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27 J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 63 (2000)
Pathways to Prison: Life Histories of Former Clients of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems

handle is hein.journals/jrlsasw27 and id is 463 raw text is: Pathways to Prison: Life Histories of Former Clients of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems STEPHEN A. KAPP University of Kansas School of Social Welfare This study examines the relationship between child maltreatment and future offending from the viewpoint of former clients. Imprisoned adults describe their experiences in child welfare and juvenile justice system services. Specifically, those placed out of the home originally into the child welfare system have a different perspective on their path to prison than those placed into the juvenile justice system as delinquents. The study contributes to the literature by examining the relationship between the services children receive in the child welfare system as well as the juvenile justice system and their imprisonment as adults from a former service recipient's point of view. One of the primary goals of the child welfare system is to provide a safe alternative for abused and neglected children to grow and develop. Unfortunately, the children placed in that system often end up as recipients of juvenile justice services for committing illegal acts later in their youth. In some cases, these individuals continue to offend and are eventually imprisoned as adults. This paper describes a research project designed to explore the relationship between child welfare and juvenile justice services and eventual adult imprisonment. Unlike much of the previous research assessing the link between maltreatment and il- legal behavior, as both a juvenile and an adult, this project is based on the impressions of former clients of these service systems. In the context of life history interviews, former service recipients, currently incarcerated as adults, provide alternative explanations for their imprisonment based on whether their legal and service Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, September, 2000, Volume XXVII, Number 3

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