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• Title:Double jeopardy : adolescent offenders with mental disorders / Thomas Grisso ; foreword by Franklin E. Zimring.
  
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• Author/Creator:Grisso, Thomas.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: WS463 .G69 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Juvenile delinquents--Mental health--United States.
  Juvenile delinquents--Rehabilitation--United States.
  Juvenile delinquents--Mental health services--United States.
  
• Description:viii, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Adolescent development and legal policy.
  
• Summary:"In the twenty-first-century world of juvenile justice policy and practice, nearly everyone agrees that one of the most pressing issues facing the nation's juvenile courts is their proper response to delinquent youths with mental disorders. Recent research indicates that about two-thirds of adolescent offenders in juvenile justice facilities meet the criteria for one or more mental disorders. What are the obligations of our juvenile justice system, then, as the caretaker for delinquent youth with such disabilities? How do issues of adolescent development create special challenges in determining the court's proper response to delinquents which special mental health needs? Thomas Grisso considers these questions while offering new information to assist the juvenile justice system in its responses to the needs of our children." "Double Jeopardy considers the newest data on the nature of youths' mental disorders - their relationships to delinquency, the values and limits of methods to treat them, and the common patterns of adolescent offending. That information is used to chart a rational course for fulfilling the juvenile justice system's duty - as a custodian of children in need of health care, as a legal system promoting fairness in youth adjudication, and as a protector of public safety - to respond to delinquent youths' mental disorders. Moreover, Double Jeopardy provides a scientific yet practical foundation for lawmakers, judges, attorneys, and mental health care professionals, as well as researchers who must fill the knowledge gaps that limit the juvenile justice system's abilities to meet youths' mental health needs."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-235) and index.
  
• ISBN:0226309142 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Examining realities. Reasons for concern about mental disorders of adolescent offenders. Defining mental disorders in adolescents. Assessing mental disorders of adolescents. The consequences of mental disorders in adolescence
  Pt. II. Discovering the obligations. Refining the custodial obligation to provide treatment. Locating the due process obligation. Pt. I. Examining realities
  Ch. 1. Reasons for concern about mental disorders of adolescent offenders
  Ch. 2. Defining mental disorders in adolescents
  Ch. 3. Assessing mental disorders in adolescents
  Ch. 4. The consequences of mental disorders in adolescence
  Pt. II. Discovering the obligations
  Ch. 5. Refining the custodial obligation to provide treatment
  Ch. 6. Locating the due process obligation
  Ch. 7. Fulfilling the public safety obligation.