Dr Diana Johns is a senior lecturer in criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she researches and teaches across the domains of prisons and punishment, children/young people and the criminal legal system, and criminal justice knowledge production. Her book Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner was published by Routledge in 2018.

Dr Catherine Flynn is an associate professor in social work in the Faculty of Nursing, Medicine and Health Sciences at Monash University. Her area of expertise is criminal justice and social work, with a particular focus on the implications for children and families of justice policies and interventions.

Dr Maggie Hall is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. She is a criminologist and former criminal lawyer and social worker. Her work foregrounds the experience of the subjects of criminal justice. Her monograph The Lived Sentence (2017) is part of the Prisons series published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Dr Claire Spivakovsky is a senior lecturer in criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on the violent, restrictive, and coercive practices that are used to segregate and control people with disability in the community.

Dr Shelley Turner is the chief social worker at Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health). She holds adjunct academic appointments in social work at Monash University and RMIT University and at the Swinburne Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science. Her research focuses on youth justice, adult corrections, forensic mental health, and problem-solving courts.

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This book explores co-production of knowledge in criminal justice contexts: in prisons and youth detention centres; with criminalised women; from practitioners' perspectives; and with First Nations communities. It considers which voices are heard in the controlled settings of courts, prisons, police and non-government justice agencies.

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Part 1. 1 Co-production and criminal justice 2. Power, hierarchy, and ways of knowing Part 2. 3. User Voice prison councils 4. Co-production with criminalised women 5. Practitioner perspectives on co-production 6. Keeping on Country Part 3. 7. The whats and what-ifs of co-production 8. Now what?