I’m Trying to Save My Family: Parent Experiences of Child Criminal Exploitation

Maxwell, Nina

doi:10.1177/14732254221122559

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“…Even where parents indicated a willingness to participate, the distressing nature of exploitation meant they cancelled co-design sessions. To address recruitment challenges and in consultation with the study advisory group it was decided that recruitment would be extended to England (for further details, see Maxwell, 2023). This led to the recruitment of 15 parents, eight of whom were living in Wales and seven were living in England.…”

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I am not going to lie; some people do not even want to talk: Co‐design with vulnerable groups affected by child criminal exploitation

Maxwell,

Corliss

2024

Children & Society

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Co‐production values lived experience as it promotes individuals as assets and offers insight where little is known about a problem. This paper critically considers the pragmatic approach to co‐design adopted in Wales with young people and parents affected by child criminal exploitation during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It suggests that combining co‐design with data collection facilitated the recruitment, sensitisation and facilitation of vulnerable groups. By placing informed consent at the forefront of co‐design, young people and parents decided how they wanted their voices heard. Further, combining data gathering with co‐design contextualised solution development within their lived experiences. However, embedding these solutions into policy and practice remains subject to existing power imbalances.

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I am not going to lie; some people do not even want to talk: Co‐design with vulnerable groups affected by child criminal exploitation

Maxwell,

Corliss

2024

Children & Society

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“…Young people who are excluded from mainstream school and placed in PRUs are more likely to drop out of education, employment or training at 16 (Wilcock, 2020). And for these young people there is an increased risk of loneliness, homelessness, engagement in criminal activity, and suicide (Gill et al, 2017;Maxwell et al, 2019;Samaritans Cymru, 2019). At the same time, young people with experience of the care system have historically been over-represented in PRUs (Munn & Lloyd, 2005).…”

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Leaving a Pupil Referral Unit in Wales: Care Experienced Young People and their Post-16 Transitions

Smith

2023

International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions

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Care experienced young people are more likely to leave compulsory schooling with fewer qualifications than their non-care experienced peers. They continue to be over-represented in school exclusion figures and are more likely to attend alternative provision such as pupil referral units (PRUs). Transitions at 16 can be difficult, particularly when support systems are lost. As such, these young people are at greater risk of homelessness, criminality and suicide, on leaving compulsory education. The risks associated with these transitions are heightened even more for those leaving alternative provision. Exploring what factors can support the transitions of PRU learners into post-16 destinations is an important line of enquiry. This article discusses qualitative findings from the first year of a three-year mixed methods study involving research with 14 PRU learners. It explores young people's reflections on their educational journeys so far and their expectations for life after the PRU. The findings highlight how experiences of school exclusion can impact negatively on future trajectories. Despite this, the participants were still able to foresee and describe ambitious plans, supported in part by caring PRU professionals and positive role models in their lives. The article concludes by considering the factors that may facilitate or create barriers to sustainable transitions for this cohort of young people, as they begin to leave the PRUs.

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Role of cognition in mediating parental knowledge and support as precipitants of early adolescent delinquency escalation: partial replication and extension

Walters

2024

JCRPP

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether cognitive factors mediate the relationship between parental knowledge/support and delinquency escalation. Design/methodology/approach Using data from early adolescent youth enrolled in the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) study, two analyses were performed. The first analysis cross-lagged parental knowledge and cognitive impulsivity as predictors of delinquency escalation and the second analysis cross-lagged parental support and moral neutralization as predictors of delinquency escalation. Findings In both analyses, the indirect effect of a change in parenting on delinquency escalation via a change in cognition attained significance, whereas the indirect effect of a change in cognition on delinquency escalation via a change in parenting did not. In neither case did the direct effect of parenting on delinquency achieve significance. Research limitations/implications This study was limited, however, by exclusive reliance on self-report measures to assess all variables in this study and the use of explicit rather than implicit measures of cognitive impulsivity and moral neutralization. Practical implications The practical implications of these results are that they point to ways in which improved parenting can lead to crime deceleration; reduced cognitive impulsivity and moral neutralization can lead to crime deceleration. Social implications These results imply that social variables like parental knowledge and support stimulate a change in cognition as part of the process by which delinquency escalates during early adolescence. Originality/value The unique contribution this study makes to the field is that it highlights the role antisocial cognition plays in mediating between social factors and delinquency as part of the crime acceleration process that often occurs in early adolescence.

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I’m Trying to Save My Family: Parent Experiences of Child Criminal Exploitation

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

I am not going to lie; some people do not even want to talk: Co‐design with vulnerable groups affected by child criminal exploitation

I am not going to lie; some people do not even want to talk: Co‐design with vulnerable groups affected by child criminal exploitation

Leaving a Pupil Referral Unit in Wales: Care Experienced Young People and their Post-16 Transitions

Role of cognition in mediating parental knowledge and support as precipitants of early adolescent delinquency escalation: partial replication and extension

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