Helping Parents in Dispute

Greg Mantle, Senior Lecturer in Probations Studies, Department of Social Work, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK. Probation service practitioner and researcher. Doctoral research on offender userism/ consumerism in the probation service. Teaching interests include professional power, research methods, criminology and penology.

Contents: Introduction;

The significance and duration of agreements reached in mediation;

Fathers and fairness;

Mediation and violence;

Solicitors, district judges and courtrooms;

The best and worst of mediation;

Conclusion: future family mediation;

Bibliography;

Appendices;

Index.