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Presented at the 21st Annual Research Conference

MTAYA Study Introduction

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Presenting: Maryann Davis

All Authors for this paper: Maryann Davis

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: Justice system involvement during the transition to adulthood is high among youth with serious mental health conditions. This introduction outlines what is known about this justice system involvement and what pressing questions are yet to be answered, some of which are answered in the subsequent papers in this symposium.

MTAYA Study Methods

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Presenting: Bernice Gershenson

All Authors for this paper: Bernice Gershenson

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: This paper presents the shared methodology of the studies presented in this symposium. Using statewide administrative data from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) and Massachusetts’ juvenile and criminal courts a database was constructed that contained juvenile and criminal arrest histories to age 25 for DMH clients who were adolescent service users, born 1976-79 (female N = 738, male N = 781).

Gender Differences in Transition Age Arrests

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Presenting: Maryann Davis

All Authors for this paper: Maryann Davis; Steven Banks; William Fisher; Bernice Gershenson; Albert Grudzinskas

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: This study examined gender differences in arrest onset, arrest rates, charge types, prevalence of multiple years of arrest, and longitudinal patterns of arrest (criminal careers), from ages 13-24, in a statewide cohort of intensive public adolescent mental health service users in Massachusetts. Results confirm greater justice system involvement of males, but high rates of involvement of females and several areas in which gender plays no apparent role. Policy and practice implications will be emphasized.

Transition-Aged Mental Health Services and Risk of Adult Arrest

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Presenting: Michael Pullmann

All Authors for this paper: Michael Pullmann; Maryann Davis

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: Identifying specific types of services that are risk markers for subsequent offending allows identification and potential intervention with high risk individuals. This study examined the relationship between receipt of specific types of services at ages 16-18, and subsequent arrests at ages 19-24 in females. Results indicate that while arrest history is the strongest marker of adult arrest, residential treatment is a risk factor in those without a history of arrest.

The Massachusetts Transition Age Youth Arrest Study

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Session Number: 21 Room: Salon G

Presenting: Maryann Davis

All Authors for this paper: Maryann Davis

Presentation Type: brief symposium

Synopsis: Late adolescence and young adulthood are the ages in which arrests and offending behavior are most common in the general population. However, adolescents with serious mental health conditions are at even greater risk of trouble with the law during the transition to adulthood years, compared to their same age peers, with cumulative arrest rates as high as 64% by age 25. Knowing when that risk is greatest, for whom, and for what is critical to crafting policies and services that can help prevent or reduce offending. The preponderance of criminology studies are based in males because of their high offending rates compared to females. Little is known about arrests or offending in girls in mental health systems. This symposium describes a study of justice system involvement during the transition years (13-24) in a statewide cohort of youths who had received public adolescent mental health services during the mid 1990’s. Analyses focus on gender differences in patterns of arrest. Findings provide some guidance for policy, practice, and future research in this area. A brief introduction will be provided, followed by a basic description of the methodology, followed by a paper describing basic gender differences in offending patterns, and gender comparisons of within-individual longitudinal arrest patterns, called developmental trajectory modeling. This will be followed by a second paper focusing on the relationship of intensive adolescent mental health services during late adolescence and arrest patterns in young adulthood in females.

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Session Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM