Barnert, E. S., Perry, R., Shetgiri, R., Steers, N., Dudovitz, R., Heard-Garris, N. J., & Chung, P. J. (2021). Adolescent protective and risk factors for incarceration through early adulthood. Journal of Child and Family Studies, p. 30, 1428–1440.
The study by Barnert et al. (2021) explored the impact of adolescent risk and protective factors on incarceration outcomes in the United States, with a focus on the health-related social consequences of incarceration (Barnert et al., 2021). The findings underline the potential of tailored educational interventions to mitigate the risk of incarceration, emphasizing the need for a complete understanding of both risk and protective factors for effective preventive strategies.
Jacobs, L. A., Ashcraft, L. E., Sewall, C. J., Folb, B. L., & Mair, C. (2020). Ecologies of juvenile reoffending: A systematic review of risk factors. Journal of Criminal Justice, p. 66, 101638.
The study by Jacobs et al. (2020) addressed the lack of consensus on the ecological factors influencing juvenile reoffending and presented a systematic review of 27 quantitative studies. While concentrated disadvantage emerges as a predictor of rearrest, the study emphasizes the inconsistent and limited nature of findings. The authors concluded that more broad research, sampling from unexamined perspectives and employing robust causal implication approaches, is essential to elucidate the ecology-reoffending relationship and inform effective recidivism reduction interventions.
Kennedy, T. D., Edmonds, W. A., Millen, D. H., & Detullio, D. (2019). Chronic juvenile offenders: Exploring risk factor models of recidivism. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 17(2), 174–193.
This study, conducted by Kennedy et al. (2019), aimed to explore the relationship between various risk factors associated with youthful offenders and rates of recidivism, utilizing Poisson regression models. The sample comprised 564 male and female juvenile offenders referred to the Juvenile Court Assessment Center (JCAC) in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Miami-Dade County (Kennedy et al., 2019). The study concludes with the final model incorporating all variables across the six domains, indicating a good fit and prompting discussions on the implications of these findings.
Meza, J. I., Bondoc, C., Keshav, N., Bosco, J., & Barnert, E. (2023, June). Exploring the link between neighbourhood violence and health among African-American and Latinx youth returning home after incarceration. In Child & Youth Care Forum (Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 533-558). New York: Springer US.
The study by Meza et al. (2023) investigates the disproportionate exposure of African-American and Latinx youth to neighbourhood violence and their overrepresentation in the U.S. juvenile justice system. Findings from a sample of 50 returning youth expose that professed neighbourhood violence is linked to adverse health outcomes such as asthma diagnosis, doctor commendations for medical follow-up, professed stress, and adverse childhood experiences (Meza et al., 2023). The study concludes by highlighting the significance of family-centred interventions to improve the reentry process and ensure access to evidence-based treatments, with a specific emphasis on family telehealth substance use interventions.
Miller, W. T., Campbell, C. A., Papp, J., & Ruhland, E. (2022). The contribution of static and dynamic factors to recidivism prediction for Black and White youth offenders. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 66(16), 1779-1795.
Miller et al. (2022) focused on addressing concerns of potential racial bias in criminogenic risk assessments, specifically examining the role of static factors like criminal history. The study adopted a quantitative design using a sample of 1,270 youth offenders from a Midwestern county (Miller et al., 2022). Employing logistic regression, the study discloses that while the static domain meaningfully predicts recidivism for White adolescents, it does not for Black youth.
Quinn, C. R., Beer, O. W., Boyd, D. T., Tirmazi, T., Nebbitt, V., & Joe, S. (2022). An assessment of the role of parental incarceration and substance misuse in suicidal planning of African American youth and young adults. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 9(3), 1062-1074.
The study by Quinn et al. (2022) investigates the escalating suicide rates among youth, with a specific focus on the increasing likelihood of suicide among African-American youth in the USA. Findings reveal that males, particularly those with mothers incarcerated or fathers with alcohol problems, are suggestively more likely to have devised a suicide plan (Quinn et al., 2022). The study suggests implications for health prevention and intervention efforts, emphasizing the need for family-centered, culturally personalized, and evidence-based strategies to mitigate suicide-related risks among African-American youth and young adults.
Robertson, A. A., Fang, Z., Weiland, D., Joe, G., Gardner, S., Dembo, R., … & Elkington, K. (2020). Recidivism among justice-involved youth: Findings from JJ-TRIALS. Criminal justice and behavior, 47(9), 1059–1078.
The study by Robertson et al. (2020) using data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) cooperative agreement addresses the significant concern of recidivism in juvenile justice (Robertson et al., 2020). The findings reveal substantial variations in recidivism rates across different sites and complicated relationships between individual-level variables and a county-level concentrated disadvantage measure, highlighting the necessity of contextually informed multilevel approaches in the study of juvenile recidivism.
References
Barnert, E. S., Perry, R., Shetgiri, R., Steers, N., Dudovitz, R., Heard-Garris, N. J., … & Chung, P. J. (2021). Adolescent protective and risk factors for incarceration through early adulthood. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 1428–1440.
Jacobs, L. A., Ashcraft, L. E., Sewall, C. J., Folb, B. L., & Mair, C. (2020). Ecologies of juvenile reoffending: A systematic review of risk factors. Journal of Criminal Justice, p. 66, 101638.
Kennedy, T. D., Edmonds, W. A., Millen, D. H., & Detullio, D. (2019). Chronic juvenile offenders: Exploring risk factor models of recidivism. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 17(2), 174–193.
Meza, J. I., Bondoc, C., Keshav, N., Bosco, J., & Barnert, E. (2023, June). Exploring the link between neighbourhood violence and health among African-American and Latinx youth returning home after incarceration. In Child & Youth Care Forum (Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 533-558). New York: Springer US.
Miller, W. T., Campbell, C. A., Papp, J., & Ruhland, E. (2022). The contribution of static and dynamic factors to recidivism prediction for Black and White youth offenders. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 66(16), 1779-1795.
Quinn, C. R., Beer, O. W., Boyd, D. T., Tirmazi, T., Nebbitt, V., & Joe, S. (2022). An assessment of the role of parental incarceration and substance misuse in suicidal planning of African American youth and young adults. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 9(3), 1062-1074.
Robertson, A. A., Fang, Z., Weiland, D., Joe, G., Gardner, S., Dembo, R., … & Elkington, K. (2020). Recidivism among justice-involved youth: Findings from JJ-TRIALS. Criminal justice and behavior, 47(9), 1059–1078.
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