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Highly vulnerable teens: a social justice imperative
Citation
Robinson, C, Highly vulnerable teens: a social justice imperative, Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 2, (2) pp. 61-74. ISSN 2204-9193 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
In 2016 -2017, the Social Action and Research Centre (SARC), Anglicare Tasmania, undertook to investigate and document why and how some teens in Tasmania come to experience extraordinary trajectories of high vulnerability from early childhood into adolescence. The research explores the life histories of a cohort of teens (aged 10 to 17 years) whose needs for care have fallen outside families, between government agencies and between non-government services. This paper introduces some of the findings of that investigation and considers both contexts of individual vulnerability and available support systems and services. It unravels the fundamental paradox that those most vulnerable - both developmentally and in terms of the layers of adversity they experience - seem to be, at best, retained and, at worst, entrenched in vulnerability. As such, young people’s experiences of high vulnerability are framed as a key social justice imperative for Tasmania.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | social justice, Tasmania youth, support services, vulnerability, homelessness, care, vulnerable teens, unaccompanied |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Urban sociology and community studies |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Community services |
Objective Field: | Homelessness and housing services |
UTAS Author: | Robinson, C (Associate Professor Catherine Robinson) |
ID Code: | 149593 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | Sociology and Criminology |
Deposited On: | 2022-04-05 |
Last Modified: | 2022-05-20 |
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