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a| 9781032176390 (pbk)

z| 9780367261108 (hbk)

z| 9780429291517 (ebook)

a| eng

a| C 282.8 q| DE-Y10 2| mpilcs

a| Baidawi, Susan.

a| "Crossover" Children in the youth justice and child protection systems / c| By Susan Baidawi, Rosemary Sheehan.

a| London ; a| New York : b| Routledge, c| 2021.

a| 160 p. : b| ill.

a| Routledge frontiers of criminal justice

a| Includes bibliographical references and index

a| • Introduction • 1 Child protection and youth offending: a cross-national concern • 2 Government and policy developments related to crossover children • 3 The characteristics and pathways of crossover children: the study explained • 4 Court records: the profile of "crossover kids" • 5 Crossover kids: professionals’ perspectives on offending and desistance • 6 Culture and Indigeneity: risk and responses for Indigenous crossover children • 7 The nature and contexts of offending among crossover children • 8 Crossover children: where criminogenic risk meets systemic disadvantage • 9 Disrupting the pipeline: decriminalising child protection-involved youth

a| "Crossover" Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems explores the outcomes faced by the group of children who experience involvement with both child protection and youth justice systems across several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Situated against a backdrop of international evidence and grounded in a two-year study with the Children’s Court in Victoria, Australia, this book presents a cohesive picture of the backgrounds, characteristics, and pathways traversed by crossover children. It presents statistical data from 300 crossover Children’s Court case files, alongside the expert evidence of 82 professionals, to generate a comprehensive picture of the lives of crossover children, and the individual and systemic challenges that they face. The book investigates the crucial question of why some children involved with child welfare systems experience particularly poor criminal justice outcomes, demonstrating how the convergence of cumulative childhood adversity, complex support needs, and systemic disadvantage produces acutely damaging outcomes for some crossover youth. It outlines the implications of the study, including how these findings might shape diversion and differential justice system responses to child protection-involved youth, and the innovative approaches adopted internationally to avert the care to custody pathway.

a| Sheehan, Rosemary.

a| Routledge frontiers of criminal justice