Associations Between Traumatic Experiences and Mental Health Risk Profiles in Youth with Justice System Involvement

IF 1.5 1区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI:10.1177/15412040241298282

Jeremiah W. Jaggers, Caitlin Lau, Whitney Howey, Patricia K. Kerig

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Abstract

Research has shown that focusing on patterns across concurrent mental health problems may increase accuracy and treatment efficacy, potentially reducing further justice system involvement. This is critical given that over one-third of girls and two-thirds of boys exhibit significant mental health problems fifteen years after release from detention. The purpose of this study was to identify mental health risk profiles of justice-involved youth. Secondarily, the differentiating impact of trauma and race on those groups was examined. Latent profile analysis was used to identify mental health risk profiles among boys ( n = 3550) and girls ( n = 1212) involved in the juvenile justice system. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the impact of trauma exposure and race on class membership. A 4-class model was determined to have the best fit for both boys and girls. Logistic regression showed that levels of trauma significantly differed across classes. In addition, some racial differences were noted for both boy and girl classification profiles. Results of this study demonstrate that there are patterns of underlying mental health concerns among youth in the juvenile justice system. Moreover, these patterns are associated with traumatic experiences, further demonstrating trauma exposure may be a gateway to other psychosocial challenges.

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司法系统涉案青少年的创伤经历与心理健康风险特征之间的关系

研究表明，关注并发心理健康问题的模式可以提高准确性和治疗效果，从而有可能减少司法系统的进一步介入。这一点至关重要，因为超过三分之一的女孩和三分之二的男孩在从拘留所释放十五年后会表现出严重的心理健康问题。本研究的目的是识别涉法青少年的心理健康风险特征。其次，研究创伤和种族对这些群体的不同影响。本研究采用潜伏特征分析来确定少年司法系统中男孩（3550 人）和女孩（1212 人）的心理健康风险特征。多项式逻辑回归用于评估创伤暴露和种族对等级成员的影响。对男孩和女孩而言，4 类模型的拟合效果最好。逻辑回归结果表明，不同班级的学生所受心理创伤的程度有很大差异。此外，男孩和女孩的分类情况也存在一些种族差异。研究结果表明，少年司法系统中的青少年存在潜在的心理健康问题。此外，这些模式还与创伤经历有关，这进一步表明，遭受创伤可能是导致其他社会心理挑战的一个途径。

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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides academics and practitioners in juvenile justice and related fields with a resource for publishing current empirical research on programs, policies, and practices in the areas of youth violence and juvenile justice. Emphasis is placed on such topics as serious and violent juvenile offenders, juvenile offender recidivism, institutional violence, and other relevant topics to youth violence and juvenile justice such as risk assessment, psychopathy, self-control, and gang membership, among others. Decided emphasis is placed on empirical research with specific implications relevant to juvenile justice process, policy, and administration. Interdisciplinary in scope, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice serves a diverse audience of academics and practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, behavior analysis, sociology, law, counseling, public health, and all others with an interest in youth violence and juvenile justice.