[AJHN] Lindsay Pearce & A/Prof Jess Heerde - "They lock us up for trying to survive"

Описание: Lindsay Pearce and A/Prof Jess Heerde present on sociological factors influencing police contact among adolescents and young adults experiencing homelessness.

Presentation summary:
Adolescents and young adults experiencing homelessness are disproportionately exposed to police and criminal justice contact at a critical stage of development, with potential long-term consequences for health, wellbeing, and life trajectories. Despite this, limited research has examined what drives police contact in this population or how these encounters are shaped by broader social and structural contexts.

Drawing on qualitative interviews with 53 young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Melbourne, this presentation explores how and why young people experiencing homelessness encounter police. Using a socioecological lens, they examine influences across individual, interpersonal, community, and systems levels.

Speakers:
Lindsay Pearce
Research Fellow with the Justice Health Group, Curtin University, and the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Lindsay completed her Master of Public Health in 2017 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research focusses on the health and health care experiences of people with intersecting experiences of social exclusion, including substance dependence, homelessness, and criminal justice system contact. Lindsay is interested in using both quantitative and qualitative research methods to elucidate the experiences of these groups to drive evidence-informed system change and advocacy.

Associate Professor Jess Heerde
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is Program Lead of a multi-disciplinary research program examining factors that define pathways to and out of homelessness for children and adolescents, as well as assessing health and mortality following contact with the homelessness service system in Australia. She is the Group Leader of the Socially Excluded Adolescents Theme at the Centre for Adolescent Health. As Program and Group Lead, Jess holds numerous leadership and service roles where she contributes to the field of homelessness research, practice and policy, nationally and internationally.

Chair:
Sarah Pellicano
Research Associate, Justice Health Group, enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Title card
0:05 Introduction & overlapping adversities
4:50 Socioecological model: Introduction
7:11 Socioecological model: Homelessness
7:55 Study overview
16:36 Overview of findings
18:00 Findings from a socioecological context
36:44 Key takeaways & implications
39:50 Q&A
40:55 Reflections from Michael Beilken, Victoria Police (co-Author)
48:20 Q&A
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