Increasing calls for ‘nothing about us without us’ envision marginalized people as valuable and necessary contributors to policies and practices affecting them. In this paper, we examine what this type of inclusion feels like for criminalized people who share their lived experiences in penal voluntary sector organizations. Focus groups conducted in England and Scotland illustrated how this work was experienced as both safe, inclusionary and rewarding and exclusionary, shame-provoking and precarious. We highlight how these tensions of ‘user involvement’ impact criminalized individuals and compound wider inequalities within this sector. The individual, emotional and structural implications of activating lived experience, therefore, require careful consideration. We consider how the penal voluntary sector might more meaningfully and supportively engage criminalized individuals in service design and delivery. These considerations are significant for broader criminal justice and social service provision seeking to meaningfully involve those with lived experience.

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这就是它的感觉：激活刑事志愿部门的生活经验

越来越多的呼吁“没有我们就没有我们”将边缘化的人视为影响他们的政策和实践的有价值和必要的贡献者。在本文中，我们研究了这种类型的包容对于分享他们在刑事志愿部门组织中的生活经历的刑事犯罪者的感受。在英格兰和苏格兰进行的焦点小组说明了这项工作是如何被体验为既安全、包容又有益和排斥、令人羞耻和不稳定的。我们强调“用户参与”的这些紧张局势如何影响被刑事定罪的个人并加剧该部门内更广泛的不平等。因此，激活生活体验对个人、情感和结构的影响需要仔细考虑。我们考虑刑事志愿部门如何更有意义和支持性地让被刑事定罪的个人参与服务设计和提供。这些考虑对于寻求有意义地让有生活经验的人参与的更广泛的刑事司法和社会服务提供具有重要意义。