@article{ref1,
title="Juvenile delinquency, welfare, justice and therapeutic interventions: a global perspective",
journal="BJPsych bulletin",
year="2017",
author="Young, Susan and Greer, Ben and Church, Richard",
volume="41",
number="1",
pages="21-29",
abstract="This review considers juvenile delinquency and justice from an international perspective. Youth crime is a growing concern. Many young offenders are also victims with complex needs, leading to a public health approach that requires a balance of welfare and justice models. However, around the world there are variable and inadequate legal frameworks and a lack of a specialist workforce. The UK and other high-income countries worldwide have established forensic child and adolescent psychiatry, a multifaceted discipline incorporating legal, psychiatric and developmental fields. Its adoption of an evidence-based therapeutic intervention philosophy has been associated with greater reductions in recidivism compared with punitive approaches prevalent in some countries worldwide, and it is therefore a superior approach to dealing with the problem of juvenile delinquency.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2056-4694",
doi="10.1192/pb.bp.115.052274",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.052274"
}