The authors include forensic psychiatrists, forensic psychologists, psychotherapists, and criminologists. They examine the emotional impact of violence on children, the characteristics of violent juvenile offenders, and the psychological assessment and monitoring of violent children and adolescents. Additional papers focus on psychosocial approaches to understanding and preventing violence in young people, the causes of sex offenses in children and adolescence, violence in adolescence, and a case involving a stabbing of a best friend by a 16-year-old male. Further papers examine racial violence among youth, the impact of television on children and youth, the risks and dangers involved in youth people's leisure time and activities, group therapy with violent children and adolescents, and the relationship of the police to violent children and adolescents. Tables, figure, footnotes, author biographies, index, and approximately 500 references