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Think twice before calling the police on your ‘misbehaving’ teen
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30147
Subject(s) - juvenile , psychology , criminology , economic justice , law , political science , biology , genetics
Desperate parents sometimes call the police on their own children — not because they want them to be arrested or go to jail, but because they don't know what else to do. Unfortunately, what often happens is a downward spiral, in which young people dig a deeper and deeper hole for themselves, and parents find they have lost their child to the juvenile justice system.