Foster care beyond placement: Offending outcomes in emerging adulthood

Yang, Jennifer; McCuish, Evan; Corrado, Raymond R.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.08.009

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“…However, what is not contested is that individuals in the child welfare system are disproportionately found in the youth justice system (e.g., Dannerbeck & Yan, 2011;Herz et al, 2010;Maschi et al, 2008). Yang et al (2017) showed that child welfare system involvement was also associated with criminal justice system involvement in adulthood. Given the importance of this period of transition to the development of a healthy society (e.g.…”

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“…Placement in foster care is associated with childhood maltreatment and abuse, all of which have been established as risk factors for offending. Unsurprisingly, not only are persons with a history of foster care placement disproportionately found in both the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems (Barn, 2010;Barth, 1990;Courtney et al, 2001), they are also more likely to show longer-term, chronic patterns of offending (Ryan et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2017). However, missing from this research is an examination of peripheral risk factors that possibly aggravate the foster care-crime relationship.…”

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Is the Foster Care-Crime Relationship a Consequence of Exposure? Examining Potential Moderating Factors

Yang

McCuish

Corrado

2020

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Youth who are dually involved in both foster care and criminal justice systems represent a small minority of individuals with multi-problem risk profiles. Prior research has found that foster care youth are disproportionately more likely to be chronic offenders in both adolescence and emerging adulthood. However, the nature of this relationship remains theoretically underexplored and empirically underexamined, especially with respect to risk factors that may moderate the relationship. Using data from the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study, the criminal offending trajectories of 678 incarcerated youth were examined. A history of foster care predicted membership in a high rate chronic offending trajectory. This relationship was not moderated by parental maltreatment, negative self-identity, involvement in gang activity, or substance use versatility. Findings suggested a greater need for ongoing support for foster care youth during their transition to adulthood, regardless of their exposure to a range of other negative life circumstances.

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Is the Foster Care-Crime Relationship a Consequence of Exposure? Examining Potential Moderating Factors

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McCuish

Corrado

2020

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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“…One point of difference between these and the present study is that the maltreatment-violence link was explored in a sample of deep-end offenders. It might be that placement is associated with more serious and chronic offending, as found in The Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender study (Yang et al, 2017).…”

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“…However, investigations of the maltreatment-offending association among more serious or "deep-end" youth offenders, for example, those detained or placed in juvenile justice facilities are even more limited . The Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender study (Yang, McCuish, & Corrado, 2017), however, indicated that young people with a history of placement in OHC were more likely to be chronic offenders, with a disproportionate number continuing their offending into early adulthood. Other research has also shown that young people with OHC experiences start committing crimes earlier, are involved in a greater number of offenses and are incarcerated for longer periods of time McFarlane, 2015;Ryan, Herz, Hernandez, & Marshall, 2007).…”

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The maltreatment-violence link: Exploring the role of maltreatment experiences and other individual and social risk factors among young people who offend

Malvaso

Delfabbro

Day

et al. 2018

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Objective: This study investigated the extent to which violent offending in a population of young people detained in secure care facilities is related to variations in child maltreatment after controlling for other known individual and social correlates of crime. Method: Official child protection and youth justice records and survey information for 1,819 young people were analyzed. Measures included: maltreatment factors (including type, timing and recurrence); outof-home care placement factors (including type, age at first placement, stability and duration of placements); social factors (including family and peer risk indicators); and individual factors (including factors relating to intelligence and education, substance use, mental health problems, and behavior). Gender and cultural background were also investigated as potential moderating factors. Logistic regression was used to determine the independent effect of maltreatment factors on violent convictions in the presence of other risk factors. Results: Persistent maltreatment was a consistent predictor of violent convictions. Other independent predictors included: aggression, anger, Indigenous status, and male gender, with household conflict also approaching significance. Conclusion: Collaborative and integrated responses from both child protection and juvenile justice may be needed if comprehensive violence prevention strategies are to be developed for young offenders.

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“…Though there is an increasingly greater emphasis on childhood and adolescent experiences, research remains skewed towards the United States of America (Hong, Algood, Chiu, & Lee, 2011;Musil, Gordon, Warner, Zauszniewski & Standing et al, 2011;Patterson et al, 2018). Several international studies have indicated an increased risk for compromised emotional well-being in adulthood (Côté, Orri, Marttila, & Ristikari, 2018;Rubin, Springer, Zlotnik, & Kang-Yi, 2017;Yang, McCuish, & Corrado, 2017). Other research findings have emphasized that well-being is dependent on the quality of the caregiver-child relationship, as well as placement stability (Dolbin-Macnab & Keiley, 2009;Goodman, 2012).…”

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Psychosocial well-being in adulthood in response to systemic barriers in kinship care as experienced during adolescence

Goldschmidt

Alexander

Seabi

et al. 2019

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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This study reports on the experiences of Black adults who were raised in kinship care during adolescence and its influences on their psychosocial well-being in adulthood. An exploratory, descriptive, instrumental, multiplecase study approach was followed to facilitate retrospective investigation. Semi-structured, individual interviews were conducted to construct data. The sample comprised of 13 Black adults between the ages of 18 and 42 years. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The themes highlighted the systemic challenges characteristic of the South African context. These include poverty, material deprivation, and its influence on the kinship caregiver's physical and emotional accessibility. The findings suggest that the implications of the systemic challenges reverberate as forms of structural violence. Many of the participants defend against this, with conscious efforts to emphasize on the constructive outcomes of their experiences. Future research should include multiple case and quantitative studies as well as more longitudinal research.

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Foster care beyond placement: Offending outcomes in emerging adulthood

Cited by 31 publications

References 51 publications

Is the Foster Care-Crime Relationship a Consequence of Exposure? Examining Potential Moderating Factors

Is the Foster Care-Crime Relationship a Consequence of Exposure? Examining Potential Moderating Factors

The maltreatment-violence link: Exploring the role of maltreatment experiences and other individual and social risk factors among young people who offend

Psychosocial well-being in adulthood in response to systemic barriers in kinship care as experienced during adolescence

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