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Care-criminalisation: The involvement of children in out-of-home care in the New South Wales criminal justice system.
- Source :
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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Sage Publications Ltd.) . Sep2018, Vol. 51 Issue 3, p412-433. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This article discusses the involvement in the New South Wales criminal justice system of a cohort of children in out-of-home care. The paper reports the findings of a four-year research project that investigated the relationship between the child welfare and justice systems as experienced by a cohort of children in the New South Wales Children's Court criminal jurisdiction. Analysis of 160 case files identified that children in out-of-home care appeared before the Children's Court on criminal charges at disproportionate rates compared to children who were not in out-of-home care. The out-of-home care cohort had a different and negative experience of the justice system, entering it at a significantly younger age and being more likely to experience custodial remand, than children who had not been in out-ofhome care. While both cohorts shared many of the risk factors common to young offenders appearing before the Children's Court, the out-of-home care cohort experienced significant additional disadvantage within the care environment ('care-criminalisation'), such that living arrangements designed to protect them from harm instead created the environment for offending. The paper concludes by arguing that a paucity of research exists regarding the drivers and dynamics of care-criminalisation and that more research is needed to explore the criminogenic impacts of a childhood spent in out-of-home care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CHILD welfare
*CRIMINAL justice system
*FOSTER home care
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00048658
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Sage Publications Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131170702
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865817723954