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Citation |
Dirmyer VF, Ortega Courtney K. J. Juv. Justice 2015; 4(1): 18-29. |
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(Copyright © 2015, In Public Domain (U.S. Department of Justice OJJDP), Publisher CSR) |
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Abstract |
Juvenile offending is a serious public health concern. One of the objectives for Healthy People 2020 (www.healthypeople.gov) is adolescent health; specifically, the need to improve the development, health, safety, and well-being of adolescents. Studies have shown an association between child abuse and later juvenile delinquency. Yet little is known about the continuation of juvenile justice (JJ) involvement beyond a youth's first contact with the JJ system. This study used a Kaplan-Meier survival approach to measure the time between petitioned charges for a New Mexico JJ population between January 2002 and March 2013. At 12 months after the first petitioned charge, 67% of youth with no history of child protective services (PS) involvement did not reoffend compared to 54% of youth with a history of substantiated PS involvement. At 36 months, 59% of youth with no history of PS involvement did not reoffend compared to 39% with substantiated claims. Females were two times more likely to have a history of substantiated PS involvement compared to males (OR = 2.14; 95% CI: 2.00-2.28). African American youth (OR = 1.24; 95% CI: 1.05-1.46) and youth who identified with two or more race/ethnicities (OR = 1.85; 95% CI: 1.58-2.17) had higher odds of PS involvement than non-Hispanic White youth. These results indicate that many of the New Mexico youth involved with juvenile justice services also were involved with child protective services. Language: en |