People with schizophrenia are at increased risk, as compared to the general population, to
acquire convictions for violent crimes and homicide. They also show elevated levels of …

Exceptional learners is the term used in the United States to refer to students with disabilities
(as well as those who are gifted and talented). The majority of students with disabilities have …

Increasing arrest rates for girls and women have been documented both nationally and
internationally and have propelled the development of promising theories of female …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It
covers theoretical and methodological foundations and examines the characteristics …

Girls and women represent a minority of forensic mental health and prison populations.
However, studies worldwide suggest that there has been a steady increase in the number of …

Introduction Youth of color (eg, Black/African American and Latinx/Hispanic) are
overrepresented in the juvenile justice system and experience greater health disparities …

The current study proposes a heuristic model for classification of female offenders into
groups based on key variables relevant to women's backgrounds and programming needs …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a potentially important, yet understudied, mental
disorder to consider in models of criminal recidivism. The present study sought to address …

The current work aimed to analyse the prospective effects of parenting practices on
adolescent problematic behaviour taking into account the mediation effects of deviant …