Explicating correlates of juvenile offender detention length: The impact of race, mental health difficulties, maltreatment, offense type, and court dispositions

Youth Justice

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-149

  Mallett, Christopher A ^a   Stoddard Dare, Patricia ^a   Seck, Mamadou M ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

child maltreatment; detention; juvenile; mental health; minority race

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960253733     PISSN: 14732254     EISSN: 17476283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473225411406383     Document Type: Article

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