RT Article
T1 Adolescent Violent Delinquency Associated With Increased Emergency Department Usage in Young Adulthood
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 67
IS 8
SP 739
OP 756
A1 Portnoy, Jill
A2 Schwartz, Joseph A.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843374773
AB Limited research has examined the extent to which adolescent delinquency predicts healthcare usage in young adulthood, including emergency department (ED) visits. This study used data from 3,310 adolescents (52.05% female; mean age at Wave I = 16.04 years) from the sibling subsample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). We examined whether adolescent delinquency at Wave I predicted ED visits at Wave III using sibling fixed effects models to adjust estimates for within-family unobserved heterogeneity. Increased violent, but not nonviolent, delinquency predicted a higher number of ED visits in early adulthood in the sibling fixed effects models. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between delinquency and ED usage using a sibling fixed effects design. Findings demonstrate that violent adolescent delinquency may increase healthcare usage and suggest the potential role of healthcare providers in improving outcomes for delinquent youth.
K1 Adolescence
K1 Violence
K1 sibling fixed effects
K1 emergency department
K1 Delinquency
DO 10.1177/0306624X211066835