Lia Ahonen: 2 books
Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior...
Violence and Mental Illness
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2019
This brief summarizes the existing body of knowledge about the links between mental illness and violence, recommends improved methods to deal with potentially violent individuals with mental illness, and identifies pressing implementation and research needs. In public perception and media reports,...