Citation

Gunter-Justice TD, Ott DA. J. Forensic Sci. 1997; 42(6): 1104-1106.

Affiliation

William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, Univ of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9397554

Abstract

Demographic differences between adolescents referred for psychiatric services by the Family Court and by facility staff at a state-run juvenile justice evaluation center are examined. Those groups are then compared to the facility's general population. It is concluded that race, gender, age, and judicial discretion are the factors that distinguish court-referred adolescents from their counterparts referred by facility staff and in the general population.

Language: en