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Both the killing of Baby Peter and the murders committed by Sonnex and Barker took place in some of the most deprived communities in Britain. In 2007 the London Boroughs of Haringey, where Baby Peter lived and brutally died, and Lewisham, where Sonnex and Farmer committed their horrific crimes, were both within the top 50 of the 354 local authorities in England on five of the six components of government measures of multiple deprivation, covering employment, incomes, health, education, housing, environment and crime (Leeser 2008).
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© 2011 Wendy Fitzgibbon
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Fitzgibbon, W. (2011). Family, Community and Violence. In: Probation and Social Work on Trial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230343337_3
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