Among residents of San Diego County, California the incidence and external causes serious brain injury were related to median family income census tract residency. Low tracts had high rates--a finding not changed by adjustment for age race/ethnicity. For those injured, type emergency transport, time from treatment, outcome treatment

Abstract Victims of honour‐based violence/abuse (HBV/A), forced marriage (FM), and female genital mutilation (FGM) are now defined as ‘priority groups’ in the UK's Code Practice for Crime (commonly known Victims’ or VCOP). These groups encompass: those who affected by most serious forms crime; persistently targeted vulnerable age physical mental health; classified intimidated victims. The recommends that these victims receive a service’ includes rapid needs assessment enhanced support. This...

CHAPTER ONE: DEFINING Reforming the Modern Girl Absences and Presences Gender, Justice Citizenship TWO: COUNTING Girls Juvenile Courts Theft Violence Sex, Care Protection THREE: POLICING Statutory Strategies Private FOUR: REFORMING Domestic Economy Disciplinary Defining Reform FIVE: WRITING Entering Negotiating Beyond SIX: DIAGNOSING Pathology, Puberty Sex-Instinct Social Relations Subcultures Consuming Expert Diagnoses SEVEN: REDEFINING

Pamela Cox, The Future of History. We live in a new era evidence. knowledge economy demands kinds evidence deployed through types channel. Policy-makers demand to support decision-making. ‘Evidence-based policy’ is built around the need know if strategy or policy any other kind intervention – medicine, criminal justice, welfare, banking international aid has ‘worked’ and whether it cost effective. But what sought from sources? How are outcomes evaluated? do policy-makers deal with...

Over 70,000 children are ‘looked after’ by local authorities in England and Wales. Emerging research suggests that a significant proportion of their birth parents have either already lost child to permanent adoption or will go on lose others. These ‘repeat loss’ cases raise difficult questions about marginalized mothers reproductive autonomy. This article considers past present tactics used the state its attempts limit autonomy, including institutionalization, sterilization, long‐acting...

Over the past two decades, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been a key contributor to growing public health effort prevent violence. Although CDC its partners are proud of their many successes, much work remains be done. Violence continues leading cause death worldwide people aged 15-44. Moreover, although forms violence garner national concern resources, more occurs in private domains receives less attention. These hidden hazards silently drain our nation's human,...

The English family justice system faces a crisis of recurrence. As many as one in four birth mothers involved public law care proceedings courts are likely to reappear subsequent set within seven years. These up one-third total applications, they – by definition linked more than child . Few experiencing the removal offered any follow-up support, despite often facing multiple challenges including poverty, addiction, domestic violence and mental health problems. Since 2011, however, number new...

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There is little information available regarding the impact of varicella among healthy children. A group 137 households, identified by County Los Angeles Department Health Services, were interviewed telephone and yielded 247 cases varicella. no hospitalizations for complications. Rates physician visits calls to health care providers 0.5 1.0 per case, respectively. School days lost work well adults in households 8.7 Varicella had a measurable economic significance on our survey population. Our...

Social work practice has long focused on the connections between an individual and social environment that affect individual's functioning. The Rape Prevention Education (RPE) Program's theory model, Creating Safer Communities: Model of Community Change, provides family workers with a framework for examining changing factors lead to sexual violence. This model connects two societal change theories, community readiness diffusion innovations, three level reasoned action, planned behavior...

Abstract Translating evidence‐based HIV/STD prevention interventions and research findings into applicable HIV practice has become an important challenge for the fields of community psychology public health due to being given higher priority endorsement by federal, state, local department funders. The Interactive Systems Framework (ISF) Dissemination Implementation Division HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) Research‐to‐Practice model both address this challenge. DHAP ISF are each presented with a...

Over the past three decades, effect of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual (SV) on individuals families has become better understood by practitioners, researchers, socie...

This article analyses juvenile justice reform in Vietnam and suggests how this connects with key transformations wider Vietnamese cultures of control. It offers a grounded investigation themes raised recent discussions policy transfer the global criminal field. concurs others that processes convergence have their local limits, using examples to illustrate where comes about practice it does not. explores efforts professionalize existing community practices through discussion perceived needs...

How might historical analysis enrich global criminology? More specifically, could histories of European crime contribute to understandings social change in present-day Asia? can evidence bases generated through distinct research practices—those used by historians, criminologists and criminal justice consultants—be combined? This article explores these challenges an contemporary Vietnamese concerns about youth a critique local international policy makers’ efforts address these. It argues that...

Children living on 'the edge-of-care' are typically known to local safeguarding authorities and considered likely face risks their safety. Many subject a child protection plan and/or involved in 'pre-proceedings' processes. A growing number of parents (un)diagnosed mental health difficulties as well economic social precarity. This article draws mixed methods evaluation pilot service the East England offering therapeutically led attachment-based intervention for families. The cross-cuts care,...