TABLE VII.

Juvenile Temporary Detention Center Study 3: Baseline Characteristics

Baseline characteristic	Control	Treatment
	No. of spells = 1,322	No. of spells = 1,371
Demographics
Age	16.13	16.15
Black	0.83	0.84
Hispanic	0.14	0.12
White	0.03	0.03
Other	0.01	0.01
No. of prior JTDC spells including focal spell	3.35	3.19
Reason for JTDC admission
Violent crime	0.17	0.18
Property crime	0.10	0.09
Drug crime	0.08	0.07
Other crime	0.35	0.35
Directly admitted (no police arrest recorded)	0.30	0.30
Number of prior arrests
All offenses	8.25	7.85*
Violent offenses	2.11	2.00
Property offenses	1.55	1.49
Drug offenses	1.34	1.25
Other offenses	3.22	3.08
Neighborhood characteristics
Percent adults 25+ with at least HS diploma	72.80	72.75
Percent black	69.13	68.12
Percent Hispanic	17.71	18.44
Percent below poverty	34.54	34.58
Unemployment rate	18.59	18.58
p-value on F-test of treatment-controlcomparison for all baseline characteristics	.65

Notes. Asterisks indicate statistical significance of pairwise treatment-control comparison for a given baseline characteristic, clustering standard errors on individual and clustering on census tract for the neighborhood characteristics. Neighborhood characteristics come from geocoding address information and linking to tract level data from the American Community Survey. Joint significance test for equality of all baseline characteristics uses only nonmissing data (n = 2,643) and clusters standard errors on individual. * p < .10, ** p < .05, *** p < .01.