Social Scientific Research - W1

Group Task

Adelaide Youth Training Centre

• some kids rather over residential care

Residential care

• policies aren’t being ment

• over-policing creates scared kids

Aim of Article:

To showcase how the residential care system does not suit kids who come from

Knowledge Claims - where someone has made a statement about a pattern in society or trend that is affecting a group of people

→ Primary sources (children who were in care homes reflecting upon experience)

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“We are manufacturing criminals'

According to legal youth justice experts Madaline Anderson and Brittany Armstrong, repeated police call-outs in such scenarios make children resentful of the system and can push them into more serious offending.”

Discuss how these claims are presented - how do these articles make their case, what evidence is presented, what data us used

• qualitative data, interview

“Ms Anderson from Danni Stephens Legal, who has worked in youth justice for nearly 10 years, said roughly 85 per cent of children facing the Youth Court were from some form of state care.”

What are the potential consequences (intended or unintened) or impacts of the article?

• assumptions are strengthened about how kids in care are seen as deviants and criminals