@article{ref1,
title="The impact of child protective service history on reoffending in a New Mexico juvenile justice population",
journal="Journal of juvenile justice",
year="2015",
author="Dirmyer, Victoria F. and Ortega Courtney, Katherine",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="18-29",
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.   Keywords: child protective services, Kaplan-Meier Survival, juvenile justice, recidivism<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2153-8026",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}