Juvenile Delinquency

Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-516007-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Summarizes the evidence available on juvenile delinquency prevention, assessment, and intervention
- Surveys critical issues in understanding and treating delinquency and anti-social behaviour
- Distinguishes what works from what doesn't regarding policy, practice and research
- Contains a model curriculum for training legal and mental health professionals in forensic assessment

Juvenile offending and anti-social behaviour are enormous societal concerns. This broad-reaching volume summarizes the current evidnece on prevention, diversion, causes, and rates of delinquency, as well as assessment of risk and intervention needs. A distinguished cast of contributors from law, psychology, and psychiatry describe what we know about interventions in school, community, and residential contexts, focusing particularly on interventions that are risk reducing and cost effective. Equally important, each chapter comments on what is not well supported through research, distinguishing aspects of current practice that are likely to be effective from those that are not and mapping new directions for research, policy, and practice. Finally, the volume provides a description of a model curriculum for training legal and mental health professionals on conducting relevant assessments of adolescents for the courts.
Effectively bridging research and practice, this will be an important resource for legal and mental health professionals involved in the juvenile justice system, policy makers seeking humane but effective interventions in the context of society's need for safety, and those involved in teaching about and training in juvenile delinquency.

Zielgruppe

Psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social workers, and judges within the juvenile justice system, graduate students, law students, advanced undergraduates, forensic psychology and child/adolescent psychiatry fellows

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heilbrun, Kirk

Goldstein, Naomi

Goldstein, Naomi E. Sevin

Redding, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Jugendkriminalität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction
- 2 Risk Factors, Protective Factors and the Prevention of Antisocial Behaviour Among Juveniles
- 3 School Violence: Fears Versus Facts
- 4 Juvenile Offending
- 5 Mental Health Disorders: The Neglected Risk Factor in Juvenile Delinquency
- 6 Risk Factors and Intervention Outcomes: Meta-Analyses of Juvenile Offending
- 7 Mental Health and Rehabilitative Services in Juvenile Justice: System Reforms and Innovative Approaches
- 8 Juvenile Diversion
- 9 Juveniles' Competence to Confess and Competence to Participate in the Juvenile Justic Process
- 10 Risk Assessment in Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice
- 11 Adjudicatory and Dispositional Decision Making in Juvenile Justice
- 12 Community-Based Treatments
- 13 Mental Health Treatment for Juvenile Offenders in Residential Psychiatric and Juvenile Justice Settings
- 14 Training Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Professionals in Juvenile Forensic Assessment
- 15 Emerging Directions: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice

Über Autor(innen)

Kirk Heilbrun, Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Naomi E. Sevin Goldstein, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, both at Drexel University, USA, and Richard E. Redding, Professor of Law, Villanova University, USA