Sentences with phrase «juvenile justice institutions»

The high - risk sample for juvenile delinquency was recruited from 38 welfare and juvenile justice institutions from the German speaking part of Switzerland.

It is important to note that in Switzerland, youths can be placed in welfare and juvenile justice institutions because of: delinquent behavior (criminal law measure), youth welfare reasons (civil law measure, e.g., maltreatment, parental psychopathology, prostitution and drug abuse) or other reasons (e.g., their own or parents» choice).

These results are consistent with previous findings of girls in juvenile justice institutions [21] find that at least 80 % of female adolescents treated in juvenile justice institutions experienced one or more traumatic life event.

Hamerlynck and colleagues [21] studied a sample of detained girls aged 12 — 18 years, in Dutch juvenile justice institutions, and found that 21 % of the girls with severe aggression also demonstrated post-traumatic stress symptoms.

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These programs were designed to prevent negative outcomes for some of the highest risk children and adolescents in society, including children in foster care, youth in state mental institutions, and youth in the juvenile justice system.