Mental health and violent youth
Subtitle: a developmental/lifecourse perspective
By: Denise Paquette Boots.
Series: Criminal justice : recent scholarship; Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.; Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781593322311
Subjects: Problem youth -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Longitudinal studies; Problem youth -- Mental health -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Longitudinal studies; Violence in adolescence -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Longitudinal studies
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Violence and chronic offending as a social phenomenon; title: Exploring the relationship between childhood mental health problems and violent behaviors; title: Developmental modeling of DSM-oriented problems and serious offending behaviors in youth; title: Findings regarding youth violence and property crime; title: Implications and conclusions.