TY - JOUR PY - 2011// TI - Procedures for preventing juvenile violence in Switzerland: The Zurich model JO - New directions for youth development A1 - Urbaniok, Frank A1 - Rossegger, Astrid A1 - Endrass, Jerome A1 - Moskvitin, Konstantin A1 - Pierce, Christine Schnyder A1 - Laubacher, Arja SP - 79 EP - 87 VL - 2011 IS - 129 N2 - The Swiss legal system places strong emphasis on risk assessment and treatment of potentially violent offenders. Especially after the 2001 Zug massacre, there is close cooperation between the judicial and mental health systems to prevent violence through early detection and intervention. A case study of a risk management program for a dangerous seventeen-year-old delinquent youth illustrates this approach.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1533-8916 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/yd.388 ID - ref1 ER -