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Raina, Poonam; Arenovich, Tamara; Jones, Jessica; Lunsky, Yona – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: Studies focusing on pathways in the criminal justice system for individuals with intellectual disability are limited in that they only study individuals once they are involved in the system and do not consider the pathways into it. The purpose of this study is to examine predisposing factors that lead to various outcomes for…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Crime, At Risk Persons, Police
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Kataoka, Sheryl; Stein, Bradley D.; Nadeem, Erum; Wong, Marleen – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To examine symptomatology and mental health service use following students' contact with a large urban school district's suicide prevention program. Method: In 2001 school district staff conducted telephone interviews with 95 randomly selected parents approximately 5 months following their child's contact with the district's suicide…
Descriptors: Health Services, Urban Schools, Crisis Intervention, Prevention
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Weitzman, Beth C.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1992
Studies the degree to which psychiatric and substance abuse problems and victimization place families at elevated risk of requiring emergency housing and prevalence of these problems among 677 mothers in families requesting shelter and 495 comparison-group housed mothers in New York City. Problems, reported infrequently, correlate with…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Comparative Analysis, Crisis Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged