Assessing the Youthful Offender: Issues and Techniques (Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Library)

by D.A. Andrews (Author), Robert D. Hoge (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $105.13

  Our society's preoccupation with crime and fear of crime appears to have shifted its focus to the juvenile offender. Andrews make a restrained, rational, and ultimately persuasive argu- ment for the use of standardized psychological assessments in the effective management of youth within juvenile justice systems.