Screen LibraryCriminalizing children : welfare and the state in Australia /
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. McCallum trac...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in law and society
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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. 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. |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 305 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781845656676 1845656679 |
| Index Number: | HV802 |
| CLC: | D761.185 |
| Call Number: | D761.185/M122 |
| 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. |