James Schmeidler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 237494 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Schmeidler |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Schmeidler |
| FIRMA | SCHMEIDLER J |
| AFILIACIONES | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2134-8984 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Two-Level, Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Single Factor Savry Individual/Clinical Risk Measure Across Mississippi Juvenile Court Jurisdictions
The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), widely used to assess risk and protective factors among justice-involved youth, demonstrates predictive validity with regard to recidivism. At the individual level, the dynamic Individual/Clinical Risk Factor of the SAVRY has previously demonstrated consistent form across gender and race among Mississippi justice-involved youth. Little is known about the factor structure of the Individu…
Trauma-Informed Understanding of Depression Among Justice-Involved Youth
The association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and depression has been the focus of a number of prevalent studies in recent years-particularly among high-risk youth. Depression remains a significant mental health issue among justice-involved youth. There is a well-established correlation between depressed mood and conduct problems (e.g., conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder) during childhood and adolescence, which tend…
Assessment of a Second-Order Multi-Problem Factor Model Involving Sexual Partners, Marijuana Use, and Post-Arrest Placement Among Persistent Male Adolescent Delinquents
Problem-behavior theory suggests problem behaviors (e.g. substance use and delinquency) cluster among adolescents. This study explored a second-order problem behavior model of marijuana use, sexual partners, and post-arrest juvenile justice system placement among male adolescents over three waves. Results confirmed a second-order latent factor of problem behaviors, with male adolescents persistently involved in the juvenile justice system experie…
Longitudinal Cohort Study
Many juvenile justice agencies have moved toward risk-need-responsivity and risk-need-assessment approaches to manage youth and reduce future risk of recidivism. The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) instrument is a popular tool to assess risk and protective factors among justice-involved youth. The present study explored the consistency of the Individual/Clinical Risk measure, comprised of eight items (e.g., anger, negative…
Subgroups of Persistent Juvenile Offenders
Many juvenile justice agencies rely on risk assessments to inform administrative decisions about youth placement. While many studies within recent years have explored patterns in criminal offending over time, little research has explored the heterogeneity in youth placement decisions by the juvenile justice system. There is a need to document the patterns, levels, and trends in offense risk among youth entering and reentering the justice system. …
Longitudinal associations between a health risk factor and juvenile justice placement among persistent juvenile offenders
Health criminology explores the connection between crime and health factors. Less is understood about longitudinal health risks and adolescents entering the juvenile justice system. This study used a sample of n = 388 males involved in the juvenile justice system to examined longitudinal associations of a latent health risk factor, comprised of depression, marijuana use, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with post‐juvenile assessment ce…
Assessing the Validity of Self-Reports of Marijuana Use among Adolescents Entering the Juvenile Justice System
Objective: Scant research exists on the validity of self-reported marijuana use using biological assays among adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. This exploratory study examined gender (sex) differences in underreporting of marijuana use and the impact of age, race/ethnicity, living situation, depression, family problems, sexual risk behaviors, previous drug treatment, and juvenile justice placement. Methods: Self-reports of past…
An Examination of Risk Profiles among Justice-Involved Girls
Studies addressing risk factors among justice-involved girls in rural areas remain a neglected area of research. Following an intersectional framework, the current study examines the patterning of a broad range of risk factors and health needs, across urban and rural contexts, among arrested African American, Hispanic, and white females who participated in a public health service. Results from a latent class analysis suggest significant differenc…
An Examination of Gender Differences in Bullying among Justice-involved Adolescents
Most studies of bullying rely on school-based samples of youth; however, a few studies of justice-involved populations suggest delinquent youth experience higher rates of bullying than youth in the general population. Little is known about gender differences in bullying among justice-involved youth. Using data from a Health Coach service project for justice-involve youth implemented at two intake facilities, 312 female and 857 male newly arrested…
