Addressing legacies of ‘care’ and criminalisation: responding to the deaths of crossover children and young people

Rebecca Scott Bray

Chapter 12 in Research Handbook on Youth Criminology, 2025, pp 198-218 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores the attentional gap in the deaths of ‘crossover’ youth: children and young people who experience systems of ‘child protection’ and ‘youth justice’. The chapter argues that the complexity of children's ‘crossover’ experiences – and the effect of these experiences on children and young people's lives and deaths – is diluted in coronial death investigation and child death review. The chapter details the significance of legacies of ‘care’ and criminalisation in the lives of children and young people, before examining coronial death investigation and child death review processes and the extent to which these legacies are recognised. It illustrates how, paradoxically, there exists an attentional gap on the crossover experiences of children and young people at the same time that their deaths are subject to scrutiny. The corollary is that the focus on causal circumstances of death is narrowed and siloed, ‘care’ and/or ‘justice’ histories are underdiscussed, and the qualitative experiences of children and young people are silenced.

Keywords: Children; Child death review; Child protection; Coroners; Custody; Death; Youth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035300747
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