From Care to Custody: Young Women in Out-of-Home Care in the Criminal Justice System

Child maltreatment and criminal convictions in youth: The role of gender, ethnicity and placement experiences in an Australian population

“…In support of this suggestion, McFarlane (2010) found that property damage in care homes was one of the most common reasons that young people in OHC faced court. Furthermore, young people in OHC have been shown to experience particular difficulty in meeting bail and order conditions, creating a situation where breaches and an ongoing cycle of correctional responses are likely (Sprott & Myers, 2011).…”

‘We Don't do Measure and Quotes’: How Agency Responses Criminalise and Endanger the Safety of Children Missing in Care in New South Wales, Australia

“…Carrington () argued that the child welfare and criminal justice institutions were engaged in ‘a highly selective delinquency manufacturing process … primarily designed to save “good” children from “bad” children’ (p.1). Just as the offending histories of women prisoners raises questions about ‘the relationships between classes, racism, genders and imprisonment’ (Carlen and Worrall , p.17), so, too, moral judgments about the alleged promiscuity of girls in OOHC fuelled perceptions they were ‘bad’ or ‘deviant' and led to the criminalisation of girls’ behaviour (McFarlane ). Girls subsequently endured severe sanctions, including detention, as retribution for their nonconformist behaviour.…”

Australia's Children's Courts Today and Tomorrow

“…(Magistrate 3) These views are re fl ected in the recent Australian research literature McFarlane 2010 ;Wood 2008 ) . A few years later we start to see them appearing in the criminal jurisdiction….…”