Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders

Autor/inn/en	Khurana, Atika; Cooksey, Elizabeth C.; Gavazzi, Stephen M.
Titel	Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35 (2011) 2, S.282-292 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1177/0361684310384103
Schlagwörter	Substance Abuse; Intervention; Delinquency; Courts; Pregnancy; Risk; Program Development; Multivariate Analysis; Adolescents; African Americans; Health; Juvenile Justice; Whites; Profiles; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Kriminalität; Court; Gerichtshof; Schwangerschaft; Risiko; Programmplanung; Multivariate Analyse; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Afroamerikaner; Gesundheit; Jugendgerichtshilfe; White; Weißer; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse
Abstract	The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In line with past research on teen pregnancy, the authors found that young African American female offenders were three times more likely to have ever been pregnant than their European American counterparts. Factorial multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) procedures were conducted to identify the ecological risk domains that differentiated groups of female juvenile offenders in the sample of this study, based on their pregnancy history and racial background. The findings of this study suggest that female offenders who had experienced a pregnancy had significantly higher levels of health-related risks as compared to their counterparts who had never been pregnant. Furthermore, regardless of their pregnancy history, White female offenders reported significantly greater involvement in substance abuse behaviors as compared to Blacks. Taken together, these findings underscore the need to utilize comprehensive risk assessments when designing integrated intervention programs that are tailored to the unique needs of young female offenders who are at risk for early pregnancies. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10