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CASCW’s first issue of CW360° seeks to understand the experiences and outcomes of children of incarcerated parents and their families as they receive child welfare services.

This issue of CW360° explores the impact and implications of the intersection of child welfare and criminal justice involvement on families.

In this project, we examined administrative data of Minnesota residents from early childhood through adulthood to understand individual and environmental factors that lead to perpetration of crime. This brief presents findings from a study examining the impact of air pollution on the risk of violence among children using data on school disciplinary referrals.

The aim of the study was to identify potential links between out-of-home placement characteristics and the likelihood and timing of initial contact with the juvenile justice system for Minnesota youth.

Maltreated youth tend to enter into the juvenile justice system at younger ages than non-maltreated youth. Early onset of delinquency among maltreated youth compounds their risk of adverse developmental outcomes, including serious and continued offending. This study prospectively examined risk factors for maltreated youth who have their delinquency cases adjudicated for the first time between ages 9 and 14.

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether youth with disabilities were overrepresented in the juvenile court system as a group and whether youth with particular disability labels were overrepresented.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors associated with recidivism among youth with child protection and juvenile justice system involvement, specifically the relationship between out-of-school suspension and reoffending.

The purpose of this study was to identify a set of indicators available from existing administrative databases that could be used to identify adolescents at elevated risk for being a victim of violent crime in order to direct early intervention resources to the young people who would most benefit from services.