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Youth Sexual Exploitation in Nigeria: Pathway Influencers and Crossroad Solutions for an Undercarpet Menace
Purpose of ReviewThis study highlights the prevalence of sexual exploitation of young people in Nigeria, as well as its contributing factors, impact,...
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Treatment for problematic substance use in Nordic youth: a narrative review from the viewpoint of social services
BackgroundYouth mortality from drugs is worryingly increasing in Europe. Little is so far known about what substance use services are available to...
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The Hamburg Youth Prevention Project (HYPP) for adolescents with sexual interest in children
Paedophilic sexual interest is often linked to an emergence during adolescence, but concrete empirical knowledge on its development and early viable...
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Oral language skills, callous and unemotional traits and high-risk patterns of youth offending
Extensive research has associated adolescent delinquent behavior with verbal deficits, yet for some subgroups of youth offenders better verbal...
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Working to Improve Youth-Police Interactions: A Pilot Evaluation of a Program for Young People
In addition to training law enforcement personnel in strategies to promote positive youth-police interactions, equip** youth with similar knowledge...
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Cognitive and affective perspective taking amongst adolescent offenders with variants of callous–unemotional traits
Evidence suggests that associations between antisocial behaviour, callous–unemotional (CU) traits and cognitive empathy (e.g. perspective taking)...
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A health promotion intervention to address youth violence among students in a technical college in Sri Lanka guided by the participatory action research approach: a study protocol
BackgroundYouth violence is a global public health issue and the highest rates are reported in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Higher rates...
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The Relevance of Prior Offending to Risk and Need in Youth Family Violence: A Population Cohort Study
PurposeThe present study examines differences in the characteristics and recidivism risk of young people reported to police for family violence (FV)...
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Comparing organization-focused and state-focused financing strategies on provider-level reach of a youth substance use treatment model: a mixed-method study
BackgroundFinancial barriers in substance use disorder service systems have limited the widespread adoption—i.e., provider-level reach—of...
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Delinquent Behavior and Dating Violence among Latinx Youth: A Test of Gover’s Theoretical Model of Violent Victimization
Almost two decades ago, Gover articulated a theoretical model suggesting that the relationship between social ties and negative emotions on dating...
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Offender Rehabilitation: The Middle Way of Maimonides to Mental and Social Health
Traditional religious and spiritual texts offer a surprising wealth of relevant theoretical and practical knowledge about human behavior. This...
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Influence of various factors on the legal outcome of cases of child abuse—experiences gathered at an interdisciplinary forensic examination center in Vienna, Austria
Background and objectiveTo improve the currently low conviction rate in cases of child abuse a forensic examination center for children and...
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Advancing Knowledge about Youth Violence: Child Maltreatment, Bullying, Dating Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence
Violence, in all its different manifestations, is a universal problem affecting individuals of different age groups, of different ethnic and...
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Juvenile Justice-Based Interdisciplinary Collective Care: An Innovative Approach
Mental health concerns among juvenile-justice-involved youth (JJIY) continue to be a major health crisis in the United States (US). While scholarship...
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Identifying Sexual Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships: Turning Points and Meta-Narratives
PurposeYouth intimate partner violence (YIPV) is an under-researched topic within the field of domestic violence. This is particularly true of...
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Secure attachment predicts lower societal cost amongst severely antisocial adolescents
BackgroundSocial and economic costs associated with antisocial behaviour are well-established, but little is known about the potential costs...
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Interpersonal Victimization of Latino Youth: a Latent Class Analysis
This study identifies latent classes of interpersonal victimization among Latino youth using a national sample and then compares these latent classes...
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“We should be resourcing their liberation:” a qualitative formative study to guide introduction of a systems engineering intervention at a King County, WA juvenile detention center clinic
BackgroundThere are ongoing efforts to eliminate juvenile detention in King County, WA. An essential element of this work is effectively addressing...
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Firearm Availability and Parricide
The association between firearm ownership and homicide has been shown to be specifically related to homicides involving intimate partners and other...
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An Introduction to the Special Issue: Family Violence and Youth Violence – Examining the Connections from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (an Extension of Anna Costanza Baldry’s Legacy)
Family violence and youth violence have received a significant amount of research attention over the years. A large body of research findings has...