Abstract
Research has supported the notion that ethnoracial minorities in the juvenile justice system use fewer mental health services than Caucasians do. The authors’ aim was to examine potential sociodemographic (including racial background) associations with the use of mental health and residential care among juvenile delinquents adjudicated through court services. The authors extracted demographic, mental health, and residential care data from archival records of 149 juveniles consecutively adjudicated from a midwestern city’s juvenile court services facility (from 1999 to 2002). The authors found no significant associations with mental health treatment or residential care utilization based on ethnoracial background, age, gender, and educational level, neither in bivariate nor multivariate analyses. Implications for policy in the juvenile justice system are discussed.
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