Risk Factor Data
Comprehensive Strategy Mahoning County

Home

Glossary
Links
 
 
 
Community
Domain
Family
Domain
School
Domain
Individual/
Peer
Domain

Availability of Drugs

Family History of the Problem Behavior


Early & Persistent
Anti-social Behavior
Alienation & Rebelliousness
Availability of Firearms
Community Laws & Norms Favorable to Drug Use, Firearms & Crime
Family Management Problems

Academic Failure Beginning in Late Elementary School

Friends Who Engage in Problem Behavior
Media Portrayals of Violence
Transitions & Mobility
Family Conflict


Lack of Commitment to School
Favorable Attitudes Toward the Problem Behavior
Low Neighborhood Attachment & Community Disorganization
Extreme Economic Deprivation
Favorable Parental Attitudes & Involvement in the Problem Behavior
Early Initiation of the Problem Behavior

Yellow sections above comprise Mahoning County, Ohio priority risk factors. The gray sections include completed data.

Home   Risk Factors     Indicators

Contact information:
Comprehensive Strategy Mahoning County, Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center, 300 E. Scott Street, Youngstown, OH 44505; Phone: 330.740.2278 x8138; Fax: 330.740.2272; Email: alwhite@mahoningcounty.org This website created by Carol Trube, YSU Center for Urban Studies, April 2001