Multiple Service System Involvement and Later Offending Behavior: Implications for Prevention and Early Intervention

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Public Health
• Personal Author:
  Bright, Charlotte Lyn ; Jonson-Reid, Melissa
• Description:
  Objectives
  
  We investigated patterns of childhood and adolescent experiences that correspond to later justice system entry, including persistence into adulthood, and explored whether timing of potential supports to the child or onset of family poverty, according to developmental periods and gender, would distinguish among latent classes.
  
  Methods
  
  We constructed a database containing records for 8587 youths from a Midwestern metropolitan region, born between 1982 and 1991, with outcomes. We used data from multiple publicly funded systems (child welfare, income maintenance, juvenile and criminal justice, mental health, Medicaid, vital statistics). We applied a latent class analysis and interpreted a 7-class model.
  
  Results
  
  Classes with higher rates of offending persisting into adulthood were characterized by involvement with multiple publicly funded systems in childhood and adolescence, with the exception of 1 less-urban, predominantly female class that had similarly high system involvement coupled with lower rates of offending.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Poverty and maltreatment appear to play a critical role in offending trajectories. Identifying risk factors that cluster together may help program and intervention staff best target those most in need of more intensive intervention.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Child Child Abuse Child Welfare Criminal Law Female Humans Juvenile Delinquency Male Mental Health Services Poverty Racial Groups Risk Factors Sex Factors Social Welfare

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• Source:
  Am J Public Health. 105(7):1358-1364.
• Pubmed ID:
  25973802
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4458173
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CE001190/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 MH 061733-04 A1/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 MH061733/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Midwestern United States
• Volume:
  105
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:485799abe4cac2e91990fcbf0dedcd4b8be8bbb180a8eb814ddcbba08e477ee9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32583/cdc_32583_DS1.pdf
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