Michael G. Vaughn - Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency and Health

The Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency and Health presents state-of-the-art research and theorizing on the intersections between health, delinquency, and the juvenile justice system. Organized into three partsTheoretical and Empirical Foundations; Behavioral, Mental, and Physical Health Conditions; and Prevention, Policy, and Health Promotion Systemsit is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind, featuring contributions from scholars from multiple nations and global regions.

A growing number of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from criminology and criminal justice, social work, medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and other health science disciplines engage with marginalized adolescent populations who are at elevated risk for violence and delinquency, alcohol and other drug use, health and mental health problems, and other difficulties directly related to public safety and well-being. These risk factors often lead to short-term (e.g., detention, juvenile residential treatment facilities) and long-term (e.g., prison, parole) contact with the criminal justice system. As these fields increasingly overlap, the distinctions between them are blurred. Sound decision-making in the juvenile justice system depends on adequate research and policy at the intersection of delinquency and health.

This volume represents an agenda-setting scholarly resource for the expansion of research and policy-making across the international delinquency and health continuum, and will be an essential resource for all who study or work in the field.

Michael G. Vaughn, PhD, is Professor in the School of Social Work, College for Public Health and Social Justice, at Saint Louis University where he also is the founder and Director of the Health Criminology Research Consortium. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Society for Social Work and Research. Professor Vaughn is an internationally recognized scientist who has published more than 400 scholarly works.

Christopher P. Salas-Wright, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Boston University School of Social Work and a Research Fellow with the National Hispanic Science Networks (NHSN) Early Stage Career Mentoring for NIDA Research program. He is also a holder of an NIH (K01) early career award. Since 2012, Dr. Salas-Wright has authored more than 125 scholarly publications.

Dylan B. Jackson, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice (College of Public Policy) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and an Associate of UTSAs Institute for Health Disparities Research. As a developmental and health criminologist, Dr. Jacksons research is integrative, bridging empirical and theoretical developments from multiple social and health science fields.

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Names: Vaughn, Michael G., author. | Salas-Wright, Christopher P., author. | Jackson, Dylan, author.

Title: Routledge international handbook of delinquency and health / Michael G. Vaughn, Christopher P. Salas-Wright & Dylan B. Jackson.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019014159 (print) | LCCN 2019016464 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429289194 (Ebook) | ISBN 9780367256920 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429289194 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Juvenile justice, Administration of. | Juvenile delinquency. | Discrimination in juvenile justice administration.

Classification: LCC HV9069 (ebook) | LCC HV9069 .V378 2020 (print) | DDC 364.36dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014159

ISBN: 978-0-367-25692-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-28919-4 (ebk)

A growing number of researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers from criminology and criminal justice, social work, medicine, psychiatry and psychology, and other health science disciplines engage with marginalized adolescent populations who are at elevated risk for violence and delinquency, alcohol and drug use, health and mental health problems, and other difficulties directly related to public safety and well-being. The life-course risk factors experienced often lead to short-term (e.g., detention, juvenile residential treatment facilities) and long-term (e.g., prison, parole) contact with the criminal justice system. As the fields of health and criminology increasingly overlap, the distinctions between the research foci are blurred. Sound decision-making in the juvenile justice system depends on adequate research and policy at the intersection of delinquency and health. Juvenile justice populations often have extensive health needs including chronic disease, notable mental health and substance use disorders, and educational and behavioral rehabilitation needs. Many of these health conditions have deep causal roots which are also shared with the behaviors that have let to justice-system involvement.

Our goal with this volume is to present the state-of-the-art research and theorizing on the intersections between health, delinquency, and the juvenile justice system. To our knowledge, this volume represents the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind, and includes contributions from scholars from multiple nations and global regions. Our hope was to begin to call attention to these research intersections and provide an agenda-setting scholarly resource for the expansion of research and policy-making across the international delinquency and health continuum.

The volume is divided into three parts that collectively span the terrain of health and its intersection with delinquency and the juvenile justice system. Part I, Theoretical and Empirical Foundations, examines core theoretical/conceptual issues and major empirical findings at the intersection of health and delinquency research including the key relationships between health nascent health criminology and traditional criminological theorizing, research on health disparities, the life course, nutrition, health behavior and temperament theories, stress mechanisms, adverse childhood experiences, and health consequences of incarceration for families. Next, Part II, Behavioral, Mental, and Physical Health Conditions, includes chapters on traumatic brain injury, sleep, psychopathy and public health, substance use and its comorbidity with depression, victimization, and lead poisoning and quantitative genetics. This section essentially examines the behavioral health, mental health, and physical health conditions among at-risk populations that are on life-course pathways to delinquency, or who are already juvenile offenders at risk for future contact with the criminal justice system. Finally, Part III, Prevention, Policy, and Health Promotion Systems, involves the application of prevention science over the early sections of the life course, health policy matters, and coverage of health promotion systems in and applied to the juvenile justice system. More specifically, this final section includes chapters on community level prevention, treatment utilization, occupational therapy, the use of restorative justice in schools, employment of qualitative methods, and delinquency and health in Latin American and Australia. Finally, a brief chapter on future directions is included to highlight some missing gaps and identify areas where these exists some unique research opportunities.