Depression In Adult Prisons

In the study conducted by Ng et al they looked into previous studies to see how depression was assessed in juvenile youth who were incarcerated. In Shook, (2005) they discovered that in the 1980’s and 1990’s the trend of getting tough was consistent in almost every state and in Shook and Sarri (2008) there was an increase in the number of juvenile youths who ha committed less serious offences that were sentenced to adult prisons. Washburn et al (2008) compared depression among youths who were processed into an adult justice system instead of a juvenile one. Ng et al established that they wanted to study the incarceration of juveniles in adult prisons and if this plays a factor in the occurrence of depression. For this research they compared four groups of individuals: youth incarcerated for …show more content…
Each individual was given the chance to terminate participation. Both the DOC and the DHS gave written approval for this test. The data collected was used to compare depression among youths in different types of incarceration with non-incarcerated youths, and also controlling other predictors of depression such as the offence type, family poverty, parental incarceration history, and demographic profile. The dependent variable for this experimental design was the depression among the youths while the independent variables were incarcerations type, parental incarceration, public assistance, weapon offence, and demographic profile which in this case was mostly white males. During the experiment researches used the Panel Study of Income Dynamics which provided a longitudinal study on families since 1968 based on the incarcerated and non-incarcerated youths. At the end of the experiment the results showed that More than half of the youths from the DOC who were placed in adult prisons reported