Bücher von Robert D. Hoge

This book constitutes the first comprehensive guide to the psychological assessment of adolescents. Throughout, the emphasis is on standardized instruments with known reliability and validity parameters.

The advances in our understanding of the nature, correlates, and causes of juvenile crime are accompanied by progress in analyzing the treatment ofyouth in juvenile justice systems and in developing and evaluating alternative approaches to treatment.

The advances in our understanding of the nature, correlates, and causes of juvenile crime are accompanied by progress in analyzing the treatment ofyouth in juvenile justice systems and in developing and evaluating alternative approaches to treatment.

Our society's preoccupation with crime and fear of crime appears to have shifted its focus to the juvenile offender. Andrews make a restrained, rational, and ultimately persuasive argu ment for the use of standardized psychological assessments in the effective management of youth within juvenile justice systems.