Schooling while incarcerated as a turning point for serious juvenile and young adult offenders

Schooling while incarcerated as a turning point for serious juvenile and young adult offenders

Attending school and working are consistently associated with positive outcomes for juvenile offenders returning to the community. Using longitudinal data from the Pathways to Desistance Study, we used structural equation modeling to test whether better school experiences while incarcerated was posi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of adolescence (London, England.) England.), 2020-01, Vol.78 (1), p.9-23
Hauptverfasser: Jäggi, Lena, Kliewer, Wendy, Serpell, Zewelanji
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adjustment
Age groups
Attachment
Correctional education
Correctional treatment programs
Delinquency
Educational Environment
Imprisonment
Incarceration
Juvenile offenders
Pathways to Desistance
Reentry
School environment
Structural equation modeling
Structural Equation Models
Vulnerability
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Zusammenfassung:Attending school and working are consistently associated with positive outcomes for juvenile offenders returning to the community. Using longitudinal data from the Pathways to Desistance Study, we used structural equation modeling to test whether better school experiences while incarcerated was positively connected to adjustment upon release among serious juvenile offenders (91% male) in the U.S. Adjustment was assessed as attending school for 310 legal minors (
ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.11.002