EFFECT OF JUVENILE MENTAL ILLNESS AND ADULT OFFENDING
Abstract
Individuals with mental illness interact with both the juvenile and adult criminal justice
systems. Over 50% of inmates in jail and prisons have been diagnosed with mental health
problems (James & Glaze, 2006; Al-Rousan, et al. 2017; Wilson & Wood, 2014; Torrey, 1995),
while offenders in the juvenile justice system appear to have considerably higher rates of mental
illness than those who do not offend (Cashman & Thomas, 2017). The current study utilizes data
obtained from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents Health (Add Health).
Adolescents from “selected schools, urbanity, school size and school type,” (Beaver, 2013,
Daigle & Teasdale, 2018) were randomly selected during 1994-1995 to take a survey.