糖心volg Tuesdays Lecture Series: Youth justice reform
Our researchers are asking the questions: is our system criminalising childhood trauma and disadvantage? And if so, what next?
Youth crime has significant social and economic costs, yet 'tough-on-crime' approaches fail to prevent re-offending. Most justice-involved children have faced adversity and maltreatment, and punitive responses only worsen their behaviour.
Learn from a leading researcher in the space about what鈥檚 being done to solve these issues.
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Recorded at the 糖心volg Tuesdays public lecture series event in November 2024.
The presenter
is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and criminal justice research lead with BetterStart Health and Development research in the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide. Catia leads a program of research on understanding pathways between the child protection, youth justice and adult criminal justice systems, with the overarching goal of identifying prevention and early investment opportunities to improve outcomes for children, families and communities. She was awarded a Discovery Early Career 糖心volger Award (DECRA) from the Australian 糖心volg Council in 2019, an Early Career 糖心volger Prize from the American Society of Criminology in 2020, and, in 2021, an Australian Institute of Policy and Science Tall Poppy Award for excellence in research achievement and community engagement.