@article{bbb79318023045f08900750763e08303,
title = "Differential effects of adult court transfer on juvenile offender recidivism",
abstract = "Prior research indicates that adolescent offenders transferred to adult court are more likely to recidivate than those retained in the juvenile system. The studies supporting this conclusion, however, are limited in addressing the issue of heterogeneity among transferred adolescents. This study estimates the effect of transfer on later crime using a sample of 654 serious juvenile offenders, 29% of whom were transferred. We use propensity score matching to reduce potential selection bias, and we partition the sample on legal characteristics to examine subgroup effects. We find an overall null effect of transfer on re-arrest, but evidence of differential effects of transfer for adolescents with different offending histories. These results suggest that evaluating the effects of transfer for all transferred adolescents together may lead to misguided policy conclusions.",
author = "Loughran, {Thomas A.} and Mulvey, {Edward P.} and Schubert, {Carol A.} and Chassin, {Laurie A.} and Laurence Steinberg and Piquero, {Alex R.} and Jeffrey Fagan and Sonia Cota-Robles and Elizabeth Cauffman and Sandy Losoya",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments The project described was supported by funds from the following: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Institute of Justice, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Center for Disease Control, National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA019697), Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and the Arizona Governor{\textquoteright}s Justice Commission. We are grateful for their support. We also want to acknowledge the guidance provided by several administrators in Arizona regarding the formulation of the questions explored in this paper and the interpretation of the data. The content of this paper, however, is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of these agencies.",
year = "2010",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s10979-009-9210-z",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "476--488",
journal = "Law and human behavior",
issn = "0147-7307",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
}
