Dr Jayne Price
Deputy Head, Social and Political Science
Dr Jayne Price is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Criminology at the University of Chester. Within this role, Jayne is responsible for the leadership, management and assessment of the course. This includes the ongoing curriculum development and communicating with internal and external stakeholders. A key feature of this role includes supporting students in their positive experience of the course through ongoing feedback loops and reflexive practice. Dr Price is also working towards her MA Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and holds Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Jayne's research interests include the lived experience of youth justice and criminal justice systems, and advocating for promoting positive social change within these services and institutions.
Jayne teaches across the undergraduate Criminology programme and supervises a number of postgraduate students.
Her principal research interests lie within the youth justice/young adult agenda and the experiences of this population within the Criminal Justice System. This has included her PhD research which sought to establish the most effective and progressive ways of supporting young people through transitions between the juvenile secure estate and young adult estate. Further research into young peoples' experiences of the Youth Justice System has included participatory methods. Through practical experience and academic research, has sound knowledge and holistic understanding of the youth justice and young adult agenda, policy and practice. Jayne has also been involved within a project exploring widening participation and the involvement of those with criminal convictions accessing and participating in University life.
Wilkinson, D., Price, J. and Crossley, C. (2022) Developing creative methodologies: using lyric writing to capture young peoples’ experiences of the youth offending services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Criminological Policy and Practice. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
Price, J. (2021). Ethically sensitive research with ‘children’ and ‘adults’ in custody, in G. Spencer (ed.) Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People (pp. 57-72). Emerald Publishing.
Price, J. (2021). The impacts of the drop in staffing provision in the transition between the youth custody estate and young adult/adult estate. Prison Service Journal, 256, pp. 23-29. PSJ 256 September 2021 Inside Pages
Price, J. (2021) Violence, Control and Restraint: The Harms to Young Adults Particularly Upon Transition, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
Price, J. & Turner, J. (2021) (Custodial) spaces to grow? Adolescent development during custodial transitions, Journal of Youth Studies.
Price, J. (2020) The experience of young people transitioning between youth offending services to probation services. Probation journal. Advance online publication.
Price, J. (2020) Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time. By Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley and Serena Wright [book review]. British Journal of Criminology. Advance online publication.
Conference presentations
British Society of Criminology 2022
Chaired and presented in Youth stream, paper entitled: Using creative methods to explore the experiences of staff and young people in Youth Justice Services during Covid-19.
European Society of Criminology Conference Presentation and Chair 2021
Chaired Juvenile Justice, Reactions, Responses and Interventions session. Presented a paper entitled ‘The criminal age of majority in England and Wales and the case for a distinct approach for young adults’.
British Society of Criminology 2021 Online Conference
The harms experienced by young adults transitioning from the youth custody estate to the adult estate.
University of Chester Learning and Teaching Institute Conference 2021
Writing retreats as spaces to build community within online learning.
Howard League for Penal Reform 2020
The particular needs of young adults who have become ‘adult’ in the criminal justice system. Paper accepted – conference cancelled due to Covid-19.
British Sociological Association – Youth Transitions workshop 2020
3rd September - Invited panel discussant PGR to ECR and youth transitions
British Society of Criminology Conference 2019 Lincoln
4th July
Youth Violence Seminar 2019 Nottingham Trent University
28th June - Attended by academics and local practitioners
Postgraduate Conference 2018 University of Liverpool
3rd July
British Sociological Association 2017 Manchester
5th April – Exploring the pathways and transitions young people experience between the juvenile secure estate and adult penal institutions.
The Politics of Marginalised Groups 2016 University of Manchester
21st September - Exploring the pathways and transitions young people experience between the juvenile secure estate and adult penal institutions.
Leeds Centre of Youth Research Child and Youth Poverty Conference 2016 Leeds
16th September - Exploring the pathways and transitions young people experience between the juvenile secure estate and adult penal institutions.
Working with Young Adult Offenders Conference 2016 Norway
1st September - Exploring the pathways and transitions young people experience between the juvenile secure estate and adult penal institutions.
British Society of Criminology Postgraduate Conference 2016 Nottingham
6th July - Exploring the pathways and transitions young people experience between the juvenile secure estate and adult penal institutions.
POP Fest Conference 2016 Manchester
5th July - Exploring the pathways and transitions young people experience between the juvenile secure estate and adult penal institutions.
- Postgraduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
- PhD Criminology ‘Exploring pathways and transitions between the juvenile secure estate and young adult/adult estate’ University of Liverpool
- MA Criminal Justice Liverpool John Moores University
- BA (Hons) Criminology with psychology Liverpool John Moores University
Membership
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy