Treatment, Services and Intervention Programs for Child Delinquents
Youth who engage in delinquent behaviors early are more likely to become serious, chronic and violent offenders in adolescence -- but interventions are more likely to succeed with younger youth, according to this Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report, Child Delinquency: Early Intervention and Prevention.
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http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ 