Mental health professionals seeing youth for possible transfer to adult criminal court are asked to evaluate dangerousness. This evaluation is
A) easy because of the large body of knowledge we have about predicting dangerousness in adult psychiatric patients
B) easy because the same factors that predict dangerousness in adults will be valid for predicting dangerousness in adolescent females
C) difficult because the research base studying dangerousness in adolescents is small and not very definitive
D) difficult because most adolescents have hormonal driven behavior
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Q40: Psychologists who study adolescents find that
A) adolescents
Q41: Legislatures set the age of juvenile jurisdiction
A)
Q42: If under state law a juvenile can
Q43: With the coming of transfer laws,
A) a
Q44: Before making a transfer decision, a judge
Q46: Research evaluating juveniles understanding of their rights
Q47: If a juvenile is tried as an
Q48: According to research on adolescence,
A) Almost all
Q49: Restorative justice refers to reforms in the
Q50: To achieve the rehabilitation goals of juvenile
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