The dependency court and the child welfare agency are both responsible for protecting children and mending families. Yet, too often, the court and the agency work on their common goals independently of one another. This paper explores the ways in which juvenile and family courts and child welfare agencies across the country are sharing data and information, and collaborating with one another ou...

BACKGROUND Juveniles with intellectual disabilities (ID) are more often victims of maltreatment and more often perpetrators of abuse than juveniles without ID. Because previous research on the relationship between maltreatment victimisation and subsequent offending behaviour was primarily performed in non-disabled samples, the present study aimed to examine differences between juvenile offender...

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 37 No. 6, June 2010 695-708 DOI: 10.1177/0093854810363721 © 2010 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology AUTHORS’ NOTE: Christopher T. Lowenkamp is now at the Administrative Offices of the U.S. Courts. Matthew D. Makarios is now at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. Richard Lemke is now at the University of West Georgia. This res...

Children commit crimes and they are convicted daily in our courts. Once the court convicts child as an offender, it must impose correctional measures immediately. The major rationale for handling down to mechanisms is rehabilitate offender. Thus, Juvenile Court obliged maintain strengthen family relationships, choose a least restrictive sentence which proportionate both offence offender that ma...

Laurence Steinberg and Elizabeth Cauffman’s essay moves in a positive direction by suggesting ways to incorporate considerations of an adolescent’s developmental status into assessments regarding his or her delinquent and criminal behavior. If the assumptions underlying their thesis are correct, however, then their conclusions could and should be extended much further. Their analysis, taken tog...

Competency to stand trial (CST) has been among the most thoroughly researched psycholegal issues in the past 20 years. However, little attention has been given to CST in juveniles facing delinquency or criminal proceedings. In a sample of 112 pretrial juvenile defendants undergoing court-ordered CST evaluations, 14 percent of the sample was judged incompetent to stand trial (IST). Sixty-one (55...

This Essay considers the emerging research in the area of dual-jurisdiction children, often referred to as “crossover kids”—those currently or previously involved in maltreatment proceedings who have also committed delinquent acts. Part I describes the development of the juvenile courts in the early twentieth century. Part II of this Essay questions the need to “track” children along one legal ...