Juvenile offenders face a broad array of adverse risk factors, ranging from family disruption to negative peer influence. As the number of these risk factors increase, so does the probability of a youth’s subsequent involvement in delinquency. Accordingly, we should not be surprised that those youth who are at greatest risk of becoming serious, violent, and chronic offenders are often involved ...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the utility of screening adjudicated juvenile offenders for mental health symptoms at intake to the State of Washington Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration. The authors assessed the ability of a screening measure, the Massachusetts Youth Screening Inventory, second edition (MAYSI-2), to identify youths with mental health problems and co-occurring substance use ...

Within the past decade, reliance on the juvenile justice system to meet the needs of juvenile offenders with mental health concerns has increased. Due to this tendency, research has been conducted on the effectiveness of various intervention and treatment programs/approaches with varied success. Recent literature suggests that because of interrelated problems involved for youth in the juvenile ...

We assume that complex mental changes caused by penal stress are often accompanied by a decline in the immune response. Evaluation immunophysiological shifts in people adolescence that are conditions of detention are the target of this study. A total of 57 adolescents, 47 of them students of educational colonies of Russia's largest cities, and 10 students of secondary and higher educational ins...

The current study examined the impact of exposure to violence and neighborhood disadvantage on criminal recidivism among Black (n = 69) and White (n = 53) female juvenile offenders. Participants were girls between the ages of 13 and 19 (M = 16.8; SD = 1.2) who were sentenced to secure custody. Using a multi-method research design, the study assessed neighborhood disadvantage through census leve...

Professional decision making in forensic clinical practice may have lifelong consequences for offenders. Although information on moral development is important for prediction of reoffending and referral to adequate treatment, conclusions regarding moral development are still largely based on unstructured clinical judgment instead of assessment instruments. For this study, the authors examined t...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric properties and the perceived usefulness of the BARO (Dutch: BAsisRaadsOnderzoek; Protection Board Preliminary Examination of Juvenile Suspects). The BARO is a first-line screening instrument for the identification of psychiatric disorders, adverse environmental factors, and levels of (dys)function in adolescent offenders (age 1...

Prior to the creation of the first juvenile court, most children who committed crimes in the colonial United States were prosecuted as adults in the tradition of English law. Common law of that period held that children under the age of 7 were presumed incapable of committing a crime (the defense of “infancy”). Children between the ages of 7 and 14 were presumed responsible for their acts, but ...