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Multiple service system involvement and later offending behavior: Implications for prevention and early intervention

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  • Bright, C.L.
  • Jonson-Reid, M.

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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.

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  • Bright, C.L. & Jonson-Reid, M., 2015. "Multiple service system involvement and later offending behavior: Implications for prevention and early intervention," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 105(7), pages 1358-1364.
  • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.302508_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302508
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    1. Waldo, Jennifer A. & Henderson, Craig & Dauber, Sarah & Hogue, Aaron, 2021. "Differences in treatment trajectories between two profiles of adolescent systems involvement," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    2. Elizabeth Weigensberg & Derekh Cornwell & Lindsey Leininger & Matthew Stagner & Sarah LeBarron & Jonathan Gellar & Sophie MacIntyre & Richard Chapman & Erin J. Maher & Peter J. Pecora & Kirk O’Brien, "undated". "Superutilization of Child Welfare, Medicaid, and Other Services," Mathematica Policy Research Reports caaff77fa722452aa241ace4b, Mathematica Policy Research.

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