Children, Care and Crime: Trauma and Transformation

The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction (New South Wales), focusing on residential care, policing, the provision of legal services and interactions in the Children’s Court.

While the majority of children in care do not have contact with the criminal justice system, this book explores why those with care experience, and Indigenous ch...