bsky.social research found that police custody was the most distressing aspect of a child's journey though the justice system shorturl.at/yLG4h
BBC News - Children held too long in police cells shorturl.at/c2h53
A special issue of Societies Journal: Youth Justice: Social Policy, Social Work and Practice www.mdpi.com/journal/soci... @drkathyhampson.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A special issue of Societies Journal: Youth Justice: Social Policy, Social Work and Practice www.mdpi.com/journal/soci... @drkathyhampson.bsky.social
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New paper alert! Published in the Youth Justice Journal, I explore the views of Resettlement Officers in YOIs and the range of barriers they face when implementing Constructive Resettlement approaches. ROs described feeling isolated and invisible 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Isolated and Invisible: The Barriers to Implementing Constructive Resettlement Approaches in Two English Young Offenders Institutions - Anne-Marie Day, 2025
The custodial estate for children aged 10–17 years across England and Wales faces a number of challenges. This article focuses on the perceptions of Resettlemen...
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February 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
New paper alert! Published in the Youth Justice Journal, I explore the views of Resettlement Officers in YOIs and the range of barriers they face when implementing Constructive Resettlement approaches. ROs described feeling isolated and invisible 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Hi everyone, to kick off my maiden post please read our newly published paper in the BJC which argues for the abolition of all short term custodial sentences for children, and presents an alternative, viable, cost effective model @drkathyhampson.bsky.social
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Harmful, Expensive and Criminogenic: The Case for Abolishing Detention and Training Orders in England and Wales
Abstract. Children who offend generally receive community sentences, to help them overcome difficulties whilst naturally addressing offending behaviour; ho
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January 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hi everyone, to kick off my maiden post please read our newly published paper in the BJC which argues for the abolition of all short term custodial sentences for children, and presents an alternative, viable, cost effective model @drkathyhampson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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Five reasons to abolish short-term custodial sentences for children
Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful #decarceration according to Kathy Hampson and Anne-Marie Day.
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Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful #decarceration according to Kathy Hampson and Anne-Marie Day.
www.russellwebster.com/five-reasons...
Five reasons to abolish short-term custodial sentences for children - Russell Webster
Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day.
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January 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Five reasons to abolish short-term custodial sentences for children
Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful #decarceration according to Kathy Hampson and Anne-Marie Day.
www.russellwebster.com/five-reasons...
Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful #decarceration according to Kathy Hampson and Anne-Marie Day.
www.russellwebster.com/five-reasons...
Problematising the potentials of music programs to address Australia’s youth justice policy problems
Alexis Anja Kallio
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alexis Anja Kallio
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Problematising the potentials of music programs to address Australia’s youth justice policy problems
Reflecting an international shift from punitive to more rehabilitative responses to youth offending, many Australian youth justice systems are undergoing significant revision and reform. The urgenc...
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February 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Problematising the potentials of music programs to address Australia’s youth justice policy problems
Alexis Anja Kallio
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alexis Anja Kallio
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"This book is the first to bring together academics and professionals in youth justice to examine the benefits of exchanging their knowledge and practice." - Professor Raymond Arthur, Northumbria University www.routledge.com/Knowledge-an... @rmooreresearch.bsky.social @drkathyhampson.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"This book is the first to bring together academics and professionals in youth justice to examine the benefits of exchanging their knowledge and practice." - Professor Raymond Arthur, Northumbria University www.routledge.com/Knowledge-an... @rmooreresearch.bsky.social @drkathyhampson.bsky.social
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Hundreds of incarcerated folks are fighting fires in California— earning between $5.80 and $10.24 per *day* plus $1 per hour during active emergencies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR
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January 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Hundreds of incarcerated folks are fighting fires in California— earning between $5.80 and $10.24 per *day* plus $1 per hour during active emergencies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Editorial: Children’s participation in youth justice: Actions speak louder than words. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publicati...
Editorial: Children’s participation in youth justice: Actions speak louder than words
research.edgehill.ac.uk
January 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Editorial: Children’s participation in youth justice: Actions speak louder than words. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publicati...
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Calling all comms and engagement experts📣
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to make a difference for children & young people in conflict with the law.
£36,924–£45,163 | Glasgow | Fixed Term (till Mar 2026)
Apply by Jan 5 | Interviews: Jan 14
🔗 Details: lnkd.in/eixW-MUa
#CommunicationsJob
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to make a difference for children & young people in conflict with the law.
£36,924–£45,163 | Glasgow | Fixed Term (till Mar 2026)
Apply by Jan 5 | Interviews: Jan 14
🔗 Details: lnkd.in/eixW-MUa
#CommunicationsJob
December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Calling all comms and engagement experts📣
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to make a difference for children & young people in conflict with the law.
£36,924–£45,163 | Glasgow | Fixed Term (till Mar 2026)
Apply by Jan 5 | Interviews: Jan 14
🔗 Details: lnkd.in/eixW-MUa
#CommunicationsJob
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to make a difference for children & young people in conflict with the law.
£36,924–£45,163 | Glasgow | Fixed Term (till Mar 2026)
Apply by Jan 5 | Interviews: Jan 14
🔗 Details: lnkd.in/eixW-MUa
#CommunicationsJob
Transforming the Balance of Power? Child First Collaboration: A Conceptual Analysis www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/14...
