Table 3.

Prospective Predictors of Juvenile Detention Within 12 Months

Variables	β	S.E.	Wald	Odds Ratio
Demographics
Age	0.04 (0.33)	0.12 (0.09)	0.11 (13.88)	1.04 (1.39^***)
Gender	0.88 (0.99)	0.34 (0.29)	60.61 (12.01)	2.42^ (2.68^*)
Out-of-home	0.31 (1.08)	0.58 (0.37)	0.29 (8.44)	1.37 (2.93^*)
Race and ethnicity	0.27 (0.12)	0.33 (0.26)	0.67 (0.21)	1.31 (1.12)
Legal history
Prior status offender	0.69 (0.99)	0.37 (0.28)	3.44 (12.19)	2.00 (2.68^***)
Prior criminal offender	1.10 (1.67)	0.40 (0.30)	7.70 (3.61)	3.01^ (5.31^*)
Psychiatric factors
Prior inpatient hospitalization	0.68 (0.87)	0.42 (0.32)	2.62 (70.30)	1.98 (2.40^**)
Disruptive behavior disorder	−0.21 (0.11)	0.32 (0.25)	0.42 (0.20)	0.81 (1.12)
Dual diagnosis	1.76 (1.80)	0.49 (0.29)	12.90 (38.57)	5.83^* (6.03^*)
Number of diagnoses	−0.21 (0.31)	0.23 (0.12)	0.79 (6.69)	0.81 (1.36^**)

n = 336; 68 cases were missing due to the listwise deletion inherent in least regression procedures. Data in parentheses represent unadjusted statistics.
↵* p < .05;
↵** p < .01;
↵*** p < .0001.