A Two-State Examination of Varied Measurement Strategies for Juvenile Reoffending, Florida and Oregon, 2012-2017 (ICPSR 38971)
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Sonja E. Siennick, Florida State University
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38971.v1
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Past research indicates that there is wide variation in the measurement of juvenile recidivism across state juvenile justice systems. As such, concerns have been raised that cross-agency differences in the definition and measurement of juvenile recidivism may hamper the generalizability of knowledge as well as comparisons across jurisdictions. Yet it is unclear whether measurement choices do impact the conclusions of studies of juvenile recidivism. These data were collected to answer questions about the impact of measurement variation on the rates and predictors of juvenile recidivism. The first sample included 104,354 unique spells of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice supervision, including 48,616 diversion spells, 43,799 probation spells, and 11,939 residential commitment spells that ended between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2016. The second sample used data from the Oregon Youth authority and featured 2,743 unique spells of supervision, including 1,616 probation spells and 1,127 parole spells that ended between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2016. The data include a variety of operationalizations of juvenile recidivism that vary in terms of the type of system contact captured, the follow-up length used, and whether the measure includes adult criminal justice system information. The data also include information on youths' demographic characteristics, delinquency history, and risk and protective factors. Contextual data from the American Community Survey and Uniform Crime Reports are also included.
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The sample for the Florida data is archival data on a release cohort of all youth who completed Florida Department of Juvenile Justice programs between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2017. For the Oregon data, the sample is all probation and parole youth with open cases between July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2016.
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All youth released from the custody (i.e., residential placement, diversion, probation, or parole) of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice or between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2017. All probation and parole youth with open cases under the Oregon Youth Authority between July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2016.
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.