Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.

Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D., is the author of Before It's Too Late: Why Some Kids Get into Trouble and What You Can Do About It. He is a clinical psychologist who has spent thirty years as a researcher, clinician, consultant, and expert witness specializing in criminal behavior. For the last eighteen years, he has served as an indepedent evaluator in adversarial child custody disputes. He has been appointed to three presidential task forces on law enforcement, victims' rights, and a drug-free America. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Oprah Show, NBC's Today show, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, and numerous other national venues. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Books
	Before It's Too Late: Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble and What Parents Can Do About It If you sense that your child is seriously troubled, you may feel bewildered, helpless, ineffective. How can you stop your child from throwing away his or her life? How can you avoid thinking that you've failed as a parent? In this newly revised and expand
	Inside the Criminal Mind IN NEARLY A HALF-CENTURY, little has changed in terms of deeply ingrained beliefs about the causes of crime. In the classic, still often performed, 1957 musical West Side Story, Stephen Sondheim parodied what then was the current thinking about juvenile
	In the Best Interest of the Child: How to Protect Your Child from the Pain of Your Divorce During warfare over child custody, were you to ask the parents about their motives, each would contend that he or she is acting in their child's best interest. This assertion likely would be followed by withering criticism of the other parent.