Predicting outcomes for youth transferred to adult court.
Abstract
Extant research regarding juvenile transfer has focused primarily on the negative effects of current policies, with little consistent and rigorous work on the variation among the adolescents transferred to adult court and their later adjustment in the community. Using a sample of 193 transferred youth from Arizona, we consider how certain individual characteristics are related to four post-release outcomes (antisocial activity, re-arrest, re-institutionalization, and gainful activity). We find considerable variability in outcomes, with adjustment significantly and consistently related to certain legal and risk-need factors. These results indicate that some transferred youth may experience negative outcomes, and that refinements to transfer policy may benefit from consideration of these factors in determining which serious adolescent offenders are most appropriate for transfer.
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- Authors
- Schubert, C. A., Mulvey, E. P., Loughran, T. A., Fagan, J., Chassin, L. A., Piquero, A. R., Losoya, S. H., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of South Florida (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Florida State University (US)
- Temple University (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Law and Human Behavior
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 460-475
- ISSN
- 0147-7307 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-661X
- OpenAlex
- W2002728315
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 7.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Law and Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2007-MU-FX-0002)
- National Institute of Justice (2008-IJCX- 0023)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- William Penn Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA019697)
- Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
- Arizona Governor’s Justice Commission
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Keywords
- juvenile transfer to adult court, serious juvenile offenders, post-release outcomes, rearrest, reinstitutionalization, employment, transfer policy, adolescent adjustment, Arizona
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Arizona, Criminal Law, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Juvenile Delinquency, Longitudinal Studies, Male
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