Publications

Lived experience informed criminal justice social work in England: A case of generative justice?

Danica Darley and Gill Buck

Generative Justice in Hindsight: On Knowing, doing, and sharing participatory arts-based research with criminal justice-impacted communities

Emma Murray, Lucia Arias, Gill Buck, Kemi Ryan, and Natasha Ryan

Mapping lived experience contributions to criminal justice

Gill Buck

Experience for justice: How lived experience is changing ideas about criminal justice and criminology in the UK

Scott Kidd, Rod Earle, Laura Sheffield-Kidd, Gill Buck, Shadd Maruna, Paula Harriott, Danica Darley, Lucy Cambell, Max Dennehy, Fleur Riley, Donna Arrondelle

All our justice: People with convictions and ‘participatory’ criminal justice

Gill Buck, Paula Harriott, Kemi Ryan, Natasha Ryan and Philippa Tomczak

Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

Coproducing recovery with people affected by substance use and criminalization

Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography

Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work

Practicing lived experience leadership with love: Photovoice reflections of a community-led crime prevention project

Newsletter: May 2025

Newsletter: November 2025

We invite you into a tale of lived experience-led reform, told through one woman’s history…

This creative fairy-story retelling draws on the power of stories to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and deepen understanding (McNeill, 2026; Vučković, 2023). Through emotional connection, empathy, and a ‘sociological imagination’ (Furman et al., 2006; Mills, 1959), readers are encouraged to link one woman’s life to wider system patterns. In re-storying lived experience, we show how inherited narratives can be reshaped, and imagination itself can become a site of political action.

We thank Professor Fergus McNeill for the fairy story framework (McNeill, 2026) and the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement (FACT, 2019), whose reworked tales inspired this retelling.

Advisory Group 1, November 2024