Juvenile Psychiatry and the Law

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Juvenile Crime

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Historical Challenge of Juvenile Criminality

      • Jacques M. Quen

      Pages 3-11

   3. Some Criminogenic Traits of Offenders

      • Richard J. Herrnstein

      Pages 13-28

   4. Biological Causes of Delinquency

      • Richard A. Ratner

      Pages 29-44

   5. A Psychodynamic Approach to Understanding Juvenile Criminality

      • Richard C. Marohn

      Pages 45-63

   6. Childhood Identification and Prophylaxis of Antisocial Personality Disorder

      • Lewis Bloomingdale, Eileen Bloomingdale

      Pages 65-82

3. Sexual Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Psychiatric Aspects of Incest Involving Juveniles

      • Sheldon Travin

      Pages 85-105

   3. Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse and Forensic Psychiatrists

      • Alan J. Tuckman

      Pages 107-118

   4. Special Considerations in the Psychiatric Evaluation of Sexual Offenders against Minors

      • Fred S. Berlin

      Pages 119-132

   5. Diagnosis and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders

      • Judith V. Becker, Richard J. Kavoussi

      Pages 133-143

   6. The United States Age-of-Consent Laws Governing the Sexual Conduct of Minors

      • Judianne Densen-Gerber, John R. Dugan Jr.

      Pages 145-180

4. Clinical Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Assessment of Juvenile Psychopathology for Legal Purposes

      • Richard Rosner

      Pages 183-197

   3. Emotional, Cognitive, and Moral Developmental Considerations in Interviews of Adolescents for Forensic Purposes

      • Robert Weinstock

      Pages 199-217

   4. Adolescent Psychological Development

      • Everett Dulit

      Pages 219-236

   5. Substance Abuse among Juveniles

      • Heidi M. Petersen, Robert B. Millman

      Pages 237-256

   6. Issues in the Forensic Assessment of the Black Adolescent

      • Richard A. Ellison

      Pages 257-270

   7. A Reintroduction to Pediatric Medicine for Forensic Psychiatrists

      • Sarla Inamdar

      Pages 271-288

I am not sure when a series of volumes becomes an "institution"; this is the fourth annual volume of Critical Issues in American Psychiatry and the Law, and each has been an extraordinary summary of important forensic topics. This book makes the point that the interface of psychiatry and law is not merely a legal one, but has a great deal to do with clinical issues such as diagnosis and treatment. Children and adolescents are not adults. This may come as something of a shock to those who proselytize for equal rights for children, and to those adults (including some psychiatrists, attorneys, and judges) who advocate giving the child adult choices and/or responsibilities. Children differ from adults in many ways. The specialist in child or adoles­ cent psychiatry knows not only that one must attend to special social and family issues for juveniles, but that juveniles are more complex internally as well. They attempt to survive in the world while rapidly growing and learning, usually with physically and emotionally immature resources. They have had few years in which to develop experience, and do not have the psyche with which to integrate that experience in ways one would expect of a mature adult. Sometimes this frightens the patient, as in the case of a physically large teen­ ager whose impulse control is impaired. Sometimes it is frustrating, as in the case of a healthy child unable to escape from a dysfunctioning family. It is always confusing, and usually uncomfortable.

• child
• diagnosis
• emotion
• psychiatry

• Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, USA

  Richard Rosner

• American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, USA

  Richard Rosner

• American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, USA

  Richard Rosner

• Forensic Psychiatry Clinic for the New York Criminal and Supreme Courts (First Judicial Department), New York, USA

  Richard Rosner

• Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA

  Harold I. Schwartz

• Psychiatric Outpatient Services, USA

  Harold I. Schwartz

• Program in Psychiatry and Law, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA

  Harold I. Schwartz

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