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This version was published on July 1, 2008
Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Vol. 6, No. 3, 227-239 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1541204007313382

Predictors of Police Contact Among Midwestern Homeless and Runaway Youth

Lisa Thrane

Wichita State University, lisa.thrane{at}wichita.edu

Xiaojin Chen

Tulane University

Kurt Johnson

Pennsylvania State University

Les B. Whitbeck

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Research has substantiated that homeless and runaway youth are at high risk for offending and deviant behavior. Although gender, abuse, and deviant peers have been implicated in arrests among homeless youth, we know less about whether these precursors operate similarly for police harassment as well as for postrunaway arrest. In a study of 361 Midwestern homeless and runaway youth, several differences were noted between the predictors of arrest and police harassment. First, path-analytic techniques demonstrated that having deviant friends promoted harassment but not arrest. Second, substance use was the impetus for police harassment, whereas age at first runaway was consequential for arrest. Third, physically abused youth encountered more harassment, yet minor delinquent behavior increased the risk of arrest.

Key Words: homeless and runaway adolescents • arrest • police harassment


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