Juvenile Offenders And Mental Illness
Subtitle: I Know Why the Caged Bird Cries
Publisher: Haworth Social Work
Published: October 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780789030375
Subjects: Social Work; Mental health services; Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Mental health; Juvenile delinquents; Mentally ill offenders
First sentence: Policy makers, parents, police, and practitioners have become increasingly concerned about the occurrence, co-occurrence and impact of mental health conditions in adjudicated and incarcerated youth.