Louisiana's Next Step in Juvenile Justice Reform: Implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany LaCombe

Author(s):  
Wendy Haight ◽  
Min Hae Cho

“Crossover youth” are maltreated youth who have engaged in delinquency. They are of particular concern to child welfare, juvenile justice, and other professionals because of their risks for problematic developmental outcomes. Effective interventions that promote more positive developmental trajectories require an understanding of the various pathways from maltreatment to delinquency. A growing body of research identifies potential risk and protective processes for maltreated youth crossing over into delinquency at ecological levels ranging from the micro to the macro. Most scholarship, however, is not developmental and provides little insight into how children’s emerging capacities relate to their abilities to actively respond to risk or protective processes. Solutions to crossing over are likely to be found in interventions that simultaneously address risk and protective processes across multiple ecological levels and across development. Emerging research suggests that the Crossover Youth Practice Model is one such promising intervention for improving outcomes for maltreated youth.





2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-394
Author(s):  
Emily M. Wright ◽  
Ryan Spohn ◽  
Michael Campagna

Crossover youth are involved in both child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) promotes collaboration between these systems to inform decision making between the two agencies and better serve these youth. Yet, few outcome evaluations of the CYPM exist, especially those that assess outcomes beyond recidivism, such as case dispositions, case closure, or placement or living situations. This study examined whether the CYPM ( n = 210) decreased recidivism and increased system/case responses and positive outcomes among youth within 9–18 months after the youth’s initial arrest relative to a comparison group of crossover youth ( n = 425) who were arrested 1 year before the CYPM was implemented. Overall, the findings suggest that the CYPM in the jurisdiction under study dismisses or diverts crossover youth more often, closes delinquency cases more often, and leads to more home placements than was previously done in the jurisdiction, but it does not significantly reduce recidivism.





2018 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Flores ◽  
Janelle Hawes ◽  
Angela Westbrooks ◽  
Chanae Henderson


Social Work ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Kolivoski ◽  
Sara Goodkind ◽  
Jeffrey J. Shook


2018 ◽  
pp. 339-362
Author(s):  
Peter J. Pecora ◽  
James K. Whittaker ◽  
Richard P. Barth ◽  
Sharon Borja ◽  
William Vesneski


2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise C. Herz ◽  
Joseph P. Ryan ◽  
Shay Bilchik


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