Externalizing Behavior Among Youth With a Current or Formerly Incarcerated Parent

Ebony L. Ruhland; Laurel Davis; Julie Atella; Rebecca J. Shlafer

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Externalizing Behavior Among Youth With a Current or Formerly Incarcerated Parent

Ebony L. Ruhland, Laurel Davis, Julie Atella, Rebecca J. Shlafer

General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health

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Abstract

This study examined associations between parental incarceration and youths’ externalizing behaviors (e.g., damage to property, fighting, theft, etc.). Data were drawn from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey, a statewide sample of 126,868 youth in public schools. Logistic regression analyses examined associations between youths’ experience of parental incarceration and their self-reported externalizing behaviors, controlling for key demographic characteristics. Youth with a currently or formerly incarcerated parent reported significantly more externalizing behaviors compared with youth who never had a parent incarcerated. In addition, youth with a currently incarcerated parent reported significantly more externalizing behaviors than youth who had a formerly incarcerated parent in six out of the eight externalizing behaviors. However, youth who reported having a formerly incarcerated parent were more likely to report lying or conning and more likely to have difficulty paying attention than youth who currently had an incarcerated parent. Results illustrate that parental incarceration has important implications for youths’ own risk for delinquency and high-risk behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3-21
Number of pages	19
Journal	International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Volume	64
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19855317
State	Published - Jan 1 2020

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Thank you to the Minnesota Student Survey provided by the public school students in Minnesota via local public school district and managed by the Minnesota Student Survey Interagency Team 2016. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr. Davis?s effort on this manuscript was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under National Research Service Award in Primary Medical Care grant number T32HP22239 (PI: Borowsky), Bureau of Health Workforce. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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delinquency
externalizing behaviors
parental incarceration

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