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2005

Legal Studies

Theses Digitization Project

Imprisonment

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Treatment Of Mentally Ill Juvenile Offenders In The Criminal Justice System, Robin Michelle Atlas Jan 2005

Treatment Of Mentally Ill Juvenile Offenders In The Criminal Justice System, Robin Michelle Atlas

Theses Digitization Project

Mentally ill juveniles who are incarcerated in correctional facilities receive minimal or no treatment services. The research in this thesis determines that mentally ill juvenile offenders receive inadequate treatment. It also determined that juvenile correctional officers as well as others in the criminal justice system are not trained properly to deal with mentally ill juveniles.