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Services for Young People Who Sexually Abuse. A report on mapping and exploring services for young people who have sexually abused others (2005)
Report
Hackett, S., Masson, H., & Phillips, S. (2005). Services for Young People Who Sexually Abuse. A report on mapping and exploring services for young people who have sexually abused others. [No known commissioning body]

The overall aim of this study was to investigate recent developments in the UK and Republic of Ireland in services for young people who have demonstrated sexually abusive behaviour, including their organisational, theoretical and policy bases, and to... Read More about Services for Young People Who Sexually Abuse. A report on mapping and exploring services for young people who have sexually abused others.

Stress and stereotypes: Children's reactions to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001 (2005)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., Hillyard, S., & Wright, N. (2005). Stress and stereotypes: Children's reactions to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001. Children & Society, 19(5), 384-359. https://doi.org/10.1002/chi.845

In 2001 foot and mouth disease broke out in the UK and millions of farm animals were slaughtered in order to eradicate it. This affected farmers, town dwellers, adults and children. Based on a small sample of 56 e-mails to a children's BBC (CBBC) mes... Read More about Stress and stereotypes: Children's reactions to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001.

Complexity, Configuration and Cases (2005)
Journal Article
Byrne, D. (2005). Complexity, Configuration and Cases. Theory, Culture and Society, 22(5), 95-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276405057194

How can we make complexity work as part of a programme of engaged social science? This article attempts to answer that question by arguing that one way to do this is through a reconstruction of a central tool of a distinctively social science – the c... Read More about Complexity, Configuration and Cases.

Endangered Children: Experiencing and Surviving the State as Failed Parent and Grandparent (2005)
Journal Article
Dominelli, L., Callahan, M., Rutman, D., & Strega, S. (2005). Endangered Children: Experiencing and Surviving the State as Failed Parent and Grandparent. The British Journal of Social Work, 35(7), 1123-1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bch224

The state removes children from ‘failed’ parents to give them a better experience of parenting. This article examines the role that the state plays as parent to young mothers in care and grandparent to their children, drawing on a small-scale study u... Read More about Endangered Children: Experiencing and Surviving the State as Failed Parent and Grandparent.

Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm (2005)
Journal Article
Cresswell, M. (2005). Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm. Social Science & Medicine, 61(8), 1668-1677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.03.033

UK “Psychiatric Survivors”—a variety of activist groups comprising individuals who have been on the “receiving end” of psychiatric treatment—have, since the mid-1980s, mounted a challenge to the psychiatric system. “Survivors” have formulated their o... Read More about Psychiatric 'survivors' and testimonies of self-harm.

Accounting for Ethical Difficulties in Social Welfare Work: Issues, Problems and Dilemmas (2005)
Journal Article
Banks, S., & Williams, R. (2005). Accounting for Ethical Difficulties in Social Welfare Work: Issues, Problems and Dilemmas. The British Journal of Social Work, 35(7), 1005-1022. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bch199

This paper is a preliminary exploration of social welfare practitioners’ accounts of ‘ethically difficult situations’. It describes variations in the ethical vocabulary and form of these accounts. Analysis of practitioners’ own accounts (as opposed t... Read More about Accounting for Ethical Difficulties in Social Welfare Work: Issues, Problems and Dilemmas.

Accessing Habitus: Relating Structure and Agency Through Focus Group Research (2005)
Journal Article
Callaghan, G. (2005). Accessing Habitus: Relating Structure and Agency Through Focus Group Research. Sociological Research Online, 10(3),

The article focuses on the intersection of theory methodology and empirical research to argue that we can learn about habitus through certain types of focus groups. An account of the relationship between structure, individual and collective agency is... Read More about Accessing Habitus: Relating Structure and Agency Through Focus Group Research.

Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations (2005)
Journal Article
Williams, R., & Johnson, P. (2005). Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 33(3), 545-558. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2005.tb00517.x

In the article, “Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations,” Professor Robin Williams and Research Fellow Paul Johnson, of the University of Durham, U.K., prov... Read More about Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations.

Prevention of childhood obesity (2005)
Journal Article
Ells, L., Campbell, K., Lidstone, J., Kelly, S., Lang, R., & Summerbell, C. (2005). Prevention of childhood obesity. Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 19(3), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beem.2005.04.008

Childhood obesity is a complex disease with different genetic, metabolic, environmental and behavioural components that are interrelated and potentially confounding, thus making causal pathways difficult to define. Given the tracking of obesity and t... Read More about Prevention of childhood obesity.