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February 2009, Vol 99, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 234-236
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.141135

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Justice System Involvement Into Young Adulthood: Comparison of Adolescent Girls in the Public Mental Health System and in the General Population

Maryann Davis, PhD, William H. Fisher, PhD, Bernice Gershenson, MPH, Albert J. Grudzinskas, JD and Steven M. Banks, PhD

All the authors are with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Maryann Davis, PhD, Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655 (e-mail: maryann.davis{at}umassmed.edu).

We compared arrest onset and frequency and types of charges between a statewide cohort of adolescent girls in the public mental health system and girls of the same age in the general population to investigate important differences that could have policy or intervention implications. Girls in the public mental health system were arrested at earlier ages more frequently and were charged with more serious offenses than were girls in the general population. Our results strongly argue for cooperation between the public mental health and justice systems to provide mental health and offender rehabilitation in their shared population.






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