Centre for Social Research & Methods
- Education & training
- Programs & research
- Working papers
- Methods research papers
- COVID-19 publications
- Other publications
Related Sites
- ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
- Research School of Social Sciences
- Australian National Internships Program
You are here
Literature Review on Yarning Circles in a Criminal Justice Context
The ACT Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACS) has developed and is implementing the Yarning Circles for Justice (YCJ) program, which operates a post-prison program, as well an in-prison yarning circle program. As set out in the ACT Government’s information paper about yarning circles and other relevant programs (JACS 2020), YCJ was designed, in partnership with the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, as a series of culturally informed programs for men and women. It seeks to engage participants in building capacity, to manage daily life outside prison, empower them to re-establish crucial links to community and culture, and restore positive relationships with friends, family and peers.
This report presents a select literature review on yarning circles within the justice system, to provide insight into the unique cultural elements of yarning practices and inform how yarning circles can best operate
in ACT justice system. This report provides a summary of:
• options for the use of yarning circles for adults, to reduce offending for those engaged in
the justice system and support the aim of reduced incarceration and recidivism;
• options regarding the use of yarning circles as the delivery method, or key element, of
criminogenic interventions;
• examples of yarning circles in the community and in prison; and
• recommendations regarding future evaluations of yarning circles in the ACT.
- Yarning_Circles_Literature_Review_FINAL_.pdf ( PDF , 680.51 KB )
Tweets by @WhatAustThinks
There were no tweets found.
Connect with us
Updated: 14 October 2022 / Responsible Officer: Centre Director / Page Contact: CASS Marketing & Communications
- Contact ANU
- Freedom of Information
+61 2 6125 5111 The Australian National University, Canberra TEQSA Provider ID: PRV12002 (Australian University) CRICOS Provider : 00120C ABN : 52 234 063 906
- Help & FAQ
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context
Research output : Other contribution
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Publisher | |
| Place of Publication | Canberra, Australia |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
T1 - Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context
AU - Taylor, Helen
AU - Bartels, Lorana
AU - Crowe, Maddison
AU - Marshall, Virginia
M3 - Other contribution
PB - ACT Government
CY - Canberra, Australia
- ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
- ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
- ANU College of Business & Economics
- ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science
- ANU College of Law
- ANU College of Medicine & Health
- ANU College of Science
- » more academic areas
- Search query Search
Researchers
Search our research
- Researcher profiles
- Flagged profiles
Quick links
- Research Services Division
- ANU Research
- Digital Theses
- ANU Repository
- ANU E Press
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context
Anu authors.
- Dr Helen Taylor
- Professor Lorana Bartels
- Dr Virginia Marshall
Updated: 10 September 2024 / Responsible Officer: Director (Research Services Division) / Page Contact: Researchers
- Contact ANU
- Freedom of Information
+61 2 6125 5111 The Australian National University, Canberra CRICOS Provider : 00120C ABN : 52 234 063 906
- ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
- ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
- ANU College of Business & Economics
- ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science
- ANU College of Law
- ANU College of Medicine & Health
- ANU College of Science
- » more academic areas
- Search query Search
Researchers
Search our research
- Researcher profiles
- Flagged profiles
Quick links
- Research Services Division
- ANU Research
- Digital Theses
- ANU Repository
- ANU E Press
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context
Anu authors.
- Dr Helen Taylor
- Professor Lorana Bartels
- Dr Virginia Marshall
Updated: 10 September 2024 / Responsible Officer: Director (Research Services Division) / Page Contact: Researchers
- Contact ANU
- Freedom of Information
+61 2 6125 5111 The Australian National University, Canberra CRICOS Provider : 00120C ABN : 52 234 063 906
- Help & FAQ
Yarning Circles Literature Review
- Taylor, Helen (PI)
Project : Research
Project Details
Description.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 17/11/21 → 17/12/21 |
Fingerprint
- Social Research Arts and Humanities 100%
- Research Methods Arts and Humanities 100%
- Circle Arts and Humanities 100%
- Literature Review Arts and Humanities 100%
- Literature Reviews Social Sciences 100%
- Scientific Methods Social Sciences 100%
- Empirical evidence Arts and Humanities 50%
- Research Collaboration Arts and Humanities 50%
Speaking Together: Reflections on Reconciliation, Yarning Circles, and Signature Pedagogies
- First Online: 17 June 2020
Cite this chapter
- Cathy Brigden 5 ,
- Al Fricker 5 ,
- Richard Johnson 5 &
- Andrea Chester 5
3811 Accesses
4 Citations
As long as there have been people in Australia, there has been pedagogy—learning approaches and teaching methods.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Subscribe and save.
