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Serious Juvenile Offenders: Do Mental Health Problems Elevate Risk?

10/5/11 Reclaiming Futures—The general adolescent population is estimated to have a rate of 9% to 21% in occurrence of diagnosable psychiatric disorders. In comparison, researchers have established that the juvenile offender population has a disproportionately high rate of mental health problems, with estimates suggesting it is as high as 50% to 70%. Additionally, a majority of the diagnosable youth in the juvenile system have a co-occurring substance-use disorder.

Available online

http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/

Author(s)

Carol Schubert, Edward Mulvey, and Amanda Alderfer

Date

10/5/11

Source

Reclaiming Futures

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