TY - JOUR
T1 - The School Experiences of Male Adolescent Offenders
T2 - Implications for Academic Performance and Recidivism
AU - Fine, Adam
AU - Simmons, Cortney
AU - Miltimore, Sarah
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Frick, Paul J.
AU - Cauffman, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
Cortney Simmons is a doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine. A National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Awardee, her research interests include the individual and environmental factors influencing delinquency, and the effects of incarceration on adolescent development.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Crossroads Study is supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - Adolescents with juvenile justice system experience may be enrolled into alternative schools to increase academic success or to reduce delinquency. This study used longitudinal data on a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 1,216 male, first-time adolescent offenders to examine how youthful offenders’ school experiences were associated with academic outcomes, school attitudes, and delinquency. Effects varied by domain in important ways. Youth who attended alternative schools generally fared better academically than youth who attended traditional schools. However, importantly, youth who attended alternative schools subsequently engaged in more delinquency and violent reoffending than youth in traditional schools. The findings indicate that disrupting normative schooling appears to be the most detrimental to youth outcomes across domains.
AB - Adolescents with juvenile justice system experience may be enrolled into alternative schools to increase academic success or to reduce delinquency. This study used longitudinal data on a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 1,216 male, first-time adolescent offenders to examine how youthful offenders’ school experiences were associated with academic outcomes, school attitudes, and delinquency. Effects varied by domain in important ways. Youth who attended alternative schools generally fared better academically than youth who attended traditional schools. However, importantly, youth who attended alternative schools subsequently engaged in more delinquency and violent reoffending than youth in traditional schools. The findings indicate that disrupting normative schooling appears to be the most detrimental to youth outcomes across domains.
KW - adolescent offenders
KW - adolescent recidivism
KW - alternative school
KW - school instability
KW - school-to-prison pipeline
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U2 - 10.1177/0011128717750392
DO - 10.1177/0011128717750392
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041900544
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 64
SP - 1326
EP - 1350
JO - Crime and Delinquency
JF - Crime and Delinquency
IS - 10
ER -