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
Summary
Does the Australian welfare system criminalise children? This book unpacks history and politics to explore the treatment of child offenders
