Juvenile Court Records and Markov Chains: Their Use as Aids in Identification and Treatment of Delinquent Youth

Extensive efforts have been made for the past 50 years to find ways of identifying youth, at a time in their lives when effective intervention is still possible, who are in danger of running afoul of the law. Concurrently, during the current article's original print date, studies in the analysi...

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Published in:Law and human behavior 1977-09, Vol.1 (3), p.217-237
Main Authors: White, David, Hong Uh, Soo, Andriano, Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case histories
Court records
Crime Prevention
Criminal offenses
Criminal probation
Criminology
Human
Juvenile courts
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Justice
Markov Chains
Recidivism
Young offenders
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Summary:Extensive efforts have been made for the past 50 years to find ways of identifying youth, at a time in their lives when effective intervention is still possible, who are in danger of running afoul of the law. Concurrently, during the current article's original print date, studies in the analysis of Markov processes have been increasingly applied to social phenomena. Recently, there has been some interest in the application of Stochastic models to problems in crime control. Markov chains of all types have in common the property that their measurements are categorical in nature; hence their choice for the work presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
ISSN:0147-7307
1573-661X
DOI:10.1007/BF01066625