Research Report: Education's Role in Youth Offending and Victimization

This report examines the interrelationship between education, offending, and victimization within the youth justice system, drawing on two research journals. The first study investigates the involvement of children in out-of-home care (OOHC) within the New South Wales criminal justice system, revealing that a significant percentage of these children face criminal charges and experience negative mental and physical impacts. The second study explores the effectiveness of the youth justice system in England, Wales, and Australia, highlighting issues such as inadequate support, criminalization due to improper management, and cognitive disabilities. The report concludes that the current youth justice system has perilous dimensions and requires a holistic approach to managing young offenders and improving overall outcomes, emphasizing the need for better data collection and support systems.

RESEARCH POSTER
INTRODUCTION
Offending refers to sense of inferiority
where someone performs such offensive
task which leads to victimization, it is
driver of negative mental, physical and
behavioural reflections. The poster will
be discussing education and its
interrelationship with offending and
victimization notions. With this regard
there will be two different journal or
research papers would be taken into
consideration and on the basis on them
the notion will be examined.
Evidence base-
As the journal presented by Kath McFarlane which
is discussing care criminalization. It discusses the
involvement in New South Wales system of criminal
justice of a group of children who were set to out of
home care.
The research was carried out for four years and 160
cases were identified. On the basis of the study it was
found that the children who were given out of home
care were not much good as compares to others.
They were having some negative impacts both in
physical and mental manner. It has been a bit horrific
since out of home care was fetching some negatives to
the young offenders.
In Australia this power lies in the jurisdiction of the
state to grant alternative accommodation, in South
Wales the court is empowered to grant OOHC (out of
home care) to the children.
With the progress of time the population of OOHC is
growing exponentially, so to know about their
treatment is very prominent here. So to know more
about child welfare and criminal justice system was
examined.
So it was found that around 49.5% of the
sample were sent to OOHC who were having
criminal charges. 6% of them were not having
any prior criminal record, around 16% were not
having care group, the data is as below-
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This presentation poster was designed by FPPT.
The journal published in Youth Studies also discusses cruel
and unusual punishment. Criminalization of youth is having
its negative impacts on their mental and physical health.
The youth justice system has been accused by some
criminologist due to lower level of affectivity and suitability
at cognitive and behavioural level which is somehow making
the result drowning capacity down.
In this research the main aim was to figure out whether
the youth justice system was going well of was having need
to be reformed, since there have been such instances where it
was found young offenders was not having better treatment
and their penalty projects were also having sort of issues in
England and Wales, other four Australian states.
For fulfilment of the purpose some interviews were
carried out where the main idea has to be deciphered.
Different issues such as complex support need which was
missed to certain extent, criminalization of youth due to
improper management, cognitive disabilities etc.
There have been four critical findings of the research
which describes that there is strong need of managing young
offenders, holistic approach of their management is needed
so can enhance overall repercussions, inadequate nature of
support from community and criminalization of disadvantage
and disability.
CONCLUSION
From the report above it can be
concluded that the present youth
justice system is having some perilous
dimensions. With this regard in the
report two studies were evaluated, in
the journal the notion has been
researched with proper methodology
and at the end of the report their
outcomes had been presented.
The OOHC children were found with higher amount of trauma
and other issues, for instance the children in care had higher
instances of abuse and neglect around 53%. Their rate of mental
illness was also higher, there were a range of such aspects has
been taken into consideration.
These dimensions were abuse and neglect, death, mental health,
suicide, or any other form of self-harm, homelessness for ever,
educational issues, truancy, expulsion etc.
On the basis of the outcomes of research it would be fair to say
that OOHC children, in sample were accounting around 79
children and non OOHC were having 81.
The biggest jeopardy found, that in Australia there is no such data
record available which can reveal such aspects so can take
appropriate actions to counter it. The entire examination of child
abasement and justice system conducted into youth sample.
As international research also depicted that the OOHC is a
vulnerable system since there is strong need to go for
improvement in it. The fact is very clear that the children who are
spending their time in custody are having some negative impacts
on their body.
prior criminal record record comprises cautions only record comprises charges only no prior involvement with the justice system
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in OOHC not in OOHC
abuse
death
mental health issues
intellectual impariment
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alcohol and drug cases
homelessness
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not in education
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cohort % of OOHC % of OOCh

References
•McFarlane, K 2017, 'Care-criminalisation: The involvement of children in out-of-home
care in the New South Wales criminal justice system', Australian and New Zealand Journal
of Criminology, vol. 51 , no. 3, pp. 412 - 433.
•Baldry, E, Briggs, D, Goldson, B and Russell, S 2017, 'Cruel and unusual punishment': An
inter-jurisdictional study of the criminalisation of young people with complex support
needs', Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 21 , no. 5, pp. 636 - 652.
•Blackley, R. and Bartels, L., 2018. Sentencing and treatment of juvenile sex offenders in
Australia. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice [electronic resource], (555),
pp.1-15.