OUR POSITION PAPER
TryJustice developed a Position paper as a key early output outlining the core issues in Youth Justice currently, and identifying that siloed approaches aren’t meeting the needs of children. An opportunity exists for transdisciplinary work to bridge the gaps between disciplinary insights into youth justice, and improving life outcomes for children. This approach enables a deep, multi-layered understanding of a highly complex phenomenon. This is important as positive change can happen at micro- and macro- levels, including specific interventions at institutional, local, or national level, as well as the shifting political and cultural context.
The aim of this paper was to set the rationale for the TRYJustice Group and lay the foundations upon which we will develop our contributions to the field. We used the case of Charlie (a real life young person within the youth justice system) as a way for the different disciplines to anchor their explanations of Charlie's experiences, in order to explore how a transdisciplinary approach could offer new insights transcending traditional multi-disciplinary perspectives.
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