* Arrested Contact: The Criminal Justice System, Race, and Father Engagement * Correctional Orientations of Prison Staff * Does Parole Work?—Revisited: Reframing the Discussion of the Impact of Postprison Supervision

* Treatment of Sexual Offenders With Psychopathic Traits: Recent Research Developments and Clinical Implications * Economic Violence To Women and Girls: Is It Receiving the Necessary Attention? * The Involvement

This report covers the Children in Need census, which gathers information on the numbers and characteristics of children in need, such as children receiving care and other social services support.

New commitments in the carers’ strategy include:

* Freedom as self-transgression: transformations in the ‘governmentality’ of social work * Young people and drugs: on navigation in the drug landscape * The development of an ethnically sensitive approach

This Statistics Publication Notice contains revised estimates on alcohol consumption from the 2003 Scottish Health Survey following the development of new alcohol unit conversion factors. This publication covers the headline

* Does alcohol increase the risk of overdose death: the need for a translational approach * Are there genetic influences on addiction: evidence from family, adoption and twin studies *

A report on a consultation exercise that took place between September 2007 and December 2007 relating to draft Code of Practice guidance and two sets of draft regulations concerning the

* Making progress in psychosocial research in dementia * `I was worried coming in because I don’t really know why it was arranged’: The subjective experience of new patients and

* Context binding in schizophrenia: Effects of clinical symptomatology and item content * Verbal recall and recognition in twins discordant for schizophrenia * Impairment of motor dexterity in schizophrenia assessed