What Protects Against Delinquency? Connection.

A recent study examined whether connections to school, parent figures and neighborhoods impact the likelihood that young people who have been abused will engage in future violent and nonviolent criminal activity. Authors describe how to tell if a connection is protective in nature, as well as their effect on various subpopulations. RHY programs should consider ways of strengthening these ties for individual youth, and how to build a sense of neighbor-like community for RHY in transitional housing.

Read the study here: 
https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SchoolFamilyCommunityYouthMaltreatment_ChildTrends_July2018.pdf