Mental illness, violence risk, and race in juvenile detention: Implications for disproportionate minority contact.

Desai, Rani A.; Falzer, Paul R.; Chapman, John F.; Borum, Randy

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01138.x

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“…Chapman et al conclude by suggesting that a structured professional judgment model using an instrument such as the SAVRY might be helpful for reducing disproportionate minority contact. Generally, the negative association between risk and race identified was not related to increased mental health problems among minority youths in detention (Desai, Falzer, Chapman, & Borum, 2009). …”

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Risk-Needs Assessment in Juvenile Justice

Vincent¹,

Chapman

Cook

2010

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The authors conducted a prospective study of the predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) using a 5-year follow-up period and a sample of 480 male adolescents assessed by juvenile detention personnel. Analyses were conducted to examine differential validity by race-ethnicity, the relative contribution of structured professional judgments of risk level, and the incremental validity of dynamic to static risk factors. Overall, the SAVRY total scores were significantly predictive of any type of reoffending with some variability across racial-ethnic groups. Youths rated as moderate to high risk by evaluators using structured professional judgment had greater odds of rearrest, but these risk ratings did not have incremental validity over numeric scores. Static factors were most strongly predictive of nonviolent rearrest, but dynamic factors (social-contextual) were the most predictive of violent rearrest. Implications for use of risk-needs assessment tools in juvenile justice programs and areas in need of further investigation are discussed.

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Risk-Needs Assessment in Juvenile Justice

Vincent¹,

Chapman

Cook

2010

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Overwhelmingly elevated levels of CVE have been consistently reported in research on African American youth (e.g., Nofziger & Kurtz, 2005;Stein et al, 2003) at rates significantly higher than those observed among European Americans (Desai, Falzer, Chapman, & Borum, 2012;Hsia et al, 2004;Kempf-Leonard, 2007).…”

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Relationships Between Family and Community Factors on Delinquency and Violence among African American Adolescents

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Burkhart

2015

Race and Justice

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Among the most powerful antecedents to delinquency and violence are the family of origin and the community context in which the adolescent lives. Additionally, it is recognized that family and community factors may mutually and interactively influence delinquency. Fourteen studies were reviewed to examine the relationship between family and community factors on delinquency or violence among male African American adolescents. Nine studies examined delinquency, three studies examined violence, and two studies had both delinquency and violence as outcome variables. Findings affirmed the importance of concurrently examining community and family factors when investigating delinquency or violence. Two overarching patterns between family and community factors on delinquency and violence were observed across studies. Protective family factors appeared to buffer against the negative impact of influential community factors, while protective community factors appeared to reduce delinquency or violence on the family level. Additionally, the presence of detrimental factors at both family and community levels exacerbated delinquency or violence. Race/ethnicity moderated observed family-community relationships in several studies, but insufficient evidence of race/ethnicity as a moderator was indicated overall. Finally, future research is warranted examining models of delinquency and violence that includes multiple contexts with race/ethnicity as a moderator.

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“…Compared to caregivers with more social capital, these caregivers may be less able to help their children avoid system involvement and protect them from the cascade of life-altering events that can often follow severe externalizing behavior. There is a host of research showing that African American youth with emotional and behavioral problems are more likely to end up in the juvenile justice system than White youth (e.g., Davis & Sorensen, 2013; Desai, Falzer, Chapman, & Borum, 2012). Interpreted this way, these caregivers’ perceived need for treatment may be influenced not only by adolescent clinical factors, but also by interactions among the individual, family, beliefs regarding mental health and help-seeking, and broader systemic factors.…”

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Perceived Need for Treatment and Engagement in Mental Health Services Among Community-Referred Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents

Fisher

Lichvar

Hogue

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Adm Policy Ment Health

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This study examines clinical and family predictors of perceived need for treatment and engagement in mental health treatment services among community-referred racial/ethnic minority adolescents and their primary caregivers. Findings indicated that the majority of families perceived a need for treatment, but that perceived need was not associated with treatment engagement. Family factors (i.e., low cohesion and high conflict within the family) predicted perceived need for treatment among adolescents, whereas clinical factors (i.e., adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptomatology) predicted caregiver perceived need for adolescent treatment. Neither clinical nor family factors predicted treatment engagement.

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Mental illness, violence risk, and race in juvenile detention: Implications for disproportionate minority contact.

Cited by 34 publications

References 29 publications

Risk-Needs Assessment in Juvenile Justice

Risk-Needs Assessment in Juvenile Justice

Relationships Between Family and Community Factors on Delinquency and Violence among African American Adolescents

Perceived Need for Treatment and Engagement in Mental Health Services Among Community-Referred Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents

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