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BJSW Advance Access published online on July 9, 2009
British Journal of Social Work, doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcp079
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Familial Homicide and Social Work

Mark Drakeford and Ian Butler

Mark Drakeford is Professor of Social Work and Applied Social Studies at the University of Cardiff. He is also a senior Special Advisor to the First Minister at the Welsh Assembly Government. His research interests include poverty, youth policy and criminal justice issues. Ian Butler is Professor of Social Work at Bath University. He is a Special Advisor to the First Minister at the Welsh Assembly Government. His research interests include the production of welfare policy, children and young people's participation and child protection policy.

Correspondence to Professor Ian Butler, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Bath University, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. E-mail: i.butler{at}bath.ac.uk


  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.

Keywords: Child abuse, familial homicide, domestic violence


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