Justice System Involvement Into Young Adulthood

Comparison of Adolescent Girls in the Public Mental Health System and in the General Population

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ID11030751
AuthorsMaryann Davis (0000-0002-6453-5202, All the authors are with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.), William H Fisher (All the authors are with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.), Bernice Gershenson (All the authors are with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.), Albert J Grudzinskas (All the authors are with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.), Steven M Banks (All the authors are with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.)
Year2009
Volume99
Issue2
Pages234-236
Publication date2009-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2008.141135
PMID19059845
PMCIDPMC2622777
OpenAlexW2085781358
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

We compared arrest onset and frequency and types of charges between a statewide cohort of adolescent girls in the public mental health system and girls of the same age in the general population to investigate important differences that could have policy or intervention implications. Girls in the public mental health system were arrested at earlier ages more frequently and were charged with more serious offenses than were girls in the general population. Our results strongly argue for cooperation between the public mental health and justice systems to provide mental health and offender rehabilitation in their shared population

Cohort · Economic Justice · Environmental health · Intervention (counseling) · Mental health · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Public health · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

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