What is the incidence of criminal behaviour in foster children; what in the view of foster carers causes these behaviours; and what in the view of foster carers can be done to reduce criminal behaviour?

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Parsons, Lauren
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2013Type
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Cardiff Metropolitan University
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This study had three major goals: (1) to discover the incidence of criminal behaviour
in children within foster care, (2) what causes these criminal behaviours (in the view
of foster carer), and finally (3) what can be done to reduce these behaviours? This
project is from a qualitative point of view but is also using quantitative data (e.g.
gender, age, the length of time of being a foster carer). By using the snowballing
sample, results will be gathered from questionnaires given to foster carers from
different agencies, followed by a focus group. Views, experiences and opinions from
the foster carer will be gathered then analysed and compared. The hypothesis of this
study was to find that foster children are more likely to show criminal behaviours than
children who have grown up with their own biological parents due to the many rules
and policies that foster carers must follow. However different to the suggested
results, findings show that foster carers were more sympathetic and understanding
towards foster children and understand why some children might show delinquent
behaviour. Also some participants believe that it does not matter whether the child
grew up in care or with their birth parents, wrong is wrong no matter who you are.
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BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care
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