Community cleanup /

"July 1999."

YES, Youth Environmental Service : technical assistance package.

"June 1996."

Early identification of risk factors for parental abduction /

Available via the Internet from the NCJRS web site.

Family life, delinquency, and crime : a policymaker's guide : research summary /

"May 1994."

Addressing confidentiality or records in searches for missing children : final report.

"February 1995."

The youth gangs, drugs, and violence connection /

"January 1999."

National estimates of children missing involuntarily or for benign reasons /

Shipping list no.: 2005-0220-P.

Children abducted by family members : national estimates and characteristics /

Shipping list no. 2003-0019-P.

Diagnostic imaging of child abuse.

"July 1996"--P. [2] of cover.

Annual report to the Governor and General Assembly fiscal year ...

Includes recommendations regarding the state's compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.

Quarterly report to the legislature ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Springfield weed and seed initiative : a process description and evaluation /

At head of title on cover: Research and program evaluation in Illinois: studies on drug abuse and violent crime.

Trends and issues.

"Criminal and Juvenile Justice in Illinois."

Gender differences in the relationship between offending, self-harm and depression in adolescence and young adulthood

Criminal offending and poor mental health are both recognised as important social problems warranting prevention and intervention efforts. Although there is some evidence for comorbidity between these problems, little research has examined the causal relationship between offending and mental health, particularly for young people. The present investigation addresses these issues by using data from the Sibling Study, a longitudinal investigation of delinquency as self-reported by 731 adolescents and young adults in south-east Queensland, Australia. The results suggest that for young women, but not men, offending behaviours (including the use of illicit drugs) lead to increases in self-harm and depression. Conversely, poor mental health, as indicated by having low self-esteem, a poor future outlook, and a belief that life is very confusing, does not influence subsequent levels of offending for either sex. The implications for prevention and intervention are discussed, with emphasis on the need for the criminal justice system to provide mental health services to young female offenders.

Human behaviour modelled as a statistico-deterministic turing machine

'Free will' and its corollary, the concept of individual responsibility are keystones of the justice system. This paper shows that if we accept a physics that disallows time reversal, the concept of 'free will' is undermined by an integrated understanding of the influence of genetics and environment on human behavioural responses. Analysis is undertaken by modelling life as a novel statistico-deterministic version of a Turing machine, i.e. as a series of transitions between states at successive instants of time. Using this model it is proven by induction that the entire course of life is independent of the action of free will. Although determined by prior state, the probability of transitions between states in response to a standard environmental stimulus is not equal to 1 and the transitions may differ quantitatively at the molecular level and qualitatively at the level of the whole organism. Transitions between states correspond to behaviours. It is shown that the behaviour of identical twins (or clones), although determined, would be incompletely predictable and non-identical, creating an illusion of the operation of 'free will'. 'Free will' is a convenient construct for current judicial systems and social control because it allows rationalization of punishment for those whose behaviour falls outside socially defined norms. Indeed, it is conceivable that maintenance of ideas of free will has co-evolved with community morality to reinforce its operation. If the concept is free will is to be maintained it would require revision of our current physical theories.