1. Overview of European forensic youth care: Towards an integrative mission for prevention and intervention strategies for juvenile offenders
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Klaus Schmeck, Arne Popma, Elena Bulanovaite, Nora Maria Raschle, Tycho J. Dekkers, Theo A. H. Doreleijers, Aurelio Oddo, Thimo M. van der Pol, Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, Heidi Hales, Marco Zanoli, Fleur Souverein, University of Zurich, Souverein, Fleur, Lääketieteen ja terveysteknologian tiedekunta - Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, and Ontwikkelingspsychologie (Psychologie, FMG)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,lcsh:RC435-571 ,Poison control ,Criminology ,Suicide prevention ,03 medical and health sciences ,2738 Psychiatry and Mental Health ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neurologia ja psykiatria - Neurology and psychiatry ,lcsh:Psychiatry ,Forensic psychiatry ,Child and adolescent psychiatry ,medicine ,Juvenile delinquency ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Mission statement ,Justice (ethics) ,2735 Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,10093 Institute of Psychology ,05 social sciences ,lcsh:RJ1-570 ,lcsh:Pediatrics ,Mental health ,030227 psychiatry ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Commentary ,Psychology ,150 Psychology ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,10190 Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development - Abstract
All over Europe youth delinquency is decreasing; our understanding of the factors related to juvenile delinquency and the characteristics of effective forensic youth care has increased substantially. However, effective prevention and intervention strategies are not always employed due to financial, demographical and socio-political challenges countries face, while the burden of mental health in juvenile justice populations is high. With this commentary, we highlight the importance of international collaboration to set out a direction to improve forensic youth care, to bundle our strengths and overcome our challenges. It is a continuation of the course that was set out by Doreleijers and Fegert (Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 5:20, 2011), in their editorial they highlighted the importance of collaboration and presented an overview of the state of the art on forensic youth care in eight European countries (and Russia). With this manuscript, we present an overview of statistics in juvenile justice of all European countries and present an integrated mission statement for forensic youth care, which was formulated in a keynote debate at the 6th biennial congress of the European Association for Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology and other involved professions (EFCAP).
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- 2019