This article begins with a consideration of the interconnected troubles and needs that
research has documented for girls who become enmeshed in the juvenile justice system …

The current study longitudinally examines the effects of child maltreatment, parenting, and
disadvantaged neighborhood on victimization, delinquency, and well-being via running …

Although research finds high rates of risky sexual and drug related behavior among
homeless young people, little research had examined how the characteristics of their social …

Adolescents from a variety of backgrounds are among the growing number of homeless
Americans. Although they lack maturity and various skills, they manage to survive in …

This study examines how substance use is associated with the health and safety of
homeless youth using cross-sectional, self-report data from 285 homeless adolescents. Path …

Research has substantiated that homeless and runaway youth are at high risk for offending
and deviant behavior. Although gender, abuse, and deviant peers have been implicated in …

The literature generally defines street-involved youth as those young people 25 years of age
or younger who are homeless or under-housed; have been forced to leave their families of …

This dissertation discusses the diagnoses of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and
Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Complex PTSD), specifically as these pertain to …

The experience of how youth get off the street is scarcely documented. The present study
explored what helped and hindered youth in their experience as they tried to get off the …

Diverse finite-difference schemes for solving pricing problems with Lévy underliers have
been used in the literature. Invariably, the integral and diffusive terms are treated …