Measures Table

Our measures fall into two broad categories:

  1. Concrete behavioral outcomes that have a measurable (or at least estimable) cost or benefit associated with them
  2. Psychological mediators that help explain the mechanisms through which various aspects of formal and informal processing are linked to these behavioral outcomes.

While we assess antisocial outcomes (e.g., re-offending, re-arrest) that are central to any evaluation of the differential consequences of formal versus informal processing, we also focus on other behavioral outcomes that will have identifiable financial costs or benefits associated with them.  For example, the educational experiences of these youth, such as school performance, drop-out and graduation rates, attendance, truancy, disciplinary problems, and enrollment in special education are critical measures of interest.  Outcomes are also assessed in the domains of employment (e.g., type of job, wages earned, number of hours employed), physical health (e.g., injury, substance use, obesity, STD’s, illness, receipt of medical services, emergency room contacts), mental health (e.g., psychiatric diagnoses, psychological symptoms, receipt of mental health services), and fertility (e.g., pregnancy, childbearing).

Below is a link to the Crossroads measures table that indicates: a) the order in which they appear during the interview; and b) at what waves each was administered. 

Access Measures Table Here