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This paper describes a longitudinal study of all juveniles who exit the child welfare and youth correction system in the state of Michigan. The purposes of the study are to examine how many of the youth are subsequently sentenced to adult prisons in Michigan and/or receive some type of welfare assistance and what variables seem to be associated with these outcomes. The study is an outgrowth of a pilot research project that looked at all child welfare and delinquency cases discharged from a private residential treatment agency to see how many were imprisoned within five years. The findings revealed there were no differences with respect to the proportion of child welfare cases imprisoned as compared to delinquents. With respect to delinquents, numbers of prior felony convictions were highly correlated with future imprisonment.
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Schwartz, I.M., Kapp, S.A., Overstreet, E.J. (1994). Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare: Longitudinal Research in the State of Michigan. In: Weitekamp, E.G.M., Kerner, HJ. (eds) Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior. NATO ASI Series, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0864-5_4
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