Can Foster Care Interventions Diminish Justice System Inequality?
Can Foster Care Interventions Diminish Justice System Inequality?
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寄养干预措施可以减少司法系统的不平等吗？
DOI：
10.1353/foc.2018.0002
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发表时间：
2018
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通讯作者：
Christopher Wildeman
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作者：
Y. Yi;Christopher Wildeman
Youngmin Yi和Christopher Wildeman写道，经历过寄养的儿童比其他人更有可能在童年和成年时接触刑事司法系统。由于有色人种儿童不成比例地经历寄养，寄养系统的改善可以减少种族/民族司法系统的不平等。然而，寄养和司法系统不平等之间的联系并没有得到应有的关注。这篇文章是迄今为止最全面的审查寄养安置如何影响儿童的刑事司法接触的风险。易和怀尔德曼审查儿童如何引起儿童保护服务（CPS）的注意，他们如何被安置在寄养，以及寄养儿童面临的风险。他们还研究了儿童福利和刑事司法系统是如何交叉的，特别关注CPS接触和寄养安置和经历中的巨大种族/民族差异。作者然后研究了可能在两个阶段减少刑事司法结果不平等的策略-在寄养安置期间，以及在儿童年龄超出系统之后（也就是说，在他们达到不再有资格留在寄养或接受护理服务的年龄之后）。它们强调了针对五个关键目标的有希望的干预措施：促进寄养安置的稳定性和持久性;扩大和改善获得药物使用治疗和精神保健服务的机会;为寄养青年提供法律的支持;为晚育青少年和年轻成年人提供就业和教育支持;支持为不再寄养的青年提供住房和保健。
Summary:Children who experience foster care, write Youngmin Yi and Christopher Wildeman, are considerably more likely than others to have contact with the criminal justice system, both during childhood and as adults. And because children of color disproportionately experience foster care, improvements to the foster care system could reduce racial/ethnic justice system inequality. Yet the link between foster care and justice system inequality hasn't received the attention it deserves. This article represents the most comprehensive review to date on how foster care placement can affect children's risk of criminal justice contact.Yi and Wildeman review how children come to the attention of Child Protective Services (CPS), how they come to be placed in foster care, and the risks that children in foster care face. They also examine how the child welfare and criminal justice systems intersect, with special attention to the large racial/ethnic disparities in both CPS contact and foster care placement and experiences.The authors then examine strategies that might reduce inequality in criminal justice outcomes at two stages—during foster care placement, and after children age out of the system (that is, after they reach the age when they're no longer eligible to stay in foster care or receive attendant services). They highlight promising interventions that target five critical objectives: the promotion of stability and permanency in foster care placements; expanded and improved access to substance use treatment and mental health care services; provision of legal support for foster youth; extension of employment and educational support for late adolescents and young adults; and supports for securing housing and health care for youth who age out of foster care.