Alexandre Blanchet

• Ph.D.
• PostDoc Position at McGill University

This article examines two outcomes of the transition to adulthood for youth who are involved with both the child protection and juvenile justice systems, known as dual-system youth. Data from a longitudinal study conducted in Quebec between 2017 and 2021 with 1136 youth in care suggest that dual-system youth are less likely to graduate from high sc...

Au Québec, les jeunes placés sous la tutelle de la Direction de la protection de la jeunesse sont suivis par un nombre important d’intervenants, notamment en raison du roulement de personnel, mais également à cause de la structure organisationnelle de ces services. Il est probable que le nombre d’intervenants ait un impact sur la qualité des servic...

Les jeunes trans et non binaires forment une population que l’on sait à risque de vivre des situations de discrimination et de violence et à très haut risque de vivre de la négligence parentale. Les quelques recherches disponibles sur leur expérience en protection de la jeunesse montrent que ces jeunes sont souvent forcé·e·s de vivre dans un genre...

Le rapport de la Commission Laurent déposé le 3 avril 2021 a mis de l’avant de nombreuses recommandations visant à mieux «accompagner les jeunes dans la transition à la vie adulte». Ce rapport permettra de contribuer aux réflexions actuelles sur la mise en place «d’un programme complet et multidimensionnel qui vise la mise en place de services pos...

This article reports results from the first longitudinal and representative study of a cohort of youth leaving care in Quebec (EDJeP study). Focusing on education and residential stability, we show that youths from youth protection services accumulate important vulnerabilities that make their transition out of youth protection services very challen...

Placement instability negatively impacts the lives of youth placed in out-of-home care, and research on the topic indicates that it is related to negative long-term outcomes for youth in care. This study uses information gathered from two waves of interviews conducted with a representative sample of 1136 Quebec youths who were first met at around 1...

In recent years, Quebec has been undergoing a re‐evaluation of immigration and integration policies. The secessionist Parti Québécois had become the leader of this debate, which also coincided with a rise of right‐wing nativist, populist and sometimes authoritarian movements in other Western societies. This paper aims to evaluate the similarity or...

Recent research using the Big Five model of personality traits has highlighted the importance of personality traits to explaining diverse political behaviours and attitudes. The trait labelled openness to experience has also been found to positively affect political knowledge. This investigation seeks to distinguish two different components of open...

Diversity is at the core of any definition of Canada. But can different types of relationships among national symbols co-exist within the same national unit? And do these various symbolic assemblages have different effects on citizens’ attitudes and behaviour? This paper uses survey data to uncover patterns in Canadians’ attitudes towards 18 nation...

This paper studies the prevalence of ballot order effects in two different types of Canadian elections which differ greatly by the strength of party cues they provide to voters. Provincial elections are best described as a typical competition between well established and institutionalized parties, hence providing voters with strong party cues. Alte...