Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 What Is 'Family Criminology'?
1.1.1 Defining Family Criminology
What Is Criminology?
What Is Family?
1.1.2 Locating Family Criminology
1.2 Researching Family Criminology
1.2.1 Collecting Data on Crime and Family Life
Listening to People
Watching People
Auditing People
1.2.2 Family Criminology in the Field
1.3 Theorising Family Criminology
1.3.1 Psychoanalytic Theories and Family Systems Theories
Psychoanalytic Theories
Family Systems Theories

1.3.2 Feminism and Intersectionality
Feminism
Intersectionality
This Book
References
2 The Criminogenic Family: Families as the Cause of Crime in Research and Policy
2.1 Families as the Cause of Youth Crime
2.1.1 Research on Youth Crime and Family Life: A Brief History
Theories of Youth Crime and Family Life During the Twentieth Century
2.1.2 Longitudinal Studies on Families and Youth Offending
Interpreting the Findings
2.2 Youth Crime Prevention: The Role of Families
2.2.1 Parents in Youth Crime Legislation and Policy
The Troubled Families Agenda

2.2.2 Family Group Conferences
2.3 Youth Crime Prevention: Family Intervention Work
2.3.1 Youth Crime Prevention: Group Parenting Programmes
Culturally-Adapted Parenting Programmes
2.3.2 Youth Crime Prevention: One-to-One Family Support
Functional Family Therapy
Multi-Systemic Therapy
Treatment Foster Care Oregon for Adolescents (TFCO-A)
Useful Websites
References
3 The Stigmatised Family: The Impact of Offending on Families
3.1 Offending and Families: Impacts and Challenges
3.1.1 The Challenges of Parenting Criminalised Children

Criminalised Children and Mother-Blaming
3.1.2 Families as 'Secondary Victims'
3.2 The Families of Incarcerated Persons
3.2.1 The Impact of Incarceration on Families
Prison Visits
3.2.2 Release, Resettlement and Desistance
Desistance and the Family
3.3 The Children of Incarcerated Parents
3.3.1 The Impact on Parental Imprisonment on Children
3.3.2 Mother and Baby Units
Useful Websites
References
4 The Mafia Family: Organised Crime Families
4.1 Organised Crime and Mafia Families
4.1.1 Organised Crime Families
4.1.2 The Italian Mafia

4.2 Mafia Families: Women and Children
4.2.1 Mafia Families: Wives and Mothers
4.2.2 Mafia Families: Children
4.3 Witness Protection Programmes and Families
4.3.1 Witness Protection Programmes and Family Life
4.3.2 Children on Witness Protection Programmes
References
5 The Violent Family: Domestic and Family Violence
5.1 Gender-Based Violence and the Family
5.1.1 What Is Gender-Based Violence?
5.1.2 Gender-Based Violence in the Family
5.2 The Nature and Causes of Family Violence
5.2.1 Conceptualising Family Violence