Behavioral health services access for justice-and child welfare-involved youth is limited
despite significant need. Structural interventions to address limited access are nascent …

This book takes a comprehensive, analytic approach to understanding Juvenile Risk and
Needs Assessment (JRNA), covering elements relevant to how the practice affects youths' …

Background Neighborhood disadvantage is linked to a higher risk of referrals to child
welfare and juvenile justice systems. While past research has explored these associations …

Girls of color are overrepresented in the juvenile legal system and experience high levels of
unmet needs. Assessing and meeting girls' needs may prevent system contact or deeper …

Justice-involved youth are at increased risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
infection, and structural barriers may limit their access to vaccination. We implemented a …

Previous research has examined the influence of individual‐and case‐level factors on
police decisions in sexual assault cases, with little attention paid to community‐level factors …

Background For youth involved in the juvenile justice (JJ) system, caregiver involvement and
engagement in the system is crucial for youth development and outcomes of JJ cases; …

Informal processing is essential to juvenile courts. It directs youth away from the formal legal
system and the consequences of involvement. Many youth are informally processed and …

Structurally marginalized justice-involved youth on probation (JIYP) subject to community
service hours are a particularly underserved population. This is due to numerous barriers to …

The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the relationship between childhood trauma
and substance use problems as latent constructs among justice-involved adolescents (JIA) …