Juvenile Justice System and Mental Health Policy

Youth with Mental Health Disorders in the Juvenile Justice System: Results from a Multi-State Prevalence Study

Over the last decade, concern has escalated over the number of youth with significant mental health needs involved with the juvenile justice system. The presence of these youth in the juvenile justice system poses significant challenges to the juvenile justice and mental health systems both at the policy and program level and is seen as presenting a major crisis for the juvenile justice system ...

Juvenile mental health courts and therapeutic jurisprudence: facing the challenges posed by youth with mental disabilities in the juvenile justice system.

Adolescent offenders with mental disorders.

Thomas Grisso points out that youth with mental disorders make up a significant subgroup of youth who appear in U.S. juvenile courts. And he notes that juvenile justice systems today are struggling to determine how best to respond to those youths' needs, both to safeguard their own welfare and to reduce re-offending and its consequences for the community. In this article, Grisso examines resear...

Rehabilitation and Juvenile Justice Policy: A Mathematical Modeling Approach

Youth in the juvenile justice system have diverse needs and problems. Several potentially effective behavioral, rehabilitative interventions have been developed, and evaluations of those programs have been conducted. Little is known, however, about how those programs might be integrated into a juvenile justice system, and a range of system-level questions remain unanswered. Using the tools of o...

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Objective: At national, state, and local levels, there is increasing recognition of the importance of identifying and responding to the mental health needs of youths in the juvenile justice system, as policymakers and practitioners struggle to find ways to address causes and correlates of juvenile crime and delinquency. The proposed guidelines for mental health assessment provide explicit infor...

Intersection between Mental Health and the Juvenile Justice System

Prepared by Development Services Group, Inc., under cooperative agreement number 2013–JF–FX–K002. Intersection between Mental Health and the Juvenile Justice System Mental health disorders are prevalent among youths in the juvenile justice system. A meta-analysis by Vincent and colleagues (2008) suggested that at some juvenile justice contact points, as many as 70 percent of youths have a diagn...