Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An overview of child and adolescent mental health needs in the juvenile justice system
- 2 Psychiatric disorders of youth in detention
- 3 Disproportionate minority confinement
- 4 Police interrogation of youth
- 5 Assessing children's competence to stand trial and to waive Miranda rights: new directions for legal and medical decision-making in juvenile courts
- 6 The etiology of antisocial behavior: biopsychosocial risk factors across development
- 7 Substance abuse in youth offenders
- 8 Suicide and delinquent adolescents
- 9 Juvenile sex offenders
- 10 Educational needs of youth in the juvenile justice system
- 11 Science and the juvenile death penalty
- 12 Medical issues regarding incarcerated adolescents
- 13 Mental health screening and assessment in juvenile justice
- 14 Psychological testing in juvenile justice settings
- 15 Psychopharmacology and juvenile delinquency
- 16 Evidence-based treatment for justice-involved youth
- 17 Community alternatives to incarceration
- 18 Innovative problem-solving court models for justice-involved youth
- 19 Ethical issues of youthful offenders: confidentiality; right to receive and to refuse treatment; seclusion and restraint
- 20 Post-adjudicatory assessment of youth
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An overview of child and adolescent mental health needs in the juvenile justice system
- 2 Psychiatric disorders of youth in detention
- 3 Disproportionate minority confinement
- 4 Police interrogation of youth
- 5 Assessing children's competence to stand trial and to waive Miranda rights: new directions for legal and medical decision-making in juvenile courts
- 6 The etiology of antisocial behavior: biopsychosocial risk factors across development
- 7 Substance abuse in youth offenders
- 8 Suicide and delinquent adolescents
- 9 Juvenile sex offenders
- 10 Educational needs of youth in the juvenile justice system
- 11 Science and the juvenile death penalty
- 12 Medical issues regarding incarcerated adolescents
- 13 Mental health screening and assessment in juvenile justice
- 14 Psychological testing in juvenile justice settings
- 15 Psychopharmacology and juvenile delinquency
- 16 Evidence-based treatment for justice-involved youth
- 17 Community alternatives to incarceration
- 18 Innovative problem-solving court models for justice-involved youth
- 19 Ethical issues of youthful offenders: confidentiality; right to receive and to refuse treatment; seclusion and restraint
- 20 Post-adjudicatory assessment of youth
- Index
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- The Mental Health Needs of Young OffendersForging Paths toward Reintegration and Rehabilitation, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007