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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Behav Health Serv Res. 2018 Apr;45(2):237–251. doi: 10.1007/s11414-017-9578-3

Table 1.

Sample characteristics by gender and race/ethnicity

Total (N = 12,476) Male (n = 7411)
Female (n = 5065)
White (n = 2466) Black (n = 4161) Hispanic (n = 431) Other (n = 353) White (n = 1693) Black (n = 2920) Hispanic (n = 225) Other (n = 227)
Youth (%) 100 19.8 33.4 3.5 2.8 13.6 23.4 1.8 1.8
BH service (%)
    None 68.8 55.9 69.4 77.5 56.7 68.2 78.6 84.4 65.2
    Psychiatric 28.5 39.1 29.3 20.2 38.5 26.5 20.4 14.2 32.2
    Substance-use 0.9 1.8 0.3 1.9 1.4 1.8 0.4 0.9 0.9
    Dual-diagnoses 1.7 3.2 0.9 0.5 3.4 3.6 0.5 0.4 1.8
Offense type (%)
    Status 1.9 2.3 1.1 2.6 1.4 4.7 1.1 4.4 1.3
    DC 11.6 6.7 10.1 5.8 8.8 9.8 20.1 8 14.5
    Drag 8.1 14.8 7.8 13.2 12.5 8.3 1.9 6.2 4.8
    Property 33.3 27.9 32.7 36.4 30.3 42.2 32.6 36.9 38.3
    Violent 37.5 37.8 40 26.2 36.3 29.5 40.5 32.9 36.1
    Other 7.6 10.5 8.3 15.8 10.8 5.4 3.9 11.6 4.8
Arrest outcomes (%)a
    Release 90 86.7 87 89.6 85.8 91.1 94.4 94.2 93.4
    Probation 7 9.4 9.1 7.2 9.3 5.3 3.1 4 4
    Detention 6.5 8.1 7.1 6.5 7.4 7.2 4.2 3.6 4
    BH referrals 2.4 4.3 2.3 2.1 3.7 2.5 0.9 1.3 0.9

BH, behavioral health; DC, disorderly conduct

a

Some percentages will exceed 100 due to the multiple outcomes participants can experience