Individual- and Community-Level Factors in the STD Status of Justice-Involved Youth
Neuropsychological Test Performance in Cognitively Normal Spanish-speaking Nonagenarians with Little Education
Stigma of mental illness, religious change, and explanatory models of mental illness among Jewish patients at a mental-health clinic in North Jerusalem
During 3 months in 2004, 38 recent referrals to a Community Mental Health Clinic in North Jerusalem, a substantially Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, were evaluated by the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue. This questionnaire, which includes a 13-item scale measuring stigma towards mental illness, was adapted and translated into Hebrew. Patients with a more religious upbringing expressed a greater sense of stigma towards mental illness; ho…
Children Who Lost a Parent as a Result of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
Children who experience traumatic bereavement in the context of catastrophic disasters are at increased risk for developing post-disaster problems. Despite massive loss of life on September 11th, 2001, no public data were collected on those children who lost a parent in the multiple terrorist attacks. Such a registry would be an important public health tool to help mitigate the consequences of traumatic bereavement and to guide health surveillanc…
Testing a Model of the Influence of Family Problem Factors on High-Risk Youths' Troubled Behavior
Using data collected in a study of arrested youths processed at a juvenile assessment center who entered a home-based family intervention project, the authors test a three-stage longitudinal model. The model reflects a developmental damage view of the relationships of the youths' family problems (including their physical abuse and sexual victimization experiences) to their drug use and delinquent behavior over time. The hypothesized model is supp…
The inpatient Aids unit
An AIDS unit model ("cluster beds") and a general inpatient placement model ("scatter beds") in a major teaching hospital were compared to determine whether they differed on several dimensions of care. After controlling for severity of illness, (the major predictor of admission to the AIDS unit), length of stay, charges, and inpatient mortality rates did not differ between the two settings. Equal proportions of White, Hispanic, male, and privatel…
Drug Abuse among Juvenile Detainees
Although recent surveys of youths in the general population indicate that drug use has declined, drug use among juvenile detainees remains at a high level. These youths, who are often experiencing multiple problems, are a seriously underserved population group in our society. A review of the literature, and results from an ongoing longitudinal study of juvenile detainees in Tampa, Florida, documenting their drug use and related problems, lead to …
Examining a structural model of the relationships among alcohol use, marijuana/hashish use, their effects, and emotional and psychological problems over time in a cohort of high-risk youths
Using data collected in a longitudinal study of detained juveniles, we test a model of the relationships among alcohol and marijuana or hashish use, reported adverse effects of the use of these substances, and emotional and psychological problems. Significant interrelationships were found among these factors over time. Degree of involvement in alcohol and marijuana or hashish use (measured either by self‐reports or both self‐reports and urine tes…
Weighting Procedures for Ethnographic Random Samples
Repartions des poids pour les échantillons au hasard éthnographiques. Dans l'échantillonnage au hasard, le sociologue n'exerce aucune influence sur le choix de répondants. Au contraire, l'éthnographe choisit des répondants par rapport à leur valeur d'informateur. Cette étude présente "l'échantillonnage éthnographique au hasard" où un échantillon est choisi comme en ethnographie mais avec une sélection au hasard dans des strates semblables de répo…
Further Examination of the Association Between Heavy Marijuana Use and Crime Among Youths Entering a Juvenile Detention Center
(1987). Further Examination of the Association Between Heavy Marijuana Use and Crime Among Youths Entering a Juvenile Detention Center. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 361-373
Parents and Drugs Revisited
Social control and social learning theories suggest divergent relationships between attachment to parents and children's drug use when level of parent drug use is considered. Social control theory proposes a uniformly negative relationship between children's drug use and attachment to parents whereas social learning theory proposes that the relationship is affected by parental drug use. The relationship between attachment to parents and children'…
Taking Care of Business
The influence of family relationships on marijuana use among a sample of inner city youths
