APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Longitudinal Effects of Police Contact on Suicidal Behaviors: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis
- Sara Schiff
UCLA Psychology Department - Jocelyn Meza
UCLA Semel Institute - Steve Lee
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Suicide is a leading cause of death for youth and is associated with Juvenile Legal System involvement. Using propensity score matching, we tested the association of police contact with suicidal outcomes two years later across adolescence. Police contact did not uniquely predict suicidality; however, related risk and protective factors did.
Suicide
