Children in Trouble: The Role of Families, Schools and Communities

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- 1 Children in Trouble - Historical, Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives -- Childhood and Trouble -- Residential and Community Options for Children in Trouble -- Children, Behaviour and Schooling -- Understanding Children's Behaviour -- Social Control -- Risk, Protection and Resilience -- Problem Construction -- 2 Children in Trouble - Contemporary Perspectives -- Contemporary Debates -- Joined-up Government, Joined-up Service Delivery? -- Poverty and Social Exclusion -- Victims and Perpetrators -- Populist Punitiveness -- Risk and Fear -- Crime, Disorder and the New Youth Justice -- Extending Controls on Anti-social Behaviour -- Every Child Matters and Youth Matters Too -- Children's Rights -- Children as Investments, Children as Threats and Children as Victims -- 3 Children in Trouble - What Kind of Trouble? -- Estimating the Number and Proportion of Different Types of 'Trouble' -- Youth Crime and Victimisation -- Problem Behaviour in School -- Children in Trouble at Home -- Mental Health -- Reviewing the Evidence -- 4 Families and Children in Trouble -- The Importance of Families and Parenting -- Children 'Looked After' by the State -- A Local Sure Start Partnership - What Do the Parents Think? -- Families as the Solution? Family Group Conferences -- Living Away from Home and Locality: Why Are Some Children in 'Out-of-Area' Placements? -- Changes in Who Cares and Family Forms -- 5 Children in Trouble at School -- 'In Trouble' in School -- Behaviour in Schools -- Early Intervention: Working with Parents and Primary Schools -- Behaviour Management Training in Schools: An Example -- Schools and Their Role in Preventing, Reducing and Responding to Troublesome Behaviour -- 6 Children in Trouble in the Community (with M. Johns).