This study of the etiology of drug use explores the influence of family relationship variables (parental support) on self‐identification, and alcohol and marijuana use of 258 inner‐city, male adolescents. A latent variable structural model of the effect of parental support on alcohol and drug use, mediated by self‐identification, was estimated using a maximum likelihood solution. Results support the adequacy of the model. Perceived family support…
Toward a holistic model for predicting community reentry performance
The design of live assessment contexts that more closely approximate the demands of life in the community than do measures upon which dispositional decisions are currently based is proposed. The usefulness of two such contexts in predicting the community reentry performance of 205 briefly hospitalized psychiatric patients is examined and discussed
Processes of early drug involvement in three inner-city neighborhood settings
The present paper explores the drug use of a sample of inner‐city junior high school youths by examining a hypothesized, interactive relationship between the perceived toughness/drug use in their neighborhood and the youths’ demographic, neighborhood orientation/involvement, and drug use context factors in regard to their drug involvement. In support of our hypothesis, discriminant analysis indicated that different processes were reflected in the…
Examining a Causal Model of Early Drug Involvement among Inner-City Junior High School Youths
Reflecting the need to construct more inclusive, socially and culturally relevant conceptions of drug use than currently exist, this paper investigates the determinants of drug involvement among inner-city youths within the context of a causal model. The drug involvement of the Black and Puerto Rican junior high school girls and boys studied is hypothesized to result from their home composition, felt relationships with parents, attitudes toward s…
Parents and Drugs Revisited
Social control and social learning theories suggest divergent relationships between attachment to parents and children's drug use when level of parent drug use is considered. Social control theory proposes a uniformly negative relationship between children's drug use and attachment to parents whereas social learning theory proposes that the relationship is affected by parental drug use. The relationship between attachment to parents and children'…
The inpatient Aids unit
An AIDS unit model ("cluster beds") and a general inpatient placement model ("scatter beds") in a major teaching hospital were compared to determine whether they differed on several dimensions of care. After controlling for severity of illness, (the major predictor of admission to the AIDS unit), length of stay, charges, and inpatient mortality rates did not differ between the two settings. Equal proportions of White, Hispanic, male, and privatel…
The influence of family relationships on marijuana use among a sample of inner city youths
This study of the etiology of drug use explores the influence of family relationship variables (parental support) on self‐identification, and alcohol and marijuana use of 258 inner‐city, male adolescents. A latent variable structural model of the effect of parental support on alcohol and drug use, mediated by self‐identification, was estimated using a maximum likelihood solution. Results support the adequacy of the model. Perceived family support…
Examining a Causal Model of Early Drug Involvement among Inner-City Junior High School Youths
Reflecting the need to construct more inclusive, socially and culturally relevant conceptions of drug use than currently exist, this paper investigates the determinants of drug involvement among inner-city youths within the context of a causal model. The drug involvement of the Black and Puerto Rican junior high school girls and boys studied is hypothesized to result from their home composition, felt relationships with parents, attitudes toward s…
An Examination of Gender Differences in Bullying among Justice-involved Adolescents
Most studies of bullying rely on school-based samples of youth; however, a few studies of justice-involved populations suggest delinquent youth experience higher rates of bullying than youth in the general population. Little is known about gender differences in bullying among justice-involved youth. Using data from a Health Coach service project for justice-involve youth implemented at two intake facilities, 312 female and 857 male newly arrested…
Processes of early drug involvement in three inner-city neighborhood settings
The present paper explores the drug use of a sample of inner‐city junior high school youths by examining a hypothesized, interactive relationship between the perceived toughness/drug use in their neighborhood and the youths’ demographic, neighborhood orientation/involvement, and drug use context factors in regard to their drug involvement. In support of our hypothesis, discriminant analysis indicated that different processes were reflected in the…
Children Who Lost a Parent as a Result of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
