Understanding how intersectional advantage and disadvantage affects criminal career trajectories in Queensland, Australia: a multilevel approach
Matthews, McVie and collaborators at Queensland University, Australia
Research questions:
How does the association between adult conviction trajectories and early youth justice sanction vary by sex and indigenous status?
How does the association between adult conviction trajectories and childhood trauma vary by sex and indigenous status?
Type(s) of inequality and how inequality is defined:
Inequality is defined as the difference in estimated probability of convictions class membership between non-indigenous men, non-indigenous women, indigenous men and indigenous women.
Approach or method used:
Inequality can affect people of all ages; however, there are some stages of the life-course at which inequality can have a particularly significant impact. Children and young people are often more affected by, and subject to, inequality than adults and they are often the least able to defend themselves against it. What is more, the negative impact of inequalities experienced in childhood can have a long term effect across the life-course, often being perpetuated and exacerbated such that their life chances are significantly reduced. Our research examines age inequality in a range of contexts, including the impact of inequality in early life and changes in age inequality over time.
Our current active research projects on spatial inequalities are listed below (these link closely with our research on Socio-Economic, Gender, Education and Justice inequalities).