The Road to Murder: The Enduring Criminogenic Effects of Juvenile Confinement Among a Sample of Adult Career Criminals

In the juvenile justice literature, deep-end interventions such as commitment to a confinement facility are reserved for the most severe delinquents but unfortunately have been shown to have negative consequences. The current study repurposes juvenile confinement within a criminal career context to...

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Published in:Youth violence and juvenile justice 2011-07, Vol.9 (3), p.207-221
Main Authors: DeLisi, Matt, Hochstetler, Andy, Jones- Johnson, Gloria, Caudill, Jonathan W., Marquart, James W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arrests
Career Criminals
Careers
Classification
Correctional treatment programs
Criminal justice
Criminals
Ethnicity
Habitual offenders
Homicide
Intervention
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Justice
Males
Murders & murder attempts
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Summary:In the juvenile justice literature, deep-end interventions such as commitment to a confinement facility are reserved for the most severe delinquents but unfortunately have been shown to have negative consequences. The current study repurposes juvenile confinement within a criminal career context to empirically examine its role in homicide offending based on data from a sample of 445 male, adult habitual criminals. Poisson regression models indicated that juvenile confinement— measured both dimensionally and categorically—predicted murder arrests despite controls for juvenile homicide offending, juvenile violent delinquency, juvenile felony adjudications, juvenile non-compliance violations, juvenile arrest charges, onset, age, three racial/ethnic classifications, career arrests, career violent index arrests, and career property index arrests. Receiver operating characteristics—area under the curve (ROC-AUC) graphs showed that juvenile confinement predicted murder significantly but modestly better than chance although career violent offending was the strongest predictor of murder perpetration.
ISSN:1541-2040
1556-9330
DOI:10.1177/1541204010396107