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Probation Intensity, Self-Reported Offending, and Psychopathy in Juveniles on Probation for Serious Offenses
Ryan C Wagoner1, Carol A Schubert2, Edward P Mulvey2
1Dr. Wagoner is a Staff Psychiatrist, Saint Simon's By-the-Sea Hospital, St. Simon's Island, GA. Ms. Schubert is a Research Program Administrator and Dr. Mulvey is a Professor of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. This project was completed while Dr. Wagoner was a psychiatry resident at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. The project described was supported by funds from the following: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2007-MU-FX-0002), National Institute of Justice (2008-IJ-CX-0023), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA019697), the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and the Arizona Governor's Justice Commission. ryancolt.wagoner@gmail.com.
Abstract:
This study examines the relationship between level of supervision by the juvenile probation officers (JPO) and an adolescent's offending, considering the characteristics of juvenile offenders (specifically, level of psychopathy). Data are taken from the Pathways to Desistance Study on a subset of 859 juvenile offenders. We found that the level of probation officer supervision was not consistently related to the juvenile's risk of recidivism, and level of supervision did not affect self-reported offending. However, risk level is consistently related to offending behavior, more so than the level of supervision and other characteristics of these youths. Level of psychopathy does not moderate the relationship of self-reported offending and level of supervision. These results highlight the need for more integration of risk assessment tools into juvenile probation practices and the possibility of devising methods to focus this practice to make it more effective.
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