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Les aspirations face à l’avenir que les jeunes mères en situation de vulnérabilité développent au tournant de l’âge adulte sont susceptibles d’être teintées par leur vécu, ainsi que par leur maternité. À partir d’une approche narrative, l’étude se penche sur les aspirations envers l’avenir de 20 jeunes mères dans toutes les sphères de leur vie, per...
In situations where the immediate safety of children or others is at risk, residential workers are authorized to use specific measures intended as last resort, namely restraint and seclusion (R&S). This study sought to identify and detail the reasons invoked by residential workers when justifying their decision to restrain or seclude a child. Resea...
Because of the nature of their mandate, child protection workers (CPWs) are at risk of experiencing physical and psychological forms of aggression at the hands of service users. For this reason, it is important that CPWs receive the support they need to ensure their resilience. This study sought to analyze how CPWs seek, receive, and perceive the s...
This qualitative study explored how counsellors who work with women currently
or formerly involved in sex work perceive these women's future. From May to July
2016, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 counsellors providing psychosocial
services in Canadian agencies with recognized mandates to support such
women. The interview protocol w...
Adolescent girls who have passed through child protection centers (CPC) are 2 to 3 times more likely to become young mothers. Approximately 60% of adolescent girls in CPC have experienced sexual, physical, or psychological abuse or neglect (Collin-Vézina et al., 2011, Connoly et al., 2012, van Vugt et al., 2014). As a result, by the time of adolesc...
Cette recherche qualitative exploratoire s’intéresse aux perceptions de mères détenues quant aux effets de leur incarcération sur leurs relations avec leurs enfants. L’étude documente également les conséquences qu’elles perçoivent à la suite de cette incarcération ainsi que les réactions de leurs enfants. Quinze mères incarcérées dans un établissem...
Objectif. L’objectif de cette étude qualitative est de décrire la motivation au travail des intervenants en protection de la jeunesse (PJ) en explorant leurs motifs initiaux de carrière (pourquoi avoir choisi de travailler en PJ) ainsi que leurs sources de motivation actuelles (les irritants et les avantages perçus dans leur environnement de travai...
Child protection workers (CPWs) are frequently exposed to client violence, both psychological and physical, in their line of work whether they operate in the community or in residential settings. Despite this known vulnerability, research on the subject has lagged. The current study sought to analyze CPWs' experiences with client violence, their in...
L’objectif de cet article est de décrire la place et l’usage des méthodes qualitatives tels qu’ils ressortent des recherches qui ont fait l’objet d’articles dans la revue Criminologie . Pour ce faire, nous nous intéressons au développement de ces méthodes à l’École de criminologie de l’Université de Montréal, puis à certaines des transformations qu...
The present study aims to explore, using Young’s early maladaptive schemas (EMS), the cognitive and emotional dimensions associated with the experience of motherhood of young women ageing out of care. It also assesses the relationships between EMS and two dimensions of the parental role (parental efficacy and parental distress). The sample is compo...
This qualitative study aimed to comprehend how mothers experienced and built their maternal identity throughout their lives. Thirty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with drug-using and law-breaking mothers. Results showed that three events were significant for participants: pregnancies, loss of custody, and incarceration. As each eve...
When drug-using and lawbreaking women are mothers, their competence as mothers is often questioned because good mothers are not supposed to do such things. Consequently, they are often labeled as unfit mothers. This qualitative study seeks to examine the experience of motherhood in substance-using and lawbreaking mothers. Interviews with 38 substan...
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La consommation de substances psychoactives (SPA) chez les femmes détenues ne fait que très rarement l’objet de recherches. Pourtant, l’usage de SPA chez les femmes judiciarisées avant leur incarcération est fréquent. Le matériel qualitatif traité dans le cadre de cet article de même que les analyses qui en découlent visent à améliorer notre...
Bon nombre de consommateurs de substances psychoactives se retrouvent dans les institutions carcérales québécoises et canadiennes. Or, leur consommation ne s'arrête pas nécessairement avec l'incarcération. Les taux de prévalence de consommation en prison et en pénitencier en témoignent. Aux prises avec les méfaits qui y sont associés (propagation d...
