title: Juvenile delinquency, welfare, justice and therapeutic interventions: a global perspective.
abstract: This review considers juvenile delinquency and justice from an international perspective. Youth crime is a growing concern. Many young offenders are also victims with complex needs, leading to a public health approach that requires a balance of welfare and justice models. However, around the world there are variable and inadequate legal frameworks and a lack of a specialist workforce. The UK and other high-income countries worldwide have established forensic child and adolescent psychiatry, a multifaceted discipline incorporating legal, psychiatric and developmental fields. Its adoption of an evidence-based therapeutic intervention philosophy has been associated with greater reductions in recidivism compared with punitive approaches prevalent in some countries worldwide, and it is therefore a superior approach to dealing with the problem of juvenile delinquency.
authors.affiliation: Imperial College London, London, UK; Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, UK.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, UK.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Greer
authors.affiliation: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Church