Summary of Journal
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) was examined in the article Long-term Prevention of Criminality in Siblings of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: A 25-year Follow-up to a Randomized Clinical Trial of Multisystemic Therapy. Wagner, Borduin, Sawyer, and Dropp (2014) recognize MST as a family centered therapy used to change behaviors and improve life outcomes for juvenile criminal offenders. The authors expressed that the current knowledge base indicated MST could have an effect on siblings.
Wagner et al. identified MST’s ability to influence the systems surrounding a juvenile offender. As such, the authors acknowledge that members of a family system should be impacted in some way when MST is implemented. They also note siblings …show more content…
The authors did not describe how informed consent was presented to the individuals participating in the present study. The siblings selected as participant were placed into two groups. One group consisted of only siblings of offenders that received MST and the other group corresponded to the offenders that received IT. The groups included older and younger siblings. Fifty percent of the siblings were boys, and 86% of participants were identified as white. The researchers determined the two groups were not statistically different from one another when their demographic information was …show more content…
Arrest records were found using the internet to access public records. The researchers accessing the records were blind to the intervention groups associated to the participants. Only arrests for which the siblings were convicted were included in the data set for the study. The dates of conviction were also recorded in code as a misdemeanor or felony. In additions researchers recorded the number of years a sibling was sentenced to incarceration or parole. All rhe data obtained was then analyzed using three statistical methods.
Researchers first used descriptive statistics to compare the two groups of siblings. This method compared how often siblings were arrested versus not arrested, and the analysis produced the relative odds of arrest for each group. The analysis found the IT associated group of siblings had a 3.36 times greater odds than the MST group of being arrested during the 25 years under review. The finding were found to be statistically
Multisystemic Therapy (MST) was examined in the article Long-term Prevention of Criminality in Siblings of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: A 25-year Follow-up to a Randomized Clinical Trial of Multisystemic Therapy. Wagner, Borduin, Sawyer, and Dropp (2014) recognize MST as a family centered therapy used to change behaviors and improve life outcomes for juvenile criminal offenders. The authors expressed that the current knowledge base indicated MST could have an effect on siblings.
Wagner et al. identified MST’s ability to influence the systems surrounding a juvenile offender. As such, the authors acknowledge that members of a family system should be impacted in some way when MST is implemented. They also note siblings …show more content…
The authors did not describe how informed consent was presented to the individuals participating in the present study. The siblings selected as participant were placed into two groups. One group consisted of only siblings of offenders that received MST and the other group corresponded to the offenders that received IT. The groups included older and younger siblings. Fifty percent of the siblings were boys, and 86% of participants were identified as white. The researchers determined the two groups were not statistically different from one another when their demographic information was …show more content…
Arrest records were found using the internet to access public records. The researchers accessing the records were blind to the intervention groups associated to the participants. Only arrests for which the siblings were convicted were included in the data set for the study. The dates of conviction were also recorded in code as a misdemeanor or felony. In additions researchers recorded the number of years a sibling was sentenced to incarceration or parole. All rhe data obtained was then analyzed using three statistical methods.
Researchers first used descriptive statistics to compare the two groups of siblings. This method compared how often siblings were arrested versus not arrested, and the analysis produced the relative odds of arrest for each group. The analysis found the IT associated group of siblings had a 3.36 times greater odds than the MST group of being arrested during the 25 years under review. The finding were found to be statistically