Multi-problem violent youth : a foundation for comparative research on needs, interventions, and outcomes / edited by Raymond R. Corrado ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multi-problem Violent Youth: a Foundation for Comparative Research on Needs, Interventions, and Outcomes, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.

Corrado, Raymond R.

Series:

NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences ; Series I, v. 324.

NATO science series. Series I, Life and behavioural sciences, 1566-7693 ; v. 324

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquents--Congresses.

Juvenile delinquents.

Violence in adolescence--Congresses.

Violence in adolescence.

Violence in children--Congresses.

Violence in children.

At-risk youth--Psychology--Congresses.

At-risk youth.

Deviant behavior--Research--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Deviant behavior.

Juvenile delinquency--Prevention--Congresses.

Juvenile delinquency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the research and theoretical bases for the creation of a risk-needs management instrument for violent adolescents and young adults. The proposed instrument includes risk indicators beginning pre-natally, pari-natally, at-birth, then through infancy, early childhood, middle childhood and, finally, adolescence. The main purpose of the instrument is to assist case managers responsible for providing positive interventions to families and children, at all childhood and adolescent life stages, in order to reduce the likelihood of violent behaviors. The case intervention strategy i

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Introduction""; ""Contents""; ""Part I. Risk Factors""; ""Youth Violence: Risk and Protective Factors""; ""Multiple Risk Factors for Multiple Problem Violent Boys""; ""Risk/Need Assessment and Prevention of Antisocial Development in Young People: Basic Issues from a Perspective of Cautionary Optimism""; ""Are Pre and Perinatal Factors Related to the Development of Criminal Offending?""; ""Behavioral Aggression in Pre-schoolers: Identification, Assessment and Understanding""

""Child Neurospsychiatric Disorders: A Review of Associations with Delinquency and Substance Use""""Family Impact on Youth Violence""; ""Aggressive and Violent Girls: Prevalence, Profiles and Contributing Factors""; ""Neurological Aspects of Violence, Particularly in Youth""; ""Underlying Vulnerability Influencing Outcome Factors/Behaviors in Psychosocial Disturbances""; ""Psychopathy in Childhood and Adolescence: Implications for the Assessment and Management of Multi-Problem Youths""; ""Delinquency and Aggression of School Children in Relation to Maternal Age""

""Part II. Assessment Issues""""Review of Clinical Assessment Strategies and Instruments for Adolescent Offenders""; ""The Risk Factor Profile Instrument: Identifying Children at Risk for Serious and Violent Delinquency""; ""The Under 12 Outreach Project for Antisocial Boys: A Research Based Clinical Program""; ""Monitoring Vital Signs: Integrating a Standardized Assessment into Washington State's Juvenile Justice System""; ""The Development and Implementation of the BARO: A New Device to Detect Psychopathology in Minors with First Police Contacts""

""Towards Valid Cross-cultural Measures of Risk""""Part III. Comparative Themes: Selected Legal and Management Issues""; ""The Utility of an Integrated Multi-Service Instrument within France""; ""The Principles of Formulating Forensic Psychology Reports Concerning Minor and Juvenile Perpetrators of Violent Criminal Acts in Poland""; ""Violent Offenders with Mental Health Problems: The Italian Youth Study""; ""Adolescent Murderers: A Genoa Sample""; ""Juvenile Aggression: A Risk Factors Model of Instrumental and Reactive Violence and Ensuing Protective Intervention Programs""

""Part IV. Risk/Needs Management Instrument: A Conceptual Framework""""An Introduction to the Risk/Needs Case Management Instrument for Children and Youth at Risk for Violence: The Cracow Instrument""; ""A Preliminary Conceptual Framework for the Prevention and Management of Multi-Problem Youth""; ""Author Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

"This book is the first product of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled Multi-problem violent youth ... " funded by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and held in Cracow, Poland"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610505326

1-60129-445-X

600-00-0493-1

1-280-50532-X

OCLC:

437171325