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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 school and more likely to experience housing instability and homelessness than are youth who have been in child protection alone. The article demonstrates that the differences between the two groups are far from anecdotal. The potential interactions of these results with the youth’s interpersonal support network are also examined. Finally, this article paints a bleaker picture of the situations dual-system youth experience during the transition to adulthood. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on the outcomes of the transition to adulthood to design socio-legal actions that can better prepare dual-system youth for this stage of their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several empirical studies have shown that women who experience violence in intimate personal relationships (IPV) commonly experience more than one form of violence. While it is recognized that individual trajectories of IPV vary over time, little is known about the temporal dynamics of this co-occurrence or its consequences. This study describes the different forms of violence experienced by women and looks at whether it is possible to predict when severe violence (physical and sexual) is most likely to occur. Data in the study comes from interviews with 70 women who had been victims of intimate partner violence. The life history calendar method was used to facilitate identifying kinds and levels of violence and the month in which violence took place. Individual victimization trajectories were found to be heterogenous and likely to change in the short term. The women in our sample experienced more than one form of intimate partner violence and co-occurrence of different forms of violence was common in individual trajectories. The characteristics of the kind of violence experienced were important in understanding the temporal aspects of acts of severe violence. The increased knowledge about patterns of violence provided by these results should help to develop better ways to intervene to prevent such events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]