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05-02-2022 | Empirical Research

Does Early Adolescent Arrest Alter the Developmental Course of Offending into Young Adulthood?

Auteurs: Bianca E. Bersani, Wade C. Jacobsen, Elaine Eggleston Doherty

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 4/2022

Abstract

Adolescent involvement in risky behavior is ubiquitous and normative. Equally pervasive is the rapid decline in risky behavior during the transition to adulthood. Yet, for many, risky behavior results in arrest. Whereas prior research finds that arrest is associated with an increased risk of experiencing a host of detrimental outcomes, less understood is the impact of an arrest on the developmental course of offending compared to what it would have looked like if no arrest had occurred—the counterfactual. This study examines the developmental implications of an arrest early in the life course. The sample (N = 1293) was 37% female, 42% non-white, with a mean age of 13.00 years (SD = 0.82, range = 12–14) at baseline and followed annually for 15 years. Analyses combine propensity score matching and multilevel modeling techniques to estimate the impact of early arrest (i.e., 14 or younger) on the development of offending from adolescence into adulthood. The results indicate that early arrest alters the developmental course of offending in two primary ways. First, early arrest heightens involvement, frequency, and severity of offending throughout adolescence and into early young adulthood even after controlling for subsequent arrests. The detrimental influence of early arrest on the developmental course of offending is found regardless of gender or race/ethnicity. Second, even among youth with an early arrest, offending wanes over time with self-reported offending among all youth nearly absent by the mid- to late-twenties. The findings advance understanding of the developmental implications of early arrest beyond typical and expected offending.

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This alternative approach involved assigning a given number of control observations (neighbor = 10) to the treatment case with the closest propensity score.

Results of MLM prior to PSM (not shown) are consistent with those of Table 3 but the latter are tempered by the PSM. For example, the effect of early arrest on the prevalence of offending declines by more than half (from b = 1.110; se = 0.136 to b = 0.454; se = 0.143) in the matched-groups models.

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Titel: Does Early Adolescent Arrest Alter the Developmental Course of Offending into Young Adulthood?
Auteurs: Bianca E. Bersani
Wade C. Jacobsen
Elaine Eggleston Doherty
Publicatiedatum: 05-02-2022
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 4/2022
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01576-7

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