Functional Impairment In Delinquent Youth

December 3, 2013
In December 2013, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) released a bulletin that is part of a series that presents the results of the Northwestern Juvenile Project--a longitudinal study of youth detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, IL. The authors present the results of their examination of youth’s functional impairment as assessed three (3) years after their release from detention. The authors analyzed results in each of the eight domains: school/work; home; commmunity; behavior toward others; moods/emotions; self-harm; substance use; and thinking. Topics covered in . . .