Understanding Health Risks and Protective Factors in Youth Delinquency
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 772
Special Issue Editors
Interests: child psychology; forensic psychology; neuroscience and neuropsychology; positive child / youth development; resilience; adverse childhood experiences; brain and cognitive development; developmental psychopathology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will bring together empirical investigations, review articles, and commentaries that address issues of health (in a very broad sense) in juvenile delinquency. The focus of the Special Issue will be on the implications of delinquent behavior on health, development, and well-being, but papers do not need to be specific to youth involved with the juvenile justice system. Relevant topics relevant include, but are not limited to, youth substance use and abuse; health consequences of youth-perpetrated violence and violence exposure; social determinants of health in youth at risk for delinquency; health and delinquency implications of bullying and victimization in children and adolescents; the impacts of trauma and child adversity on delinquency and health outcomes; resilience, prosocial development, and psychosocial and biological protective factors; animal models of aggression and impulsivity with implications for health outcomes; genetic investigations of mental and physical health outcomes within populations at risk for justice-system involvement; brain correlates shared between health risk behaviors and delinquency; physical and mental health outcomes in delinquent or justice-involved youth; trans-diagnostic factors in psychopathology in youth at risk for delinquency; and shared correlates of delinquency and health disparities.
Dr. Adam Schmidt
Dr. April G. Thomas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- justice-involved youth
- juvenile delinquency
- juvenile justice
- resilience
- health disparities
- chronic health conditions
- protective factors
- developmental psychopathology
- developmental neuroscience
- child psychology
- forensic psychology
- developmental mechanisms
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