Transforming the Balance of Power? Child First Collaboration: A Conceptual Analysis
Collaboration is one of the major tenets of Child First justice and yet is proving problematic in its application across the sector, especially where children are compelled through court orders to eng...
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December 12, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Transforming the Balance of Power? Child First Collaboration: A Conceptual Analysis www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/14...
‘It’s a sixth sense...I see you, you see me, and we’ve been there’: Benefits and challenges of developing a peer mentoring scheme with young people in youth justice services mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/wp-cont...
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December 7, 2024 at 11:13 AM
‘It’s a sixth sense...I see you, you see me, and we’ve been there’: Benefits and challenges of developing a peer mentoring scheme with young people in youth justice services mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/wp-cont...
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New Publication: "The Rehabilitation Industry: Lived Experience and Performance" (10min read)
Andi Brierley & I explore our observations of what we describe as a Rehabilitation Industry and reflect on our roles within it
We pose tough questions for all CJS stakeholders—read & join the discussion!
Andi Brierley & I explore our observations of what we describe as a Rehabilitation Industry and reflect on our roles within it
We pose tough questions for all CJS stakeholders—read & join the discussion!
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December 6, 2024 at 1:13 AM
New Publication: "The Rehabilitation Industry: Lived Experience and Performance" (10min read)
Andi Brierley & I explore our observations of what we describe as a Rehabilitation Industry and reflect on our roles within it
We pose tough questions for all CJS stakeholders—read & join the discussion!
Andi Brierley & I explore our observations of what we describe as a Rehabilitation Industry and reflect on our roles within it
We pose tough questions for all CJS stakeholders—read & join the discussion!
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📢We've been awarded a huge UK research fellowship #UKRIFLF to study how lived experience leaders imagine the future of criminal justice🎉If you have ideas, get in touch www.chester.ac.uk/about/news/a...
December 5, 2024 at 12:28 PM
📢We've been awarded a huge UK research fellowship #UKRIFLF to study how lived experience leaders imagine the future of criminal justice🎉If you have ideas, get in touch www.chester.ac.uk/about/news/a...
NEW article: “Understanding the importance of therapeutic interventions to support families experiencing child-to-parent abuse: process evaluation insight from the parallel lives programme” www.emerald.com/insight/cont... By Dr Gemma Morgan and Dr Joe Janes. Available on EarlyCite. Safer Communities
Understanding the importance of therapeutic interventions to support families experiencing child-to-parent abuse: process evaluation insight from the parallel lives programme
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December 3, 2024 at 4:39 PM
NEW article: “Understanding the importance of therapeutic interventions to support families experiencing child-to-parent abuse: process evaluation insight from the parallel lives programme” www.emerald.com/insight/cont... By Dr Gemma Morgan and Dr Joe Janes. Available on EarlyCite. Safer Communities
If the UK is to come close to breaking the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition theconversation.com/crime-and-no...
Crime and nourishment – the link between food and offending behaviour
If the UK is to break the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:17 PM
If the UK is to come close to breaking the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition theconversation.com/crime-and-no...
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The brains of young people are developing until about age 25, limiting their ability to make rational decisions and control impulses. Youth justice policies that ignore this risk failure.
We know enough about brain development to know youth offending reforms probably won’t work
The brains of young people are developing until about age 25, limiting their ability to make rational decisions and control impulses. Youth justice policies that ignore this risk failure.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:31 AM
The brains of young people are developing until about age 25, limiting their ability to make rational decisions and control impulses. Youth justice policies that ignore this risk failure.
The terms child first, child participation, children’s voice, and co-production are used interchangeably with little thought as to what they mean for youth justice practice ‘on the ground’. 1/2 mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/editori...
Editorial (Issue 19: Issue 2) - BJCJ
In theory, children in conflict with the law have the legal right to have their opinions taken into account and are entitled to contribute to a criminal justice system’s response to their own behaviou...
mmuperu.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 11:01 PM
The terms child first, child participation, children’s voice, and co-production are used interchangeably with little thought as to what they mean for youth justice practice ‘on the ground’. 1/2 mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/editori...
Many thanks to the authors/speakers for delivering insightful and engaging presentations at our participatory youth justice event yesterday, hosted by the British Journal of Community Justice. Link here to access all the papers in the special issue: mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/volumes...
BJCJ (Volume 19: Issue 2) - BJCJ
mmuperu.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Many thanks to the authors/speakers for delivering insightful and engaging presentations at our participatory youth justice event yesterday, hosted by the British Journal of Community Justice. Link here to access all the papers in the special issue: mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/volumes...
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Academics need to take responsibility for the need to have imagination when it comes to criminology and we need to be bold says Prof Smithson: it’s not enough to just say “child first”
November 28, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Academics need to take responsibility for the need to have imagination when it comes to criminology and we need to be bold says Prof Smithson: it’s not enough to just say “child first”
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Next up Prof Hannah Smithson who sounds a note of caution: we need to look at what’s really going on behind the positive data, such as the reduction in the number of children in prison and challenge ourselves about how much we are influencing change
November 28, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Next up Prof Hannah Smithson who sounds a note of caution: we need to look at what’s really going on behind the positive data, such as the reduction in the number of children in prison and challenge ourselves about how much we are influencing change