Clinical Approaches to Working with Young Offenders
- John Wiley & Sons, 1996
- 260
This volume places the discussion of best practice with offenders within both a rigorous scientific context and its institutional and social environment. Preface, Young Offenders: A Clinical Approach, The Research Base for Working with Young Offenders, The Psychology of Criminal Conduct and Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention, Individual and Family and Peer Factors in the Development of Delinquency, Working with Young Offenders: The Impact of Meta-Analyses, Setting for Working with Young Offenders, Working in Institutions, Diversion Programs, Working with Offenders, Sociomoral Group Treatment for Young Offenders, Aggression Replacement Training: Methods and Outcome, Empirically Based Behavioral Treatment Programs for Families with Adolescents who Are at Risk for Failure, Working with Offences, Adolescent Sex Offenders, Adolescent Fireseters, Substance Use and Delinquency, Concluding Comments, Author and Subject Index.