کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1081106 950573 2006 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Deaths in juvenile justice residential facilities
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی پریناتولوژی (پزشکی مادر و جنین)، طب اطفال و بهداشت کودک
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Deaths in juvenile justice residential facilities
چکیده انگلیسی

PurposeTo provide the first national description of death in juvenile justice residential facilities.MethodsData come from recent censuses of all public and private juvenile justice facilities in the United States. Death rates for the custody population are adjusted for length at risk, and are compared to death rates of adolescents in the general population. Multivariate modeling is used to identify facility-level risk factors related to deaths.ResultsAdjusting for the number of days at risk, adolescents in juvenile justice facilities have lower risks of death by accident and homicide, but considerably higher risks of death from suicide and illness (200% and 50%, respectively). Facilities with larger Black populations, those that lock sleeping room doors, and facilities designed to screen young persons for future placements all had significantly higher odds of experiencing a death.ConclusionsThe higher rates of death from suicide or illness suggest either (a) juvenile justice facilities host very high risk adolescents who would have died on the outside, (b) the facility environment itself increases the risk of death relative to the adolescents’ environment outside the facility, particularly in the case of deaths from suicide, (c) placement in a juvenile justice facility may be indicative of a time of crisis in adolescents’ lives in terms of physical or mental health and thus the risk of death increases, or most realistically, (d) some combination of the above. That deaths are more likely in facilities with larger Black populations warrants significant future investigation. Finally, the policy of locking sleeping room doors should be seriously evaluated in light of the strong association found with suicide.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health - Volume 38, Issue 6, June 2006, Pages 662–668
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