ABSTRACT
This volume concerns tomorrow’s criminals. Recent research has substantially expanded our knowledge of the manifestations as well as the correlates and causes of disruptive and delinquent behaviours in children and adolescents. This knowledge has important implications for treatment and prevention and can be crucial for optimising the economic and social consequences of decisions by local and national policy and decision makers. However, as this volume has highlighted, application of a large variety of consistent research findings for prevention and intervention (that is, treatment) in countries grappling with the issue of young delinquents is still scarce and incidental. This holds true for the Netherlands and many European countries as well.
