APA handbook of psychology and juvenile justice /

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Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2016.
Description:xxvi, 735 pages.
Language:English
Series:APA handbooks in psychology series
APA handbooks in psychology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588494
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Varying Form of Title:Handbook of psychology and juvenile justice
Other authors / contributors:Heilbrun, Kirk, editor.
DeMatteo, David, 1972- editor.
Goldstein, Naomi E. Sevin, editor.
ISBN:9781433819674
1433819678
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also issued in print.
Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.
Summary:"The APA Handbook of Psychology and Juvenile Justice consolidates and advances knowledge about the legal, scientific, and applied foundations of the juvenile justice system. In addition to an overview of the area, it contains chapters in the following sections: Relevant Law (focusing on important legislation and on U.S. Supreme Court decisions from Kent and Gault to Eddings, Roper, Graham, and Miller-Jackson, and on the relevant legal theory of preventive justice for adolescents); Human Development (describing research on adolescent development and brain development as they apply to behavior in the juvenile justice context); Patterns of Offending (including evidence about offending in juveniles and the persistence vs. desistance into adulthood); Risk Factors for Offending (evidence about risk factors for juvenile offending including Risk-Need-Responsivity theory, juvenile psychopathy, substance abuse, gangs, and trauma/adverse experience, as well as threat assessment and bullying prevention in schools); Forensic Assessment (assessing risk, needs/amenability, and sophistication-maturity as part of legal decisions on commitment, transfer, and reverse transfer, as well as legal decisions on Miranda waiver capacity and competence to stand trial); Interventions (evidence on risk-reducing interventions, both in the community and in residential placement, including for specialized offending of sexual offenders) and; Training and Ethics (including the updated MacArthur curriculum on adolescents in the juvenile justice system and an analysis of the ethical issues particular to juvenile justice)"--Publicity materials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
Other form:Original
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James Baldwin is quoted as saying, "For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become." How true. But what does one do with children (young persons) who violate laws and find themselves in the justice system? This question is the heart of yet another fine title from the American Psychological Association, Handbook of Psychology and Juvenile Justice. Most of those involved in analyzing or working within the system understand that juveniles should be adjudicated differently from adults--if for no other reason than the hope for rehabilitation. But that does not always translate into understanding what to do with juvenile offenders. The 31 chapters in this handbook address the myriad issues one must understand to truly comprehend the complexity of juvenile justice. Dealing with topics from human development to risk factors for offending, interventions, and costs, the handbook paints a clear, comprehensive picture of the juvenile justice system, from its strengths to areas needing improvement. Required reading for those working with juveniles, in an effort either to avoid offenses (proactive) or to rehabilitate those who already have offended. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals. --Randall E. Osborne, Texas State University

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