Shared residential placement for child welfare and juvenile justice youth: current treatment needs and risk of adult criminal conviction

• Main Authors: Lena Jäggi (Author), Marc Schmid (Author), David Bürgin (Author), Nadine Saladin (Author), Alexander Grob (Author), Cyril Boonmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Although child welfare youth and juvenile offenders in residential care have different judicial placement reasons, there seems to be overlap in their demographic and psychosocial backgrounds. This could raise the question whether these adolescents should be placed in strictly sep...