@article{6ce6b550ee734382bd60d5b89a044102,
title = "Predicting outcomes for youth transferred to adult court",
abstract = "Extant research regarding juvenile transfer has focused primarily on the negative effects of current policies, with little consistent and rigorous work on the variation among the adolescents transferred to adult court and their later adjustment in the community. Using a sample of 193 transferred youth from Arizona, we consider how certain individual characteristics are related to four post-release outcomes (antisocial activity, re-arrest, re-institutionalization, and gainful activity). We find considerable variability in outcomes, with adjustment significantly and consistently related to certain legal and risk-need factors. These results indicate that some transferred youth may experience negative outcomes, and that refinements to transfer policy may benefit from consideration of these factors in determining which serious adolescent offenders are most appropriate for transfer.",
author = "Schubert, {Carol A.} and Mulvey, {Edward P.} and Loughran, {Thomas A.} and Jeffrey Fagan and Chassin, {Laurie A.} and Piquero, {Alex R.} and Losoya, {Sandra H.} and Laurence Steinberg and Elizabeth Cauffman",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments The project described was supported by funds from the following: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2007-MU-FX-0002), National Institute of Justice (2008-IJ-CX-0023), 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/s10979-009-9209-5",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "460--475",
journal = "Law and human behavior",
issn = "0147-7307",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
}
