TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Familial homicide and social work
JO  - British journal of social work
A1  - Drakeford, Mark
A1  - Butler, Ian
SP  - 1419
EP  - 1433
VL  - 40
IS  - 5
N2  - This article focuses on the relatively new offense 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 defense of disadvantaged women and failed to speak and act on their behalf.<p />
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SN  - 0045-3102
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcp079
ID  - ref1
ER  -