Education

Paterson-Young, Claire; Hazenberg, Richard; Bajwa-Patel, Meanu

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18422-3_6

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“…Imprisonment does not fix, heal or significantly improve the general well-being of those who are subjected to it. On the contrary, numerous studies have sufficiently demonstrated the detrimental, adverse and harmful effects of detention, especially on young people (Holman and Ziedenberg, 2006; Paterson-Young et al, 2019). An important consequence of this experienced lack of autonomy is an embedded fatalism whereby participants perceived little that was positive about their future.…”

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Being Tried and Sentenced as an Adult: Amplifying Voices of Transferred Juveniles

Jaspers¹,

Christiaens²,

Nuytiens³

2023

Youth Justice

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This article analyses the qualitative findings of doctoral research on a sample of 210 young offenders who were transferred to Adult Court in 1999, 2000 and 2001. The results give an insight into the impact of juvenile transfer on a specific subgroup of participants, now aged between 30 and 40 years, allowing a critical evaluation of their pathways into adulthood. Drawing on the life stories of 17 young adults from a cohort of transferred juveniles who were still in prison at the time, we focus on their lived experiences of the decision to transfer them from the juvenile justice system and its impact on their lives. The findings support the idea that transfer, and its experienced ‘collateral’ effects, contributes to an escalating trajectory of judicial contacts; a view echoed by the transferred participants themselves. We present and discuss three main findings that offer important insights to extend the understandings of patterns of reoffending and involvement in the criminal justice system: (1) the impact of the first detention in an adult prison (as a consequence of the juvenile transfer), (2) a fatalistic attitude towards the future and (3) the unanticipated impact of family on views on re-offending.

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confidence: 99%