Double Jeopardy
Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders
With a Foreword by Franklin E. Zimring
200 pages
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1 table
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6 x 9
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© 2004
In the twenty-first-century world of juvenile justice policy and practice, nearly everyone agrees that one of the most pressing issues facing the nation's juvenile courts is their proper response to delinquent youths with mental disorders. Recent research indicates that about two-thirds of adolescent offenders in juvenile justice facilities meet the criteria for one or more mental disorders. What are the obligations of our juvenile justice system, then, as the caretaker for delinquent youth with such disabilities? How do issues of adolescent development create special challenges in determining the court's proper response to delinquents with special mental health needs? Thomas Grisso considers these questions while offering new information to assist the juvenile justice system in its responses to the needs of our children.
Double Jeopardy considers the newest data on the nature of youths' mental disorders—their relationships to delinquency, the values and limits of methods to treat them, and the common patterns of adolescent offending. That information is used to chart a rational course for fulfilling the juvenile justice system's duty—as a custodian of children in need of health care, as a legal system promoting fairness in youth adjudication, and as a protector of public safety—to respond to delinquent youths' mental disorders. Moreover, Double Jeopardy provides a scientific yet practical foundation for lawmakers, judges, attorneys, and mental health care professionals, as well as researchers who must fill the knowledge gaps that limit the juvenile justice system's abilities to meet youths' mental health needs.
Double Jeopardy considers the newest data on the nature of youths' mental disorders—their relationships to delinquency, the values and limits of methods to treat them, and the common patterns of adolescent offending. That information is used to chart a rational course for fulfilling the juvenile justice system's duty—as a custodian of children in need of health care, as a legal system promoting fairness in youth adjudication, and as a protector of public safety—to respond to delinquent youths' mental disorders. Moreover, Double Jeopardy provides a scientific yet practical foundation for lawmakers, judges, attorneys, and mental health care professionals, as well as researchers who must fill the knowledge gaps that limit the juvenile justice system's abilities to meet youths' mental health needs.
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"The book is effective and authoritative and directed precisely where it is needed most: the plight of children with bona fide mental illness who face the gauntlet of the juvenile and adult justice systems. . . . I strongly recommend this book to mental health professionals and juvenile justice policy makers at all levels."
"Grisso, steering away from offering a comprehensive set of standards or strategies, masterfully integrates a prodigious array of material from a virtual encyclopedic command of the substantive issues, knowledge, and facts relating to three sociolegal contexts. His measured writing flows precisely. . . . For professionals, policy makers, and students in the area of juvenile justice and mental health, this book should be required reading. Also, it merits high marks as a valuable reference work."--James W. Callicutt, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
"This book is of interest to anyone who is interested in the mental health of young offenders, in the criminal justice process as it affects adolescents, or who is looking for some informed debate on risk (of violence to others) assessment in adolescents. The issues have been well brought together."
“Double Jeopardy is an extraordinarily lucid and scholarly contribution to the multi-disciplinary effort necessary to meet the needs of mentally ill juvenile offenders. It fills an empty niche that desperately needed to be filled. As such, this book is essential reading for all of those working in juvenile justice including judges, advocates, defense attorneys, prosecutors, forensic child psychologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers. Well written, compassionate, and wise, Thomas Grisso’s work translates the latest relevant science on mental disorders so that it can be understood and put to practice by those who care about the lives of mentally ill offenders caught up in the justice system.”—David Arredondo, M.D., Founder and Medical Director, Office of Child Development, Neuropsychiatry and Mental Health
“Thomas Grisso has the authority of a scholar working at the height of his powers. With penetrating insights expressed in uncluttered prose, Double Jeopardy illuminates the way forward for both clinicians and lawyers when they confront offenders who are not just very young, but also very disordered. A tour de force if I’ve ever read one.”—John Monahan, Ph.D., University of Virginia School of Law
“A giant step forward has been taken in our ability to respond to adolescent offenders with mental disorders as a result of Thomas Grisso’s Double Jeopardy. This book systematically reviews, dissects, and makes sense out of what are currently disparate bodies of information dealing with difficult legal issues, assessments of treatment interventions, complex research findings, and confusing policy questions. Grisso is probably the only scholar able to combine the breadth of knowledge, the passion for these youth and the clarity of vision needed to write this work. In Double Jeopardy, he has provided a road map and guidance to the entire field for our continuing efforts in the future to fulfill our obligation to society and to these youths.”—Joseph J. Cocozza, Ph.D., Director, National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
"Grisso's discussion of mental disorder among youth offenders proves to be incisive and informative, accessible to a wide range of professionals, academics and students. . . . Overall, this is an excellent piece of work that convincingly combines problems encountered by both the mental health and kjuvenile justice system."
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I: Examining Realities
1. Reasons for Concern about Mental Disorders of Adolescent Offenders
2. Defining Mental Disorders in Adolescents
3. Assessing Mental Disorders in Adolescents
4. The Consequences of Mental Disorders in Adolescents
Part II: Discovering the Obligations
5. Refining the Custodial Obligation to Provide Treatment
6. Locating the Due Process Obligation
7. Fulfilling the Public Safety Obligation
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Part I: Examining Realities
1. Reasons for Concern about Mental Disorders of Adolescent Offenders
2. Defining Mental Disorders in Adolescents
3. Assessing Mental Disorders in Adolescents
4. The Consequences of Mental Disorders in Adolescents
Part II: Discovering the Obligations
5. Refining the Custodial Obligation to Provide Treatment
6. Locating the Due Process Obligation
7. Fulfilling the Public Safety Obligation
References
Index
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