Care-experienced and incarcerated: the perceptions of children in care about their pathways into, through and out of custody

Anne-Marie Day

Chapter 13 in Research Handbook on Youth Criminology, 2025, pp 219-236 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter draws on research by the author on care-experienced children's pathways into, through and out of custody in northern England. Interviews were conducted with 22 children who were in either foster or residential care at the point of being sentenced to custody. The research found that the children's pathways can be understood in terms of survival becoming an integral part of the identities of children in care. The research suggests that being in care exacerbated the risk that the children would become entangled in the youth justice system and, when sentenced to custody, would then experience a very disruptive and harmful deprivation of liberty and subsequent resettlement.

Keywords: Care-experienced children; Custody; Incarceration; Resettlement; Youth justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035300747
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