Objective: Children in out-of-home placements typically display more educational,
behavioral, and psychological problems than do their peers. This systematic review …

Background Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their
homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing …

Although research has oft-documented a maltreatment–delinquency link, the effect of
involvement in—and timing of—child welfare system involvement on offending has received …

Children placed in foster care are at risk for becoming involved with the juvenile justice
system. This study documents the rates at which children involved with foster care enter the …

Risk and protective factors embedded in the domains of individual, family, peer, school, and
community have been reported to be significantly associated with the risk of offending and re …

Although neurodisability features significantly across child welfare and youth justice cohorts,
little research investigates neurodisability among crossover children with dual systems …

There is convincing evidence that many young people who are in the justice system have
had contact with child protection services and that victims of childhood maltreatment are at …

The association between exposure to maltreatment during childhood or adolescence and
subsequent delinquent or offending behaviors has been repeatedly documented in the …

This paper describes the use of instrumental-variables (IV) to estimate causal effects of
foster care on long-and short-term outcomes. This estimation strategy provides a tool to …

Despite sufficient evidence to conclude that maltreatment exposure affects the risk of crime
and delinquency, the magnitude and specificity of effects of child maltreatment on crime and …