TY - JOUR
T1 - The linkage between mental health, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency
T2 - Results from the Boricua Youth Study
AU - Jennings, Wesley G.
AU - Maldonado-Molina, Mildred
AU - Fenimore, Danielle M.
AU - Piquero, Alex R.
AU - Bird, Hector
AU - Canino, Glorisa
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Purpose: To examine the longitudinal relationship between depression, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency among Hispanic children and adolescents. Methods: Propensity score matching is used to match depressed and non-depressed youth and a combination of group-based trajectory and multinomial logistic regression techniques are used. Results: After adjusting for pre-existing differences between depressed and non-depressed youth, the causal relationship between depression and delinquency and the association between depression and trajectories of delinquency appears to be largely spurious. However, the effect of depression on predicting a high rate and increasing trajectory of delinquency is robust. Conclusions: Depression and high-rate offending are linked in a sample of Hispanic children and adolescents.
AB - Purpose: To examine the longitudinal relationship between depression, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency among Hispanic children and adolescents. Methods: Propensity score matching is used to match depressed and non-depressed youth and a combination of group-based trajectory and multinomial logistic regression techniques are used. Results: After adjusting for pre-existing differences between depressed and non-depressed youth, the causal relationship between depression and delinquency and the association between depression and trajectories of delinquency appears to be largely spurious. However, the effect of depression on predicting a high rate and increasing trajectory of delinquency is robust. Conclusions: Depression and high-rate offending are linked in a sample of Hispanic children and adolescents.
KW - Delinquency
KW - Depression
KW - Developmental
KW - Hispanics
KW - Life-course
KW - Mental health
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.08.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053044003
VL - 62
SP - 66
EP - 73
JO - Journal of Criminal Justice
JF - Journal of Criminal Justice
SN - 0047-2352
ER -