Salekin presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with an examination of the way in which psychologists influence the assessment and treatment of juvenile offenders in the criminal justice system. The author has organized the main body of his text into ten chapters, covering legal contexts, juvenile characteristics, the political and social climate, and transfer, forensic mental health concepts, the empirical foundations and limits of juvenile forensic evaluation, and a variety of other related subjects. Randall T. Salekin is a faculty member of the University of Alabama. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)