Juvenile Delinquents in their Urban Setting

Health of juvenile delinquents.

Intermediate treatment centres were established in 1969 to enable delinquent adolescents to remain within their communities under supervision, avoiding the imposition of a custodial sentence.' This study compares the physical health of a group of delinquent boys who attended Parkway, an intermediate treatment centre in a deprived inner city area, with that of non-delinquents. Subjects, methods ...

Delinquents and Their Parents

parents involved, the organisation formed for the benefit of parents of delinquents, has a current membership of ninety. One-third live in the London area, where fortnightly meetings are held to discuss common problems. An average of twelve parents attend each meeting, a few regularly, the majority spasmodically. Guests who are professionally concerned with delinquency are invited to some of th...

Pathways to dissociation: intrafamilial versus extrafamilial trauma in juvenile delinquents.

Dissociation is postulated to occur as a function of particular types of child abuse or chronic abuse. Additionally, there is an ongoing controversy examining the perpetrator's relationship to the victim in the development of dissociation. In this study, reports of traumatic events experienced both in the family environment and in the community were used to examine the relationship between diss...

Mental Types of Juvenile Delinquents Considered in Relation to Treatment

Mortality in a group of formerly incarcerated juvenile delinquents.

A 7-year follow-up study of formerly incarcerated delinquents revealed an extremely high mortality rate. Of 118 male and female subjects, seven had died before their 25th birthdays, making the mortality rate of the sample approximately 58 times the national average for individuals in their age group. All died violent deaths, making the violent death rate of the sample approximately 76 times the...