Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders (Executive Summary)

Youth advocates have called on the juvenile justice system to do more to meet the mental health needs of the young people in its care. But what can we reasonably expect the system to do? In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders, Thomas Grisso examines this question, along with the complex issues that underlie it: Who are these doubly-imperiled youths? What do we know about their mental health needs? What are the system’s obligations to them? How can we identify them as they enter the system and respond to their needs in a way that also meets the nation’s objectives for the juvenile justice system?