Reflective Participatory Crime Prevention Education and Solution Finding through World Café and Forum Theatre with Young People and Young Adults
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PAGE, Sarah (2023) Reflective Participatory Crime Prevention Education and Solution Finding through World Café and Forum Theatre with Young People and Young Adults. Safer Communities, 22 (3). pp. 156-171. ISSN 1757-8043
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Purpose: This article aims to provide reflective practice insights on the use of the participatory approaches of World Café and Forum Theatre as crime prevention education and research tools with young people and young adults, through a social learning theory lens.
Design: Four independent case-studies showcase World Café and Forum Theatre methodology. World Café events investigated 1) New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) awareness with young hostel users and college pupils (N = 22), and 2) race hate crime with school and college pupils (N = 57). Forum Theatre events explored 1) loan shark crime with college and university students (N = 46), and 2) domestic abuse crime with young hostel users and college and university students (N = 28). Anonymous survey data produced qualitative and descriptive statistical data.
Findings: Learning impacts from participatory crime prevention education and research events were evidenced. Participatory approaches were perceived positively, although, large group discussion-based methodologies may not suit all young people or all criminological topics.
Originality: Participatory approaches of World Café and Forum Theatre are vehicles for 1) social learning and crime prevention with young people and young adults, 2) eliciting crime victimisation data and 3) generating personal solutions, alongside wider policy and practice improvement suggestions. Whilst World Café elicited greater lived experience accounts providing peer-level social learning, Forum Theatre provided crucial visual role modelling for communicating safeguarding messages.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | participatory research, participatory education, youth crime prevention, world café, forum theatre, drugs, racism, loan sharks, domestic abuse |
| Faculty: | School of Law, Policing and Forensics > Sociology, Criminology and Terrorism |
| Depositing User: | Sarah PAGE |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2023 09:03 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2023 07:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/7617 |
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