Criminalizing children : welfare and the state in Australia / David McCallum, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCallum, David, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--Australia--History.

Child welfare.

Juvenile delinquents--Australia--History.

Juvenile delinquents.

Children--Australia--Social conditions.

Children.

Children, Aboriginal Australian--Government policy--History.

Children, Aboriginal Australian.

Government policy.

History.

Social conditions.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Incarceration of children is rising rapidly throughout of Australia, with indigenous children most at risk of imprisonment. Indigenous and non-indigenous children have been subject to detention in both welfare and justice systems in Australian states and territories since colonization. Countless governments and human rights enquiries have attempted to address the problem of the increasing criminalization of children, with little success. David McCallum traces the history of 'problem children' over several decades, demonstrating that the categories of neglected and offending children are both linked to similar kinds of governing. Institutions and encampments have historically played a significant role in contributing to the social problems of today. This book also takes a theoretical perspective, tracking parallel developments within the human sciences of childhood and theories of race. Applying a social theoretical analysis of these events and the changing rationalities of governing, McCallum challenges our assumptions about how law and governance of children leads to their criminalization and incarceration.

Contents:

Child welfare and the Australian state: an introduction

Knowing the 'neglected' aboriginal child

Neglected and criminal children

Science, race and separations

Unstable categories: children in welfare and justice in the early twentieth century

The mission station as a correctional institution

From mental defectives to the psychology of the family

The discovery of the aboriginal child

Government and family.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316535028

Access Restriction:

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