Some evidence of race bias in the diagnosis and treatment of the juvenile offender.
Clinical and epidemiological evidence is presented indicating that many more black delinquent children and their families fail to receive needed psychiatric and medical services than do white delinquents. Explanations and implications of the reluctance or inability of white mental health professionals to diagnose serious psychopathology in the black delinquent population are explored.
D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011287:Prejudice; D011599:Psychopathology; D012561:Schizophrenia, Childhood / Q000175:diagnosis