Unit.D.5.8. Young Offenders

The required readings for this unit are:

Australia	Required Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Required Reading(s)

Dolan, M., & Smith, C. (2001). Juvenile homicide

offenders: 10 years' experience of an adolescent forensic psychiatry service. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 12(2), 313-329. Retrieved December 20, 2002, from Academic Search Premier daatbase: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5180664&db=aph Note:"Psychosocial characteristics were retrospectively studied in 46 juvenile perpetrators of homicide who had been referred to an adolescent forensic service in a 10-year period.

 

United States	Required Reading(s)

McCrone, S., & Shelton, D. (2001). An overview of

forensic psychiatric care of the adolescent. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 22(2), 125-135. Retrieved December 12, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4140477&db=aph The field of forensic psychiatric nursing is a relatively recent addition to the specialty of psychiatric nursing. This paper provides an overview of forensic psychiatric care of adolescent patients. It describes the juvenile justice system, identifies various theoretical models useful for understanding youthful offenders, and explores risk and protective factors. Psychiatric comorbidities and treatment considerations also are presented.

 

Databases
For the full text article online, sleuth the 'University of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':

Directions:

• Select - Indexes and abstracts with links to full text articles
• Select - Academic Search Premier or Expanded Academic ASAP
• Select - Connect
• Fill in User ID and Pin
• Fill in search words: young and offender

 

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Unit.D.5.8. Young Offenders

The 'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:

Australia	Recommended Reading(s)

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International	Recommended Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Recommended Reading(s)

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United States	Recommended Reading(s)

Shelton, D. (2002). Failure of mental health policy-

incarcerated children and adolescents. Pediatric Nursing, 28(3), 278-281. Retrieved July 22, 2002 from ProQuest database. "The difficulty surrounding mental health treatment of juvenile offenders is often a struggle to balance the overall social need for security with the needs of the individual. Shelton discusses the disparities in accessing treatment for juveniles and review key legislation that addresses child mental health needs" (Shelton, 2002, p. 278).

 

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Additional references for this unit can be found in 'forensic references' of the forensic sourcebooks.

• Sleuth 'forensic reference' database for:
  • young - offender

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic References.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/references

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Video's recommended for this unit are:

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Unit.D.5.8. Young Offenders

The required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:

Australia	Resources (Web)

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Canada	Resources (Web)

Dell, C.A. (1999). Young offender legislation in Canada,

Forum on Corrections Research, 11(2), 47-50. http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca Note the recent changes to the young offenders act.

Department of Justice Canada. (2002). Young

Offender Act. (R.S.1985 c. Y-1). Retrieved August 1, 2002, http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/Y-1/

Department of Justice Canada. (2002). Canada's Youth

Criminal Justice Act. Retrieved August 1, 2002, http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub/ycja/youth.html

Sinclair, R.L. & Dell, C.A. (1999). Recent trends in youth

crime. Forum on Corrections Research, 11(2), 39-42. http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca Note the types of youth crime that are increasing.

 

International	Resources (Web)

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United Kingdom	Resources (Web)

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United States	Resources (Web)

Burgess, A. W., & Dowdell, E. B. (2002). Forensic

Nursing and Violent Schoolchildren. Nursing Spectrum Career Fitness online. Education CE's self study Modules. Note: The goal of this program is to acquaint nurses with the specialty of forensic nursing and to describe how to use homicide classifications to identify violent youths.

Lotke, E. (1997). Youth homicide: Keeping a

perspective on how many children kill. [The study is part of a Symposium Issue on Youth Violence published in Valparaiso Law Review, 31(2), Spring, 1997] Retrieved December 22, 2002, from http://www.igc.org/ncia/casey.html Note the difference in states for the definition of ages of young offenders.

 

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For additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.

• young - offenders

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic Websites.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/websites

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