Dragged kicking and screaming: Agency and violence for children entering secure accommodation

Lyttleton‐Smith, Jen and Bayfield, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9589-5120 2024. Dragged kicking and screaming: Agency and violence for children entering secure accommodation. Children & Society 38 (2) , pp. 317-333. 10.1111/chso.12701

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Abstract

Children entering secure accommodation, also known as ‘secure care’, are prevented from exercising free choice over most aspects of everyday life. This paper focuses on the relationship between agency and violence during transference to and early time in secure accommodation. Sharing interview extracts from 11 young people with experience of secure care as children, we explore how the routine processes of ‘suppressing’ children's agency supports the emergence of violence. We argue that the manner of transfer to secure accommodation creates a violent encounter that forces children's emotion and agency to redirect and intensify onto the self and others as further violence.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0951-0605
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 February 2023
Date of Acceptance:	26 January 2023
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2024 13:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156989

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