Youth justice
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Kindergarten conduct problems are associated with monetized outcomes in adolescence and adulthood
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Participants were from two multisite longitudinal studies: Fast Track and the Child Development Project. Parents and teachers reported on kindergarten conduct problems, administrative and national database records yielded indexes of criminal offending, and participants self-reported their government and medical service use. Outcomes were assigned costs, and significant associations were adjusted for inflation to determine USD 2020 costs.’ Natalie Goulter (pic) et al.
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Is formal processing through the juvenile justice system linked with an increased risk of reoffending?
Data from a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry support that formally processing adolescents through the juvenile justice system after their first arrest for a mild-to-moderate crime is linked with an increased risk of reoffending.
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Increasing knife crime: Aggressive Adolescents or Traumatized Teenagers?
Georgia Harvey discusses the link between anxiety, trauma and knife crime in young people.
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‘Forensics in Children and Adolescents’ – Foreword from Guest Editor Dr Mark Lovell
Welcome to this edition of The Bridge which focuses on ‘Forensics in Children and Adolescents’.
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Language impairment needs more recognition in the juvenile justice system
Language and communication impairments in adolescents in custody is much higher than in the general population, estimates range from 60-90% compared to 7-12%. A study from Nathan Hughes and colleagues has investigated co-morbidity of language difficulties in a cohort of 93 young male offenders (15-18 years) held in a secure custodial facility in the UK.
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