Correction to “Exploring Variation in the Strength of Association of a Validated Recidivism Risk Score with Seven Common Measures of Juvenile Recidivism: A Research Note”

• Published date: 01 January 2024
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/15412040221123726
• Date: 01 January 2024
• Subject Matter: Erratum

Erratum

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

2024, Vol. 22(1) 61–62

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Correction to “Exploring

Variation in the Strength of

Association of a Validated

Recidivism Risk Score with

Seven Common Measures of

Juvenile Recidivism: A Research

Note”

Siennick, S. E. and Pupo, J. A. (2022). Exploring Variation in the Strength of Association of a

Validated Recidivism Risk Score with Seven Common Measures of Juvenile Recidivism: A

Research Note. YouthViolence and Juvenile Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177/15412040221115056

Following the publication of the research note, the authors discovered an error in the data. When

the data were returned to the original dataset creator for editing, the creator discovered several

additional errors. Some of these errors impacted the research note’s outcome measures. In ad-

dition, the dataset creator indicated that the incarceration data from the adult criminal justice

system were invalid, meaning that the only valid indicators of residential placements came from

the juvenile commitment data. A corrected version of the dataset was issued; this version was

validated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. The authors repeated their analyses on the

reissued dataset and report corrected f‌indings here. The only change to the analyses involved the

sole use of juvenile system information for the marker event comparisons; this was necessitated by

the lack of adult incarceration data.

The conclusions that followed from the multivariate multilevel model remained unchanged, with

one exception: risk score was no longer a stronger predictor of adjudication than of commitment .

All other substantive f‌indings were reproduced (Tables 1 and 2).

Table 1. Descriptive Statistics for Study Variables.

Variable Mean/%

Total risk score 3.127

Referral/arrest within 1 year 59.2%

Referral within 1 year 46.6%

Adjudication within 1 year 32.0%

Commitment within 1 year 17.8%

Adjudication/conviction within 6 months 31.9%

Adjudication/conviction within 1 year 42.7%

Adjudication/conviction within 2 years 50.0%

Note. N = 13,196.