Children with experience of out-of-home care are criminalised at five times the rate of their peers. This webinar will present findings from two studies examining the long-term legacy of care-experience for adults who are in the criminal justice system.
Drawing on data from about 3,000 prisoners in a male prison in Wales, and 66 women in contact with the criminal justice system in Wales, this webinar will explore how the vulnerabilities associated with care-experience do not end in childhood but endure to shape the life-course of those in contact with the justice system. For women, these vulnerabilities also intersect with gendered pathways into the justice system, including domestic abuse and acquired brain injury, and dramatically elevated rates of suicide attempts.
This webinar will consider what these findings mean for children’s services and social care practice, and how early identification of neurodisability and investment in care leavers can disrupt these cycles of disadvantage.