Adverse childhood experiences and trauma among young people supervised by Youth Justice
Dr Catia Malvaso1, Prof Andrew Day, A/Prof Jesse Cale, Prof Paul Delfabbro, Ms Louisa Hackett, Prof Stuart Ross
1The University Of Adelaide
This research is concerned with the prevalence and experience of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in a representative sample of young people under Youth Justice supervision in South Australia. Data were collected from a battery of self-report assessments administered to 184 young people, which were subsequently linked to administrative records. The analysis showed that not only was the prevalence of ACEs particularly high in this population (89% experienced a combination of maltreatment and household dysfunction), but so too was trauma symptomatology, substance use, and internalising and externalising behaviours (with more than two thirds of young people scoring in the clinical ranges on each of these measures). Using latent class analysis, four distinct subgroups of young people were identified according to different patterns of ACEs experienced. These findings offer empirical evidence for Youth Justice policymakers and practitioners to develop new ways of working with justice-involved young people that take account of key developmental experiences of adversity.
Biography:
Dr Catia Malvaso is research fellow who sits across the Schools of Psychology and Public Health at the University of Adelaide. Her position is funded through an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Catia’s program of research focuses on better understanding pathways from childhood adversity to youth and adult offending behaviour with a focus on identifying opportunities for prevention. She was awarded the 2020 Early Career Researcher Prize from the Developmental and Life Course Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology.
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- A closed mouth catches no flies: How tertiary prevention of sexual violence and abuse can inform primary and secondary prevention
- Bail & Illusions of Justice
- Before we get to court
- Border Policing and Migration
- Border violences and control
- Borders & Risk
- Carceral Borders
- Changes in ‘youth crime’ – perceptions and realities
- Changing perspectives on ‘youth’ and young people
- Children & young people in custody
- Children in state care
- Coercive Control
- Communication underpins access to justice
- Community
- Concurrent Panel
- Consequences of Invasion
- Corrections and Penology
- Courts and Sentencing
- Crime and Media
- Crime and the City
- Crime in the Pacific
- Crime Management
- Crime Prevention
- Cultural Criminology
- Curabitur acconvallis
- Cybercrime
- Cybercrime victimisation
- Development & Prevention of Youth Crime & ASB
- Digital Criminology
- Digital innovations in Offending and Control
- Encountering Crime in Everyday Publics
- Encounters with Crime and Justice in the Pacific Islands
- Ethics & Integrity: Police Training
- Everyday experiences of the internal border
- Expanding Criminological Frames: Global/Local
- Extending Punishment
- Family and Intimate Partner Violence
- Family Violence
- Forensic Criminology
- Gender and Crime
- Gender-based Crime in a Digital Age
- Getting the evidence: Police interviewing practices
- GPS geospatial tools and surveillance
- Green criminology
- Hidden punishment – fines and infringement notices
- Highlighting harm and resisting incarceration
- Illicit Drugs & Alcohol
- Immigration & Human Rights
- Improving prison practices
- Indigenous Criminology
- Inflicting Trauma
- Informing sentencing practice and policy
- Innovation in sentencing
- Innovative Data & Methodology
- Innovative Justice
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- Inside and Outside the Prison
- Institutional Abuse
- Institutions of Harm and Victimisation
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- Intelligence & Organised Crime
- International dimension in sentencing
- Intimate Partner violence risk and security: Securing women's lives in a global world
- Invisible powers to punish
- Judicial Supervision: Evidence current practice and implications for mainstream court settings
- Keynote Presentation
- Models
- Modern Slavery in Australia: exploring the limits & challenges of law
- National and international focus
- New & Old Constructs of Justice
- NGOs and Crime
- Non-governmental and voluntary sector organisations in criminal justice and drug policy processes
- Nunc idorcisit amet jus
- Oral Presentation
- Panel Session
- PANEL – Parental and close family incarceration
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- PECRC Oral
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- Plenary Keynote
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- Police Investigations
- Police Legitimacy
- Policing
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- Policing Culture
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- Policing mental illness
- Policing Systems
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- Restorative justice and diversion of young people
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- Round Table
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- Sentencing
- Sex bodies violence
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- Southern and comparative criminology
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- State Crime and Structural Justice
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- Sub-Plenary Panel
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- Surveillance
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- Terrorism Crime Space and Place
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- Vulnerable People and Human Rights
- White Collar Crime
- Women As Victims
- Working to support children and families of prisoners
- Working with young people reducing reoffending
- Wrongful Conviction
- Young people and violence victims and perpetrators
- Young People Crime and Justice
- “Police education: new models new approaches and emerging trends”