Family 'replaced by gang culture' / BBC, 2 July 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7484605.stm
"Barbara Wilding, Chief Constable of South Wales, said in some areas tribal loyalty replaced that of the family. Her speech was made at King's College London in May, and reported in The Times, which obtained a transcript. Ms Wilding said that family breakdown was the root cause of many problems for young people."
Times article - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4252089.ece

Adolescent Drinking Influenced By Parental Drinking / Medical News Today, 4 February 2008
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/96052.php
Parenting Mechanisms in Links Between Parents’ and Adolescents’ Alcohol Use Behaviors
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 32 Issue 2 Page 322-330, February 2008
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00583.x
Shawn J. Latendresse, Richard J. Rose, Richard J. Viken, Lea Pulkkinen, Jaakko Kaprio, Danielle M. Dick
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Keeping Children Safe Online / US. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, 17 January 2008
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST05-002.html
"Children present unique security risks when they use a computer—not only do you have to keep them safe, you have to protect the data on your computer. By taking some simple steps, you can dramatically reduce the threats."

Closing the Barn Door: The Effect of Parental Supervision on Canadian Children's Online Privacy
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 28, No. 1, 4-19 (2008)
http://bst.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/4?rss=1
Valerie Steeves ; Cheryl Webster
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[USA] Parenthood and adult criminal offending: The importance of relationship quality
Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 35, Issue 6, December 2007, Pages 630-643
http://digbig.com/4wepn
Natasha M. Ganem, and Robert Agnew
"Drawing on social control, social learning, and general strain theories, it was hypothesised that the quality of a parent-child relationship would be negatively related to adult crime. In addition, it was predicted that relationship quality would more strongly impact the criminal behaviour of single parents, teenage parents, and those with prior criminal records. Data from the National Youth Survey was analysed using a combination of probit and truncated regression. Results provided partial support for hypotheses."
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Factors Associated with Co-occurrence of Spousal and Parental Violence: Quebec Population Study
Journal of Family Violence, Volume 22, Number 8 / November, 2007, Pages 661-674
http://digbig.com/4wdak
Sylvie Lévesque, Marie-Éve Clément and Claire Chamberland
"Although the occurrence of both spousal and parental violence within the same family has been documented, there are scarcely any data on this phenomenon for Quebec and Canada. This study pursued two goals: to determine what differences exist between three groups in which family violence occurs (spousal violence, parental violence and co-occurrence of the two) and to better document the factors related to the different types of family violence by developing an explanatory model. Our findings support the hypothesis that families in which spousal and parental violence co-occur are not qualitatively different from those families in which only spousal or only parental violence occurs, but that they differ in the severity of the cases reported."
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The Co-occurrence of Child and Intimate Partner Maltreatment in the Family: Characteristics of the Violent Perpetrators
Journal of Family Violence, Volume 22, Number 8 / November, 2007, Pages 675-689
http://digbig.com/4wdaj
Louise Dixon, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Kevin Browne and Eugene Ostapuik
"This study considers the characteristics associated with mothers and fathers who maltreat their child and each other in comparison to parents who only maltreat their child. This study suggests that violent families should be assessed and treated in a holistic manner, considering the effects of partner violence upon all family members, rather than exclusively intervening with the violent man."
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Attributions in a Hypothetical Child Sexual Abuse Case: Roles of Abuse Type, Family Response and Respondent Gender
Journal of Family Violence, Volume 22, Number 8 / November, 2007, Pages 733-745
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Lisa Graham, Paul Rogers and Michelle Davies
"The present study examines the impact abuse type, family response, and respondent gender have on attributions of blame in a hypothetical child sexual abuse (CSA) case. Overall, the assault was deemed more serious, the perpetrator more culpable, and the family less culpable when CSA involved (vaginal) penetration. Contrary to expectations, respondents were more negative towards a family who denied the abuse took place versus one which blamed or supported the victim. Finally, male respondents deemed the abuse to be less serious, were more negative towards the victim and their families, and more positive towards perpetrators than were female respondents."
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Co-Occurrence of Interparental Violence and Child Physical Abuse and It’s Effect on the Adolescents’ Behavior
Journal of Family Violence, Volume 22, Number 8 / November, 2007, Pages 691-701
http://digbig.com/4wdaf
Chantal Bourassa
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Mothering and Domestic Violence: A Longitudinal Analysis
Journal of Family Violence, Volume 22, Number 8 / November, 2007, Pages 649-659
http://digbig.com/4wdae
N. L. Letourneau, C. B. Fedick and J. D. Willms
"Recent research suggests that mothers of preschool-age children exposed to domestic violence may be more sensitive and responsive to their children than other parents. This heightened sensitivity and responsiveness in relationships may be key to the successful development of some children exposed to domestic violence; however this theory remains unexplored. The authors' analysis revealed that mothers of children exposed to domestic violence may indeed compensate for exposure to violence in their parenting interactions with their 2- to 12-year-old children."

