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Behavioral Health and the Juvenile Justice System

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This chapter describes a case study conducted within an innovative juvenile assessment facility that examined the relationships among depression, age, race/ethnicity, age at first arrest, drug involvement, and sexual behaviors among youth in the criminal justice system. After a thorough discussion of the results, implications for larger services and practices are presented.

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  • 11 October 2019

    1. The original version of the opening page of chapter 8 and contributors section in FM were inadvertently published with incorrect affiliation (city) information of author “Ralph J. DiClemente”. This has been updated as “New York, NY, USA”.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for the support of the Florida Department of Children and Families and the Central Florida Behavioral Care Network and thank Ms. Julie Krupa for helping in preparing the tables for this manuscript and editing the references.

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  1. Criminology Department, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Richard Dembo

  2. Agency for Community Treatment Services, Inc., Tampa, FL, USA

    Jessica Faber, Jennifer Cristiano & Asha Terminello

  3. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph J. DiClemente

  4. New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Ralph J. DiClemente

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Dembo, R., Faber, J., Cristiano, J., DiClemente, R.J., Terminello, A. (2020). Behavioral Health and the Juvenile Justice System. In: Levin, B.L., Hanson, A. (eds) Foundations of Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18435-3_8

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