Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Keywords
brief intervention for truant youth, truant youth delinquency-crime
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2015.1103344
Abstract
The issue of delinquency among truant youths is insufficiently documented in the literature. There is a need to elucidate this issue, and assess the efficacy of interventions to reduce this problem behavior. The present National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study addressed this gap by examining the impact of a Brief Intervention (BI), originally designed to address youth substance use, on their delinquent behavior over an 18-month follow-up period (for self-reported delinquency) and a 24-month follow-up period (for official record delinquency). A number of significant BI intervention effects with sizable effect sizes were found, as well as a number of marginally significant BI effects. In particular, significant reductions in arrest charges at 24-month follow-up for youths receiving BI services compared to controls were among the key findings of this study. Service delivery implications and directions for future analyses are discussed.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, v. 25, issue 5, p. 458-479
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse on 12 May 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2015.1103344.
Scholar Commons Citation
Dembo, Richard; Schmeidler, James; Wareham, Jennifer; Briones-Robinson, Rhissa; Winters, Ken C.; and Ungaro, Rocio, "Impact of Brief Intervention Services on Drug-Using Truant Youths' Self-Reported Delinquency and Arrest Charges: A Longitudinal Study" (2016). Criminology Faculty Publications. 6.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cjp_facpub/6
