Juvenile Delinquency, Welfare, Justice and Therapeutic Interventions: a Global Perspective

Overview

Journal BJPsych Bull

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2017 Feb 11

PMID 28184313

Citations 8

Authors

Susan Young

Ben Greer

Richard Church

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Abstract

This review considers juvenile delinquency and justice from an international perspective. Youth crime is a growing concern. Many young offenders are also victims with complex needs, leading to a public health approach that requires a balance of welfare and justice models. However, around the world there are variable and inadequate legal frameworks and a lack of a specialist workforce. The UK and other high-income countries worldwide have established forensic child and adolescent psychiatry, a multifaceted discipline incorporating legal, psychiatric and developmental fields. Its adoption of an evidence-based therapeutic intervention philosophy has been associated with greater reductions in recidivism compared with punitive approaches prevalent in some countries worldwide, and it is therefore a superior approach to dealing with the problem of juvenile delinquency.

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