Decolonising Criminology by Harry Blagg & Thalia Anthony

Author:Harry Blagg & Thalia Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137532473
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Fear, Loneliness and Trauma: The Prisons Without and Within

Aboriginal children who had been forcibly taken into state care (residential and foster care) and away from their parents, since the Northern Territory Intervention, told the Royal Commission stories about their fear, loneliness and trauma. They were taken far from family and Country where they were not able to receive visits or go home (CJ 2017). Siblings were usually separated, and children were given no explanation or warning about the removal and separation (DB 2017; AI 2017a, b; DM 2017). Some children were moved around to over 20 state care placements (DM 2017). One Aboriginal child explained the feelings of removal: “my heart was just crashing to pieces” (DG 2017b). Another young person, DB (2017, 2), said,

I was scared and crying and I knew I was being taken away from Mum and Dad. It was a terrible day and the worst experience of my life.

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