Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care: Risk Factors for Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.26.2.231
Abstract
In previous research, child maltreatment has been associated with several negative outcomes, including delinquency. This study uses administrative data to examine risk factors, including the severity and chronicity of maltreatment, for juvenile justice involvement among children, ages 7 to 17, who were placed in out-of-home care in Florida (N = 13,212). The results of multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that among specific types of maltreatment, sexual abuse was associated with the risk of faster placement only in a detention center. Additionally, findings from this study suggest that maltreatment chronicity but not maltreatment severity increases the chances of earlier involvement with the juvenile justice system among children who were placed in an out-of-home care. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Violence and Victims, v. 26, issue 2, p. 231-245
Scholar Commons Citation
Yampolskaya, Svetlana; Armstrong, Mary I.; and McNeish, Roxann, "Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care: Risk Factors for Involvement With the Juvenile Justice System" (2011). Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications. 39.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cfs_facpub/39
