Assessing the Mental Health/Offending Relationship Across Race/Ethnicity in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders

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Abstract

There has long been an observed relationship between mental health and offending; however, this relationship has not been studied in much detail across race/ethnicity nor in a sample of serious adolescent offenders in the transition between adolescence and adulthood. In this paper, we use data from the Pathways to Desistance study to explore how the mental health/offending relationship operates across race/ethnicity over time.

Authors

• Sarah A. El Sayed, University of Texas at Dallas

• Alex Piquero, University of Texas at Dallas