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Serious juvenile offenders: classification into subgroups based on static and dynamic charateristics

Overview of attention for article published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, December 2017
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Title
Serious juvenile offenders: classification into subgroups based on static and dynamic charateristics
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13034-017-0201-4
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Sanne L. Hillege, Eddy F. J. M. Brand, Eva A. Mulder, Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren, Lieke van Domburgh

Abstract

The population in juvenile justice institutions is heterogeneous, as juveniles display a large variety of individual, psychological and social problems. This variety of risk factors and personal characteristics complicates treatment planning. Insight into subgroups and specific profiles of problems in serious juvenile offenders is helpful in identifying important treatment indicators for each subgroup of serious juvenile offenders. To identify subgroups with combined offender characteristics, cluster-analyses were performed on data of 2010 adolescents from all juvenile justice institutions in the Netherlands. The study included a wide spectrum of static and dynamic offender characteristics and was a replication of a previous study, in order to replicate and validate the identified subgroups. To identify the subgroups that are most useful in clinical practice, different numbers of subgroup-solutions were presented to clinicians. Combining both good statistical fit and clinical relevance resulted in seven subgroups. Most subgroups resemble the subgroups found in the previous study and one extra subgroups was identified. Subgroups were named after their own identifying characteristics: (1) sexual problems, (2) antisocial identity and mental health problems, (3) lack of empathy and conscience, (4) flat profile, (5) family problems, (6) substance use problems, and (7) sexual, cognitive and social problems. Subgroups of offenders as identified seem rather stable. Therefore risk factor scores can help to identify characteristics of serious juvenile offenders, which can be used in clinical practice to adjust treatment to the specific risk and needs of each subgroup.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 86 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 10%
Student > Master 9 10%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 33 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 8%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Decision Sciences 1 1%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 37 43%
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