Familial homicide and social work

Drakeford, Mark and Butler, Ian 2009. Familial homicide and social work. British Journal of Social Work 40 (5) , pp. 1419-1433. 10.1093/bjsw/bcp079

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Abstract

This article focuses on the relatively new offence in the UK of familial homicide and contrasts the experience of two women whose children died violently at the hands of their partners and examines the actions of those public agencies that were associated with the events surrounding the children's deaths. In this way, the article demonstrates how far social work practice, in accommodating to the current of the times, may have moved away from the defence of disadvantaged women and failed to speak and act on their behalf.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Uncontrolled Keywords:	child abuse; familial homicide; domestic violence
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0045-3102
Last Modified:	04 May 2016 01:59
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/19170

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