Citation

Richardson JB, Brakle MV. J. Correct. Health Care 2011; 17(4): 319-328.

Affiliation

1Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (USA), Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1078345811413081

PMID

22067116

Abstract

For many poor, African American families living in the inner city, the juvenile justice system has become a de facto mental health service provider. In this article, longitudinal, ethnographic study methods were used to examine how resource-deprived, inner-city parents in a New York City community relied on the juvenile justice system to provide their African American male children with mental health care resources. The results of three case studies indicate that this strategy actually contributed to an escalation in delinquency among the youth.

Language: en