Youth Justice Seminar at the Children's Research Centre

[nicola carr]

Children's Research Centre (Trinity College Dublin) Seminar Series

17th February at 4pm in the Education Room 3-4 Foster Place

Participative Action Research and the Perspective of Girls in Youth
Justice

Angela Veale, Anna Fiona Keogh & Ursula Kilkelly
Department of Applied Psychology, University College of Cork, Cork,
Ireland
This paper presents an IRCHSS funded Participative Action Research
project (PAR) that utilized a creative arts methodology (puppetry,
role-play/drama/film-making) to gather a unique view of the youth
justice system from girls’ perspectives. Creative arts workshops were
held with 9 female participants, accessed through the Youth Advocate
Programme, over three months followed by a five month ‘social action’
phase that resulted in the production of a DVD. This DVD has been used
as a springboard for a continuing dialogue with the Garda Síochána.
This paper will particularly focus on the process of analysing the
rich, layered data stemming from PAR methods.