Looked after children and offending
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There have been longstanding concerns about the risk of offending for children in care. This research study investigates the characteristics and pathways of looked after children and the risk and protective factors that may reduce the risk of offending and promote resilience. It demonstrates that social care can be effective in promoting security, resilience and pro-social values, but a range of important policy and practice issues need to be addressed to help ensure that vulnerable young people in the care and youth justice systems have a positive future.
This study reports on the resilience factors that can be promoted to reduce the likelihood of offending; the features of the care and justice systems that may increase/reduce the likelihood of offending and the criminalisation of looked after children; key transitional/turning points that are opportunities for interventions to divert children in care from offending; and makes recommendations for policy and practice. It is illustrated by the narratives of young people in care.
This book is for all practitioners, managers and policy makers who are involved with looked after young people and the care and/or justice systems.
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Those working in the field will not be surprised by the findings presented here, but the authors have provided a coherent, well-structured and cogent piece of work that adds to the volume of voices calling for good legislative intentions to be translated into effective practice. They point to the need – if we are to take the rhetoric of joined-up policies seriously – to integrate youth justice policy with the welfarist intentions of the care system.
Ian Paylor, Lancaster University, UK, Journal of Social Work