Abstract:Compulsory care or not? Social workers’ discretionary reasoning when children need out-of-home care due to homicidal violence
The aim of this article is to analyse social workers’ discretionary reasoning when children need immediate and long-term out-of-home care due to homicidal violence. In Sweden, children may be placed in out-of-home care without legal proceedings as a voluntary support measure even in serious cases of maltreatment, if the child’s custodians give their consent to such care. H… Show more
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