WP1 THE PATHWAYS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS INSTITUTIONS AND SERVICES
Leader: Tine K. Grimholt; Co-leader: Egil Kjerstad
Researcher: Emre Sari
To improve the quality of life of vulnerable children and adolescents encountering ICCs, WP1 will utilise
Norwegian registration data on children, young people and their families. These administrative registers
provide an exceptional opportunity for large scale longitudinal research, with a data quality that is largely
unrivalled internationally. Since most of these registers contain a personal identifier for all individuals residing
in Norway, they also allow for complex inter-linking of data. WP1 aims to examine pathways of children and
young people across institutions and services, as well as explore how these institutions impact on the lives of
young individuals over time. In investigating these dynamics WP1 also emphasises factors that might increase
risks or promote protection, including socioeconomic status, parental health status and local contextual
factors. After including these factors, WP1 also aims to investigate the mechanisms that influence later
developments in terms of criminality, substance abuse and health.
Research
Methods and data sources
- A national cohort study of children that are registered in the Norwegian Correctional Services during a oneyear period and a nested cohort from the central population register. WP1 will inter-link these data with data from the Criminality Register (CR), from the Child and Welfare Register (CWS) and the Health Care Registries (HCR) to analyse pathways of children between various ICC.
- Analyses of data from The Norwegian Patient Register (NPR), which includes information about all patients who have received or are waiting to receive treatment in specialist health service in Norway since 2008 and the Central Population Register (CPR) which contains socio-demographic data on the Norwegian population.
- Analysis of the findings of inter-linking of the above-mentioned registers with data from KPR (register of patients and users of municipal services). In this way, we can analyze the relation between the use of residential and respite service for children and the outcomes mentioned above.
Research questions
- What characterizes the pathways of children between various ICC services, across the life span from birth to young adulthood (0-25 years)?
- What characterizes the use of primary and specialist health care services and how do these patterns interact with patterns regarding ICC services?
- How do these factors predict contact with CWS and/or the criminal justice system?
