Authors: Haight, W., Cho, W.
Published: May 2021

Twenty-one professionals, serving various roles in child welfare and juvenile justice systems, described risk factors for delinquency among maltreated children at multiple ecological levels: individual youth, parent-child relationships, and child-serving systems. Professionals also considered the involvement of maltreated children in delinquency to be a complex issue reflecting the social, cultural, and practice contexts.

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Practice Notes is published by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. This issue was supported, in part, by grant #GRK129722 from Minnesota Department of Human Service, Children and Family Services Division.