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Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences (2020)
Journal Article
Richardson, V., & Brammer, A. (2020). Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 42(3), 360 - 376. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2020.1796223

Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Ac... Read More about Mothers of children removed under a care order: outcomes and experiences.

Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. (2017)
Journal Article
Brammer. (2017). Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 67-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1275124

The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a... Read More about Contact, welfare and children in care: Revisiting the significance of harm after finding significant harm..

Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice (2016)
Journal Article
Boylan, J., Brammer, A., Krishnadas, J., Patel, P., & Lingam, L. (2016). Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice. Ethics and Social Welfare, 10(4), 304-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2016.1151909

This paper reflects on a three-year research project involving academics and public, private and third sector partners in the UK and India. The team engaged with innovative international outreach research methods to question how listening to ‘voices... Read More about Time for justice, time for change! The place of academic and community partnerships in promoting local and global rights and challenging injustice.

‘The changing face of youth justice’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Brammer. (2016). ‘The changing face of youth justice’. In Critical Issues in Social Work Law (100 - 116 (176))

In this chapter we are concerned with the operation of the criminal justice system as it applies to defendants under 18 years of age. This group includes children (10–13) and young persons (14–17), collectively referred to as ‘juveniles’ and, in this... Read More about ‘The changing face of youth justice’.

Carers and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Angels Permitted, Devils Prosecuted? (2014)
Journal Article
Brammer. (2014). Carers and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Angels Permitted, Devils Prosecuted?

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 introduced a new criminal offence of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of a person lacking capacity. The Court of Appeal has clarified the terms of the offence in the case of Dunn1, and more recently in Nursing2 and Patel.3... Read More about Carers and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Angels Permitted, Devils Prosecuted?.