Purpose: To examine the longitudinal relationship between depression, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency among Hispanic children and adolescents.
Methods: Propensity score matching is used to match depressed and non-depressed youth and a combination of group-based trajectory and multinomial logistic regression techniques are used.
Results: After adjusting for pre-existing differences between depressed and non-depressed youth, the causal relationship between depression and delinquency and the association between depression and trajectories of delinquency appears to be largely spurious. However, the effect of depression on predicting a high rate and increasing trajectory of delinquency is robust.
Conclusions: Depression and high-rate offending are linked in a sample of Hispanic children and adolescents.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6675475 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.08.003 | DOI Listing |
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