Abstract
Guest columnist, DIANE H. SCHETKY, M.D., practices child, adolescent, and adult forensic psychiatry in Rockport, Maine, and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine at Maine Medical Center. She has published extensively in child forensic psychiatry, recently co-editing Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry, and is the winner of the 2003 Manfred Guttmacher Award for the book’s outstanding contribution to the forensic psychiatry literature. This guest column by Dr. Schetky provides an overview of legal and psychiatric issues related to allowing juvenile defendants to stand trial as adults (referred to here as “waiver”) and offers a commentary concerning the effectiveness of the waiver concept.
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