Citation

DeLisi M, Hochstetler A, Jones-Johnson G, Caudill JW, Marquart JW. Youth Violence Juv. Justice 2011; 9(3): 207-221.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1541204010396107

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In the juvenile justice literature, deep-end interventions such as commitment to a confinement facility are reserved for the most severe delinquents but unfortunately have been shown to have negative consequences. The current study repurposes juvenile confinement within a criminal career context to empirically examine its role in homicide offending based on data from a sample of 445 male, adult habitual criminals. Poisson regression models indicated that juvenile confinement-- measured both dimensionally and categorically--predicted murder arrests despite controls for juvenile homicide offending, juvenile violent delinquency, juvenile felony adjudications, juvenile non-compliance violations, juvenile arrest charges, onset, age, three racial/ethnic classifications, career arrests, career violent index arrests, and career property index arrests. Receiver operating characteristics--area under the curve (ROC-AUC) graphs showed that juvenile confinement predicted murder significantly but modestly better than chance although career violent offending was the strongest predictor of murder perpetration.