Part I. Risk Factors -- -- Youth violence : Risk and protective factors / N. Dickon Reppucci, Carrie S. Fried and Melinda G. Schmidt -- Multiple risk factors for multiple problem violent boys / David P. Farrington -- Risk/need assessment and prevention of antisocial development in young people : Basic issues from a perspective of cautionary optimism / Friedrich Lösel -- Are pre and perinatal factors related to the development of criminal offending? / Sheilagh Hodgins, Lynn Kratzer and Thomas F. McNeil -- Behavioral aggression in pre-schoolers : Identification, assessment and understanding / Pratibha N. Reebye -- Child neuropsychiatric disorders : A review of association with dilenquency and substance use / Niklas Långström -- Family impact on youth violence / Vladislav Ruchkin -- Aggressive and violent girls : Prealence, profiles and contributing factors / Marlene Moretti and Candice Odgers -- Neurological aspects of violence, particularly in youth / Anneliese A. Pontius -- Underlying vulnerability influencing outcome factors/behaviors in psychosocial disturbances / Britt af Klinteberg -- Psychopathy in childhood and adolescence : Implications for the assessment and management of multi-problem youths / Gina M. Vincent and Stephen D. Hart -- Delinquency and aggression of school children in relation to maternal age / Jan B. Deijen, Eric Blaauw and Frans Willem Winkel -- -- Part II. Assessment Issues -- -- Review of clinical assessment strategies and instruments for adolescent offenders / Marc Le Blanc -- The risk factor profile instrument : Identifying children at risk for serious and violent dilenquency / Trisha Beuhring -- The Under 12 Outreach Project for antisocial boys : A research based clinical program / Christopher D. Webster, Leena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl -- Monitoring vital signs : Integrating a standardized assessment into Washington State's juvenile justice system / Robert Barnoski -- The development and implementation of the BARO : A new device to detect psychopathology in minors with first police contacts / Theo A.H. Doreleijers and Maarten Spaander -- Towards valid cross-cultural measures of risk / David J. Cooke and Christine Michie.

Part III. Comparative Themes : Selected Legal and Management Issues -- -- The utility of an integrated multi-service instrument within France / Catherine Blatier and Raymond R. Corrado -- The priciples of formulating forensic psychology reports : Concerning minor and juvenile perpetrators of violent criminal acts in Poland / Jozef K. Gierowski and Teresa Jaskiewicz-Obydzinska -- Violent offenders with mental health problems : The Italian youth study / Luca Iani, Gaetano De Leo and Antonella Ciurlia -- Adolescent murderers : A Genoa sample / Giovanni B. Traverso and Monica Bianchi -- Juvenile aggression : A risk factors model of instrumental and reactive violence and ensuing protective intervention programs / Frans Willem Winkel, Eric Blaauw and Ad Kerkhof -- -- Part IV. Risk/Needs Management Instrument : A Conceptual Framework -- -- An introduction to the risk/needs case management instrument for children and youth at risk for violence : The Cracow instrument / Raymond R. Corrado -- A preliminary conceptual framework for the prevention and management of multi-problem you / Candice Odgers, Gina M. Vincent and Raymond R. Corrado.