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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Life Course Res. 2010 Dec;15(4):161–170. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2010.10.005

Table 5.

Marginal Effect of Juvenile Delinquency on Adult Criminal Behavior in the CLS

Criminal Behavior through age 26 One or More
Juvenile Court
Petitions		 No Juvenile
Court
Petitions		 Effect of Juvenile Court
Petition on Probability
of Criminal Behavior
  Any arrest, % 70.8 36.1 34.7
  Any felony arrest, % 39.3 10.6 28.7
  Any incarceration, % 27.7 5.6 22.1
  Any violent offense conviction, % 20.5 5.4 15.1

Marginal effects estimates are from probit regression models predicting adult criminal behavior from juvenile Delinquency. Effects are adjusted for 8 indicators of early risk status (see Table 2), gender, race/ethnicity, child welfare history, and a dummy-coded variable for missing data on risk status. All Effects are significant at the .001 level.