RT Article
T1 Juvenile delinquency, welfare, justice and therapeutic interventions: a global perspective
JF BJPsych bulletin
A1 Church, R
A2 Young, SJ
A2 Greer, B
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866343653
AB 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
DO 10.1192/pb.bp.115.052274