1. Just Listen Digital storytelling in Criminal Justice
Carlotta Allum

2. Brief History of Stretch
My history, where Stretch came from – early projects – working with objects and prisons

5. Why digital storytelling ?
Reflect on and re-imagine meta narratives about
their lives
Possibilities to present themselves at various points in the process
Important tool for directing attention to their lives
Make meaning and knowledge through multi media, music, film, poetry
Creative process to talk through
Importance of agency and allowing the authentic voice to be heard – power of imagination and re-biographising yourself – democratises knowledge – usually written word is privaliged but young people

9. Digital storytelling and restorative justice
“Building social capital and achieving social discipline through participatory learning, these initiatives can be used an alternative to custody in some offences such as bullying, assaults, drugs and property damage”
“Digital stories enabled participants to process restorative values and their social worlds through re-contextualization and re-articulation of selves in the digital storytelling process
DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAMS New York programme - The
YNY curriculum encourages individuals to connect with their families and communities while
concurrently taking responsibility for their unlawful actions through various art exercises
including photography, video, illustration, and design. The workshops culminate in a digital
story about each participant's arraignment, interviews with their families about how their crimes
have affected the family, reflections about their crimes, and community public art ideas.
The findings suggest that applying restorative principles and practices may
provide a useful framework for meeting the needs of youthful offenders by holding them
accountable for developing a heighted sense of empathy and respect. The findings further
suggest that practitioners of such programs may want to consider developing other programs that
foster empathy among victims through media-arts projects.
The digital storytelling process allowed offenders to take personal action and
responsibility and to raise awareness of their capabilities to cope with adversity in a variety of
ways. First, participants used their narrative voices to create a discourse about their crimes, their
impact, and ways to improve their communities, Second, the process of creating
multiple artifacts to build a digital story assisted YNY participants in processing restorative
values. The creation of digital stories promoted the decontextualization and retextualization of
restorative justice values

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Working with UAL and their Design Against Crime Research Centre
Looking at the tracking the creative process in prisoners and how that can change their thinking – and how that in turn can contribute to desistance fro returning citizens –
Will be using storytelling and participatory visual and digital research methods