Social Work and Social Sciences Review  

Alan Roulstone

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Kaare Torgny Pettersen

The study presented in this article is based on empirical material from a survey among leaders from 19 of the 20 incest centres in Norway, as well as interviews with 13 workers from one of these centres. The Norwegian incest centre movement started in the... see more

K. Maguire,P. Hodgson,K. Kamoche,M. Long,K. Love

UK police services constantly endure pressures to reduce spending and to reorganise in ways thought to be more efficient. In these moments of scrutiny, non-standard work practices become more noticeable. We report a study of a specialist unit, the Child P... see more

Ronald E. Hall

While most victims of domestic violence are women those prone to acts of domestic violence cannot be universally identified as male. Domestic violence permeates Western societies such as the United States and the United Kingdom which includes male victims... see more

Marie Drolet,Hindia Mohamoud

This article is a secondary analysis of the data gathered from 12 focus groups which were set up in 2006 with 64 members of three communities (Somali, Chinese and Lebanese origins). Its aim is to explore the barriers to social integration encountered by y... see more

Michelle Cornes,Jill Manthorpe,Jo Moriarty,Shereen Hussein

One of the solutions to the shortages of social workers in England has been to employ social workers on a temporary or locum basis, often these social workers are called agency social workers as their contract of employment is with a employment agency rat... see more

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