- Get 10 units per month
- Download Article/Chapter or eBook
- 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
- Cancel anytime
- Available as PDF
- Read on any device
- Instant download
- Own it forever
- Available as EPUB and PDF
- Compact, lightweight edition
- Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
- Free shipping worldwide - see info
- Durable hardcover edition
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Institutional subscriptions
Similar content being viewed by others
Pen Pals with Purpose: Letter Writing as Collaboration in Self-Study
Research-Informed Practice and Ethics
Creating the student writer: A study of writing identities in non-academic senior English classes
Dhumbah Goorowa , means ‘commitment to share’, in Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung , the language groups of the peoples of the eastern Kulin Nation. Bundyi Girri is Wiradjuri . Bundyi poses the question; asking for something to be shared—shared with me/us? Girri means futures.
This is a significant change as it acknowledges the untrue myths that have been generated around colonisation and the national Anglo-Australian narrative. In addition, it specifically acknowledges the unchanged sovereignty that the First Nations never relinquished. This is a key driver within the Bundyi Girri process.
Arbon, V. (2008). Arlathirnda Ngurkarnda Ityirnda being-knowing-doing: De-colonising indigenous tertiary education . Teneriffe: Post Pressed.
Google Scholar
Bell, D. (1987). And we are not saved: The elusive quest for radical justice . New York: Basic Books.
Bell, D. (1993). Faces at the bottom of the well . New York: Basic Books.
Bessarab, D., & Ng’andu, B. (2010). Yarning about yarning as a legitimate method in indigenous research. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 3 (1), 37–50.
Article Google Scholar
Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste (R. Nice, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1986). The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education (pp. 241–258). Westport: Greenwood.
Bourdieu, P., & Passeron, J. (1991). Reproduction in education, society and culture (2nd ed.) (R. Nice, Trans.). Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications.
Donald, D. (2012). Forts, colonial frontier logics, and aboriginal-Canadian relations: Imagining decolonising educational Philosophies of education. In A. Abdi (Ed.), Decolonising Philosophies of education (pp. 91–111). Amsterdam: Sense Publishers.
Chapter Google Scholar
Freire, P. (1970). Padagogy of the oppressed (M. Ramos, Trans.). London: Penguin Books.
Geia, L., Hayes, B., & Usher, K. (2013). Yarning/aboriginal storytelling: Towards an understanding of an indigenous perspective and its implications for research practice. Contemporary Nurse, 46 (1), 13–17.
Gomez, L. (2004). A tale of two genres: On the real and ideal links between law and society and critical race theory. In A. Sarat (Ed.), The blackwell companion to law and society (pp. 453–470). Carlton: Blackwell Publishing.
Keating, P. (2015). Australia through aboriginal eyes: The only way to understand our land. In Address delivered in Sydney to mark the 23rd anniversary of his Redfern Park speech.
Moodie, N. (2014). The dark side of the force: The downside of social capital and indigenous higher education. Canberra: Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2004). Whiteness, epistemology and indigenous representation. In A. Moreton-Robinson (Ed.), Whitening race: Essays in social and cultural criticism (pp. 75–88). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority. (2020, January 1). Yarning circles . Retrieved February 18, 2020, from https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/about/k-12-policies/aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-perspectives/resources/yarning-circles .
Rigney, L. (1999). Internationalization of an indigenous anticolonial cultural critique of research methodologies: A guide to indigenist research methodology and its principles. Wicazo Sa Review, 14 (2), 109–121.
RMIT University. (2016). Reconciliation action plan 2016–2019 . Melbourne: RMIT University.
RMIT University. (2019). Dhumbah Goorowa: Reconciliation plan 2019–2020 . Melbourne: RMIT University.
RMIT University. (2019b, January 31). Bundyi Girri . Retrieved February 17, 2020, from https://www.rmit.edu.au/media-objects/multimedia/video/staff-site/bundyi-girri#collapseOne .
Said, E. (2003). Orientalism . London: Penguin Books.
Shulman, L. (2005a). Signature pedagogies in the professions. Daedalus, 134 (3), 52–59.
Shulman, L. (2005b). Pedagogies of uncertainty. Liberal Education, 91 (2), 18–25.
