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Dual System Youth: At the Intersection of Child Maltreatment and Delinquency

December 2020

Across the country, child welfare and juvenile justice systems now recognize that youth involved in both systems (i.e., dual system youth) are a vulnerable population who often go unrecognized because of challenges in information-sharing and cross system collaboration. In light of these challenges, national incidence rates of dual system youth are not known.

Testosterone and Aggression in Children

Journal
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Date Published
December 1995
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)