Mentoring and Other Adult Involvement With Juveniles in Treatment: Do They Decrease the Probability of Elopement?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-21-2008
Description
This paper focuses on whether running away from adolescent residential care facilities is related to having off grounds passes with an adult resource. It was hypothesized that as off grounds passes increased in frequency and duration, runaway behavior would decrease in frequency and duration. Data were collected from two hundred closed client files. Spearman's rho correlation and linear regression were used to analyze the data. Results show a weak negative relationship exists between number of passes and both number of runaway occurrences and hours spent on the run. The data were collected from a single agency, suggesting that caution be used when attempting to generalize to the entire population. The results, however, are very useful to inform future research and guide the development of future hypotheses.
Citation Information
Burford, Michael L.; Nugant, William R.; and Wodarski, John, "Mentoring and Other Adult Involvement With Juveniles in Treatment: Do They Decrease the Probability of Elopement?" (2008). ETSU Faculty Works. 1058.
https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works-2/1058