Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Recidivism in Young Offenders

Several studies report that incarcerated young offenders show a high rate of psychiatric disorders whereas associations between specific psychiatric disorders and recidivism remain unknown. The Brazilian legal system has created a unique opportunity for the study of this issue when consider young of...

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Main Authors: Álvaro Machado Dias, Antonio de Pádua Serafim, Daniel Martins de Barros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2014-01-01
Series:Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722014000200317&lng=en&tlng=en