Juvenile homicide

Author(s)

• Benedek, Elissa P.
• Cornell, Dewey G.

Bibliographic Information

Juvenile homicide

edited by Elissa P. Benedek, Dewey G. Cornell

（Clinical practice, no. 7）

American Psychiatric Press, c1989

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Through its discussion of research findings, theory, and actual case examples, this book illustrates clinical and forensic issues encountered by clinicians who must deal with difficult cases involving juvenile homicide.

Table of Contents

Clinical Issues. Causes of juvenile homicide: a review of the literature. Clinical presentations of homicidal adolescents. A typology of juvenile homicide offenders. The adolescent witness to homicide. Forensic and Dispositional Issues. Clinicolegal issues for the forensic examiner. Competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility in the juvenile court. Legal outcome of juveniles charged with homicide. Juvenile homicide: a study in legal ambivalence. Treatment of the homicidal adolescent.

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Details

• NCID: BA22765526
• ISBN:
  • 0880481455
• LCCN: 88007682
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, DC
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 247 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RJ506.H65
  • DC19 : 614/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Juvenile homicide -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Forensic psychiatry
  • LCSH : Adolescent psychotherapy
  • LCSH : Juvenile homicide -- United States
  • MESH : Child Psychiatry
  • MESH : Criminal Psychology
  • MESH : Homicide
  • MESH : Juvenile Delinquency
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07020145