Children & drug rehab: Nine-year-olds among thousands seeking help with their addiction problems / Independent on Sunday, 18 November 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3172152.ece
Brian Brady and Nina Lakhani
"Family breakdown and school exclusion are just two factors that are turning Britain's youngsters into drug abusers, especially of cannabis. Last year, more than 9,000 went into treatment – an increase of 20 per cent."

Becoming a family man
drinkanddrugsnews 5 November 2007 12 Families Prisons and Beyond
PDF - http://www.drinkanddrugs.net/features/nov0507/becoming_a_family_man.pdf
"Safe Ground’s drama courses are giving fathers the skills to rebuild relationships with their families from within prison."

[Scotland] How we were saved from being branded another 'family from hell' / Scotsman, 26 October 2007
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1707902007
LOUISE GRAY
"JANET Leith's family were in danger of becoming the "neighbours from hell". She was just coming off heroin, her partner, Allan, was in prison for drugs offences and her four children often played truant from school. Neighbours feared it was only a matter of time before one of the children attracted the attention of police, not least for throwing stones at windows, or the entire family became the subject of an ASBO for noise nuisance. But the pattern of behaviour was broken when Scotland's first ever early intervention unit contacted the family at their Edinburgh home."

Keeping an eye on the teenagers / New Statesman, 25 October 2007
http://www.newstatesman.com/200710250022
Viv Groskop
"There is a deep unease towards teenagers at the moment. Perhaps it is a backlash against the laissez-faire child-rearing of the 1970s."

Grow up, you dopey parents / Sunday Times, 14 October 2007
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article2651536.ece
Karen Robinson
"Parents who help their children buy soft drugs are sending the wrong signals"

Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile / Statistics Canada, October 2007
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/85-224-XIE/85-224-XIE2007000.htm
Lucie Ogrodnik
''This is the tenth annual Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile report. This annual report provides the most current data on the nature and extent of family violence in Canada, as well as trends over time, as part of the ongoing initiative to inform policy makers and the public about family violence issues. Each year the report has a different focus. This year, for the first time, the criminal histories of persons accused of spousal homicide or attempted spousal homicide are examined. Using the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey, a composite file was created to identify police-reported offences committed by spousal homicide offenders over the previous 11-year period (1995 to 2005). In addition, the report also presents an analysis of family violence against children and youth, and family violence against seniors (65 years and over).''

Echoes of the Satanic panic / Sp!ked, 27 September 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/3894/
Heather Piper
"Are families being torn apart on the dubious basis that animal cruelty and child abuse are linked?
Does harming an animal suggest that you would harm a child? Many people wouldn’t think that one kind of behaviour would necessarily be linked to the other. Yet, it is claimed that agencies are now taking children away from their parents based on this very thinking, which appears to have become remarkably mainstream in academic and professional thought."

Prisoners' Families and Resettlement: A Critical Analysis
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 46 Issue 3 Page 255-263, July 2007
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2007.00472.x
HELEN CODD
"A number of recent research publications have reiterated the important role played by supportive family ties in facilitating the successful community re-entry of ex-prisoners and in preventing reoffending. This, in turn, has led to increased official recognition of the value of supporting the family ties of prisoners. However, although providing assistance to prisoners' families with reference to their role in preventing reoffending may be of value in pragmatically improving their often profoundly negative experiences, such an approach is problematic on a number of grounds. This article critically analyses the issues."
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Sure Start Local Programmes and Domestic Abuse / DCSF, July 2007
PDF - http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/NESS2007FR025.pdf

Family-Based Justice in the Sentencing of Domestic Violence
British Journal of Criminology, Volume 47, Number 4, Pp. 655-670
http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/4/655
Ronit Dinovitzer and Myrna Dawson
"This paper investigates the role of the family in the sentencing of offenders in a specialized domestic violence court. We examine both the likelihood of incarceration and the determinants of sentence length, and find that conceptions of the family continue to have an important influence on these criminal process outcomes. In cases in which the victim has suffered serious injuries, offenders in intact relationships are more likely to be sentenced to jail, yet, at the same time, when incarcerated, these offenders receive shorter sentences. The current study suggests the continued relevance of ‘family-based justice’ in the sanctioning of offenders, so that moral imperatives continue to intersect with the actuarial logic of modern penal practices."
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