Robertson Angela A, Fang Zhou, Weiland Doris, Joe George, Gardner Sheena, Dembo Richard, McReynolds Larkin, Dickson Megan, Pankow Jennifer, Dennis Michael, Elkington Katherine
Mississippi State University.
Temple University.
Crim Justice Behav. 2020 Sep;47(9):1059-1078. doi: 10.1177/0093854820922891. Epub 2020 May 25.
Recidivism, and the factors related to it, remains a highly significant concern among juvenile justice researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Recent studies highlight the need to examine multiple measures of recidivism as well as conduct multilevel analyses of this phenomenon. Using data collected in a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) cooperative agreement, we examined individual- and site-level factors related to 1-year recidivism among probation youth in 20 sites in five states to answer research questions related to how recidivism rates differ across sites and the relationships between individual-level variables and a county-level concentrated disadvantage measure and recidivism. Our findings of large site differences in recidivism rates, and complex relationships between individual and county-level predictors of recidivism, highlight the need for more nuanced, contextually informed, multilevel approaches in studying recidivism among juveniles.
累犯及其相关因素仍然是青少年司法研究人员、从业者和政策制定者高度关注的问题。最近的研究强调了审视累犯多种衡量标准以及对这一现象进行多层次分析的必要性。利用在美国国立药物滥用研究所（NIDA）资助的“青少年司法——法律系统中青少年干预措施的转化研究”（JJ-TRIALS）合作协议中收集的数据，我们研究了五个州20个地点缓刑青年中与1年累犯相关的个体层面和地点层面因素，以回答与不同地点累犯率如何不同以及个体层面变量与县级集中劣势衡量指标和累犯之间的关系相关的研究问题。我们关于累犯率存在巨大地点差异以及累犯的个体和县级预测因素之间存在复杂关系的研究结果，凸显了在研究青少年累犯问题时采用更细致入微、基于背景信息的多层次方法的必要性。
