Youth Who Received Informal Handling/Supervision in 2006

1. Youth Who Received Informal Handling/Supervision in 2006 DCJ Quality & Evaluation Services April 2009 Prepared by: Liang Wu, Sr. Research Analyst Charlene Rhyne, PhD, Manager

2. Juvenile Justice Involvement for Youth Who Received informal Supervision in 2006

3. Age at Time of Informal • average = 15.4 years; median = 16 years

4. Gender Distribution

5. Race/Ethnicity Distribution

6. Allegation Law Type of the Informal Trigger Referral

7. Allegation Law Category of the Informal Trigger Referral

8. Age at 1st Dependency Referral • 55 = 20.3% of Informal only sample • Average age at 1st dependency referral= 6.4 years

9. Total Referrals* Incurred Prior to Informal Supervision *excluding trigger referral. A youth could have more than one referrals

10. Number of Referral Youth had Prior to Informal

11. Most Serious Referral Youth Had Prior to Informal 45% 61% 11.8% 43.2%

12. New Criminal Referrals After Informal Actions

13. 1st Re-referral Law Type and Category

14. Prior Referral Records and Recidivism Differences for total prior referrals and # of prior criminal referrals between recidivated and non-recidivated youth are statistically significant

15. Age at Referral and Informal Action by Re-offense Status Differences for Age at 1st criminal referral are statistically significant

16. Recidivism by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

17. Risk Factors by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

18. Recidivism Rate by Risk Factors *Statistically significant at level of 0.05

19. Summary • Of 271 youth who received informal during 2006, • Excluding referrals associated with informal, the average number of referrals prior to informal action was 1.5. • 45% had criminal referral prior to informal, • 5.2% had violation or status referral • 6.6% had dependency referral • 43.2% did not have pre-informal juvenile justice involvement so the referral that triggered informal was their first referral. • 57 (21.0%) had at least one new criminal referral within one year of informal. • Additional 4.4% of youth recidivated within 24-months of informal • Preliminary analysis indicates that age at 1st criminal referral, and average number of total referrals prior to informal had statistically significant impact on recidivism