This book explores risk management and successful intervention for children in public care who have committed, or are at risk of committing, acts of serious violence. Acknowledgements, Foreword, Introduction and Context, Difficult to Place Children: Key Characteristics and Challenges and Opportunities, Risk Factors for Serious and Violent Antisocial Behaviour in Children and Youth, Children with Sexually Abusive Behaviour - A Special Subgroup, Minors Involved in Murder and Manslaughter: An Exploration of the Situation in the Netherlands, Outcomes and Practical Considerations, The Placement and Care and Treatment of Children and Young People who Commit Serious Acts of Interpersonal Violence or Sexual Offences, Implications of Different Residential Treatments for Young People Who Commit Serious Crimes, Hard to Place Children and Young People: A Commentary on Past and Present and Future Approaches to Care and Treatment, Challenges to Meeting the Needs of These Children Effectively: An Overview of an International Research Study in Germany and Greece and England and Wales, Working with Violent Children in German Young Services: Results of a Survey, Children Who Commit Serious Acts of Interpersonal Violence: A Field Study in Greece, Dealing with the Children Who are Hardest to Place: Results of a Survey of Childcare Agencies in England, Conclusions: Messages for Good Practice, Appendices: Brief Commentaries, Subject and Author Index.