Empirical risk factors for delinquency and best treatments: Where do we go from here?

Psychological Reports

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 279-308

  Zagar, Robert John ^a   Busch, Kenneth G ^b   Hughes, John Russell ^c  

^a Consultant to Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County ^*  (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAMILY THERAPY; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAMILY THERAPY; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 66849117179     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.104.1.279-308     Document Type: Article

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