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8 Youth Violence & Juv. Just. 3 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/yvja8 and id is 1 raw text is: Voltime ' Number 1 Jnuary, 2010 3-18 Truancy and Patterns of I 2010 SAGE Publications 10.1177/15412'04009338251 http;/%/yIj sagepubxcom Criminogenic Risk in a Young hosted at Offender Population http://ouie.sagepub.com Eyitayo Onifade Aisha Smith Nyandoro Foundation for the Mid South William S. Davidson II Christina Campbell Michigan State University This study validated a widely used risk assessment measure, the youth level of service/case management inventory (YLS/CMI), as a predictor of both delinquent reoffense and repeat truancy offenses in a court-involved truant sample (n = 308). The YLS/CMI performed adequately well at predicting delinquent reoffense, yielding an area under the curve (AUC) of .617 (p < .05); however, the analysis did not indicate any significant relationship between the YLS/CMI risk score and the repeat truancy offense. This study also used cluster analysis to identify five combinations of risk factors that were prevalent in the truant sample. These find- ings have value to justice and education systems as it determined the potential of this instru- ment as a truancy prevention tool. It also provided a typology system for classifying offenders based on eight domains of criminogenic risk, paving the way for interventions focused on specific patterns of risk found in this subpopulation of juvenile offenders. Keywords: truancy; youth level ofservice/case management inventory; adolescent risk level O ver the past decade, truancy has posed one of the most difficult problems for the U.S. education and juvenile justice systems to address (Zhang, Katsiyannis, Barrett, & Willson, 2007). Truancy has become widely recognized as a first sign of trouble by prac- titioners and a dependable predictor of future criminality in research (McCluskey, Bynum, & Patchin, 2004; Tait, 2004). Studies have indicated that truancy has severe short-term con- sequences (e.g., poor grades, legal difficulties, social alienation, family conflict, and dis- tress; Dryfoos, 1990; Huizinga & Jakob-Chien, 1998; Keamey, 2003). Additionally, chronic truancy can interrupt the social development of youth and lead to maladjustment in their childhood, adolescence, and finally in adulthood (Garry, 1996). Truancy thus contributes to the failure of youth in educational settings and acts as a developmental factor in adult criminality (Zhang et al., 2007). Consequently, juvenile jus- tice systems have increasingly relied on truancy interventions to ameliorate this problem in the early stages of delinquency. Although, schools informally handle the majority of Authors' Note: Please address correspondence to Eyitayo Onifade, Psychology Building, 132, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; e-mail: onifadee@msu.edu. 3

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