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Progress and perils in the juvenile justice and mental health movement.

Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (impact factor: 0.93). 02/2007; 35(2):158-67. pp.158-67
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ABSTRACT The juvenile justice system in the United States is experiencing a social movement aimed at responding to the mental and emotional problems of delinquent youths. Ironically, this movement arose in the wake of a decade of reform in juvenile justice that had set aside the system's 100-year tradition of rehabilitation for delinquents in the interests of their punishment and a primary emphasis on public safety. This article describes the recent juvenile justice and mental health movement, discusses the circumstances that motivated it, and provides examples of its progress. Now that the movement has taken hold, however, its future is threatened by several unintended consequences of the motives and strategies of those who succeeded in promoting the movement. Those potential perils are described with an eye to reducing their impact, thereby sustaining the movement and its potentially positive effects.

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Keywords

circumstances
 
delinquents
 
emotional problems
 
interests
 
juvenile justice
 
juvenile justice system
 
mental health movement
 
positive effects
 
potential perils
 
public safety
 
recent juvenile justice
 
social movement
 
system's 100-year tradition
 
unintended consequences
 
United States
 

Thomas Grisso