Professor Simon Hackett's Outputs (4)

Developmental markers of risk or vulnerability? Young females who sexually abuse: characteristics, backgrounds, behaviours and outcomes. (2012)
Journal Article
Masson, H., Hackett, S., Phillips, J., & Balfe, M. (2015). Developmental markers of risk or vulnerability? Young females who sexually abuse: characteristics, backgrounds, behaviours and outcomes. Child & Family Social Work, 20(1), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12050

This paper presents findings from a subsample of 24 young females aged 8–16 years who were referred to specialist services in England during the 1990s because of their abusive sexual behaviours. The characteristics, backgrounds and behaviours of the... Read More about Developmental markers of risk or vulnerability? Young females who sexually abuse: characteristics, backgrounds, behaviours and outcomes..

Family responses to young people who have sexually abused: anger, ambivalence and acceptance (2012)
Journal Article
Hackett, S., Balfe, M., Masson, H., & Phillips, J. (2014). Family responses to young people who have sexually abused: anger, ambivalence and acceptance. Children & Society, 28(2), 128-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2012.00471.x

Data on 117 British young people who had sexually abused others were examined in order to investigate the nature and impact of family responses on the management of young sexual abusers. Parental responses were varied, ranging from being entirely sup... Read More about Family responses to young people who have sexually abused: anger, ambivalence and acceptance.

The place that theory plays in child protection social work. (2012)
Book Chapter
Hackett, S. (2012). The place that theory plays in child protection social work. In M. Davies (Ed.), Social Work with Children and Families: Policy, Law, Theory, Research, Practice (121-134). Palgrave Macmillan

Redefining Family Relationships Following Adoption: Adoptive Parents' Perspectives on the Changing Nature of Kinship between Adoptees and Birth Relatives (2012)
Journal Article
Jones, C., & Hackett., S. (2012). Redefining Family Relationships Following Adoption: Adoptive Parents' Perspectives on the Changing Nature of Kinship between Adoptees and Birth Relatives. The British Journal of Social Work, 42(2), 283-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr060

Contemporary child adoption in the UK and USA has been conceptualised as an extended kinship network of adopted children, birth relatives and adopters (Reitz and Watson, 1992; Grotevant and McRoy, 1998). This contrasts sharply with the traditional mo... Read More about Redefining Family Relationships Following Adoption: Adoptive Parents' Perspectives on the Changing Nature of Kinship between Adoptees and Birth Relatives.