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Mental health screening, assessment and subsequent treatment is increasingly becoming necessary and fundamental in juvenile justice settings. Recent systematic reviews have reported an increase in the population of children with mental disorders (Beandry et al., 2021). Conversely, many children pass through the justice system without being assessed...
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... study sought to find out if there are any standardised assessment tools used by the agencies. In table 3, the distribution of responses as provided by each agency is presented. Table 3 indicates that police, probation, children and prison officers used some form of assessment. ...