Tuck, E., & Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2013). Curriculum, replacement and setter futurity. Journal of Curriculum Theorising, 29 (1), 72–89.
Williams, R. (1997). Vampires anonymous and critical race practice. Michigan Law Review, 95, 741–765.
World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education. (1999). The Coolangatta statement on indigenous rights in education. In World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education (pp. 1–20). Hilo, Hawai’i: WIPCE.
Yunkaporta, T. (2009). Aboriginal pedagogies at the cultural interface Ph.D. dissertation . Townsville: James Cook University.
Download references
Author information
Authors and affiliations.
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Cathy Brigden, Al Fricker, Richard Johnson & Andrea Chester
You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar
Corresponding author
Correspondence to Cathy Brigden .
Editor information
Editors and affiliations.
RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Tricia McLaughlin
Andrea Chester
Belinda Kennedy
Sherman Young
Rights and permissions
Reprints and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Brigden, C., Fricker, A., Johnson, R., Chester, A. (2020). Speaking Together: Reflections on Reconciliation, Yarning Circles, and Signature Pedagogies. In: McLaughlin, T., Chester, A., Kennedy, B., Young, S. (eds) Tertiary Education in a Time of Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5883-2_11
Download citation
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5883-2_11
Published : 17 June 2020
Publisher Name : Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN : 978-981-15-5882-5
Online ISBN : 978-981-15-5883-2
eBook Packages : Education Education (R0)
Share this chapter
Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:
Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article.
Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative
- Publish with us
Policies and ethics
- Find a journal
- Track your research
- Clearinghouse Publications
- Programs and Projects
- Research centres
Final Report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
Resources September,2023
The Final Report was tabled by government in the Australian Parliament on 29 September 2023. The Royal Commission has made 222 recommendations on how to improve laws, policies, structures and […]
Australian Government progress update on the Disability Royal Commission
The Australian Government released a Progress Update on its consideration of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Disability Royal Commission) final report. The […]
COVID-19 Criminalisation In NSW: A ‘Law and Order’ Response to a Public Health Crisis?
Resources November,2022
During a three-month period in 2021 (July-September) financial penalties totalling $45,900,180 were imposed on NSW residents by NSW Police for alleged breaches of Ministerial orders made pursuant to the Public […]
Yarning about yarning: A literature review on the use of justice yarning circles in Australia
Resources October ,2022
This article presents a select literature review on evaluations of yarning circles with Indigenous adults in the Australian criminal justice system, in both community and prison contexts. It looks at […]
Indigenous and Restorative Justice Approaches
Resources July ,2022
Justice Canada, in collaboration with the Indigenous and Restorative Justice Subcommittee of the Federal Provincial Territorial (FPT) Restorative Justice Working Group (RJWG), hosted a virtual panel discussion on February 15, […]
Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System: Causes and Responses
Resources December,2019
This literature review addresses the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian criminal justice system. It examines the extent of overrepresentation, its underlying causes, and some initiatives taken to address […]
Western Australian Penal Culture and Indigenous Over Representation: Evaluating 25 years of law, policy and practice
Resources January,2018
Imprisonment rates in WA are above the national average, have increased by 14% between 2015 and 2016, and Indigenous women are the fastest growing group within the remand system. Imprisonment […]
“The Things Which Must Be Done…”: Aboriginal incarceration: the urgent need for Aboriginal community solutions
Resources August,2016
This is an edited version of the Hon. Bob Debus’ Society of Labor Lawyers Annual lecture in memory of Frank Walker. In it, Mr Debus reflects on changes in the […]
Indigenous Justice Agreements
Publications
This paper provides an overview and analysis of the Indigenous Justice Agreements (IJAs) introduced by Australian states and territories, and examines whether strategic planning on Indigenous justice issues is improving […]
Reducing the unintended impact of fines
This paper reports on the disproportionate impacts of the fines enforcements system on Indigenous people, and the efforts of justice agencies to avoid them. Innovations include outreach and education activities […]
IMAGES
VIDEO
COMMENTS
This literature review has examined the available research we were able to locate on yarning circles that operate in Australia in the justice context, both in the community and in prison, as well as Indigenous justice programs more generally that may be of relevance, and addressing the specific needs of women.
The ACT Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACS) has developed and is implementing the Yarning Circles for Justice (YCJ) program, which operates a post-prison program, as well an in-prison yarning circle program. As set out in the ACT Government's information paper about yarning circles and other relevant programs (JACS 2020), YCJ was designed, in partnership with the local Aboriginal ...
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context. / Taylor, Helen; Bartels, Lorana; Crowe, Maddison et al. ... TY - GEN. T1 - Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context. AU - Taylor, Helen. AU - Bartels, Lorana. AU - Crowe, Maddison. AU - Marshall, Virginia. PY - 2021. Y1 - 2021. M3 - Other contribution ...
Taylor, H, Bartels, L, Crowe, M et al. 2021, 'Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context'. Year 2021. ANU Authors. Dr Helen Taylor ... M et al. 2021, 'Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context'. Year 2021. ANU Authors. Dr Helen Taylor; Professor Lorana Bartels; Dr Virginia Marshall; Updated: 05 ...
Yarning circles are used in a variety and contexts and settings. This article presents a select literature review on evaluations of yarning circles with Indigenous1 adults in the Australian criminal justice system, in both community and prison contexts. We also include other relevant programs that contain elements of yarning.
About Yarning circles: A guide for participants. ... and related research issues: A review of the literature. Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health. Google Scholar. ... Overrepresentation of Indigenous youth in Canada's Criminal Justice System: Perspectives of Indigenous young people.
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context Citation Taylor, H, Bartels, L, Crowe, M et al. 2021, 'Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context'.
This article presents a select literature review on evaluations of yarning circles with Indigenous adults in the Australian criminal justice system, in both community and prison contexts. It looks at the role of the yarning circle and the importance of cultural connection and healing in providing positive outcomes.
As part of this Collaboration, the CSRM willconduct a literature review (research report) examining the empirical evidence base onbest practice for the use of yarning circles to reduce offending and interaction with thejustice system. Status: Finished: Effective start/end date: 17/11/21 → 17/12/21: View all. View less.
Women's Yarning Circles aspire to create an Indigenous-centred space outside of court proceedings where defendants and Community Justice Group members of the same gender can build a rapport. Gender-specific bail programs aim to recognise the intricacies of an Indigenous woman's intersectional identity and the diverse needs of each defendant ...
YARNING AS PROTECTED SPACE: principles and protocols
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context. 15 Oct 2022. Helen W. Taylor, Lorana Bartels, Maddison Crowe, Virginia Marshall. Centre for Social Research and Methods. This report presents a select literature review on yarning circles within the justice system, to provide insight into the unique cultural elements of yarning ...
Yarning about yarning: A literature review on the use of justice yarning circles in Australia. ... This article presents a select literature review on evaluations of yarning circles with Indigenous adults in the Australian criminal justice system, in both community and prison contexts. It looks at […]
54) In this chapter, we have provided examples of how Yarning Circles have been used across disciplines, with students and staff and we start to build an argument that the Yarning Circle offers a signature pedagogy. The reconciliation context of our university suggests that this is an appropriate time for its adoption.
For example, a yarning circle would look very different when engaging with non-Indigenous people as opposed to a yarning circle that was being conducted within a First Nations community context. There are also several different types of yarning circles, including social, collaborative, research topic, and therapeutic yarning (Bessarab & Ng ...
The gathering was a meeting of online and offline worlds; it was the productive conjunction of a more traditional form of social practice - in this case a yarning circle - and newer forms of political activism through social media. In this article, we explore the political work of yarning circles in the context of Indigenous online activism.
This article presents a select literature review on evaluations of yarning circles with Indigenous adults in the Australian criminal justice system, in both community and prison contexts. It looks at […]
The Yarning Circle content is discussed below in the section entitled "Collective Narratives: The Visual Documentation of the Symposium Yarning Circles". Although Yarning Circles are commonly documented through the medium of film and/or photography, the students chose to document the events using the written word and symbols.
The superficial reporting on Yarning methods and skill suggests potential cultural appropriation as when dominant cultures, including institutions, use objects and practices "from another culture without thorough research, and remain ignorant of the cultural context, cultural appropriation takes place" (Han, 2019, p. 9).
Literature review on yarning circles in a criminal justice context. 15 Oct 2022. Helen W. Taylor, Lorana Bartels, Maddison Crowe, Virginia Marshall. Centre for Social Research and Methods. This report presents a select literature review on yarning circles within the justice system, to provide insight into the unique cultural elements of yarning ...
The article opens with an account of a live enactment of yarning circles with elementary students in a mainstream classroom in Australia. It explains the purpose and origin of yarning circles in Indigenous communities, and provides steps for establishing and implementing the practice in classrooms.