Children who experience traumatic bereavement in the context of catastrophic disasters are at increased risk for developing post-disaster problems. Despite massive loss of life on September 11th, 2001, no public data were collected on those children who lost a parent in the multiple terrorist attacks. Such a registry would be an important public health tool to help mitigate the consequences of traumatic bereavement and to guide health surveillanc…
Examining a structural model of the relationships among alcohol use, marijuana/hashish use, their effects, and emotional and psychological problems over time in a cohort of high-risk youths
Using data collected in a longitudinal study of detained juveniles, we test a model of the relationships among alcohol and marijuana or hashish use, reported adverse effects of the use of these substances, and emotional and psychological problems. Significant interrelationships were found among these factors over time. Degree of involvement in alcohol and marijuana or hashish use (measured either by self‐reports or both self‐reports and urine tes…
Weighting Procedures for Ethnographic Random Samples
Repartions des poids pour les échantillons au hasard éthnographiques. Dans l'échantillonnage au hasard, le sociologue n'exerce aucune influence sur le choix de répondants. Au contraire, l'éthnographe choisit des répondants par rapport à leur valeur d'informateur. Cette étude présente "l'échantillonnage éthnographique au hasard" où un échantillon est choisi comme en ethnographie mais avec une sélection au hasard dans des strates semblables de répo…
Demographic, Value, and Behavior Correlates of Marijuana Use among Middle-Class Youths
Richard Dembo, James Schmeidler, Mary Koval, Demographic, Value, and Behavior Correlates of Marijuana Use among Middle-Class Youths, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 176-186
On Cooper's Nonparametric Test
In a recent paper, Cooper presented a nonparametric test for increasing (or decreasing) trend. This test is based upon comparisons of the order of all possible pairs of observations. Cooper assumes that the order of each pair is independent of the order of each other pair. Whenever two pairs have an observation in common, such an assumption is not valid. This changes the distribution of the statistic, which is equivalent to Kendall's tau. It also…
Factors in the Drug Involvement of Inner City Junior High School Youths
DATA from a survey of youths attending an inner city junior high school were examined to learn how their demographic characteristics, socio-cultural experiences and the drug use existing among their neighbourhood peers related to their involvement with substances. Discriminant analysis uncovered two important factors that were associated with the youths' drug taking : (1) a street scene, social / recreational drug use factor and (2) a cluster ref…
Examining a Causal Model of Early Drug Involvement among Inner-City Junior High School Youths
Reflecting the need to construct more inclusive, socially and culturally relevant conceptions of drug use than currently exist, this paper investigates the determinants of drug involvement among inner-city youths within the context of a causal model. The drug involvement of the Black and Puerto Rican junior high school girls and boys studied is hypothesized to result from their home composition, felt relationships with parents, attitudes toward s…
Processes of early drug involvement in three inner-city neighborhood settings
The present paper explores the drug use of a sample of inner‐city junior high school youths by examining a hypothesized, interactive relationship between the perceived toughness/drug use in their neighborhood and the youths’ demographic, neighborhood orientation/involvement, and drug use context factors in regard to their drug involvement. In support of our hypothesis, discriminant analysis indicated that different processes were reflected in the…
Toward a holistic model for predicting community reentry performance
The design of live assessment contexts that more closely approximate the demands of life in the community than do measures upon which dispositional decisions are currently based is proposed. The usefulness of two such contexts in predicting the community reentry performance of 205 briefly hospitalized psychiatric patients is examined and discussed
The influence of family relationships on marijuana use among a sample of inner city youths
This study of the etiology of drug use explores the influence of family relationship variables (parental support) on self‐identification, and alcohol and marijuana use of 258 inner‐city, male adolescents. A latent variable structural model of the effect of parental support on alcohol and drug use, mediated by self‐identification, was estimated using a maximum likelihood solution. Results support the adequacy of the model. Perceived family support…
Parents and Drugs Revisited
Social control and social learning theories suggest divergent relationships between attachment to parents and children's drug use when level of parent drug use is considered. Social control theory proposes a uniformly negative relationship between children's drug use and attachment to parents whereas social learning theory proposes that the relationship is affected by parental drug use. The relationship between attachment to parents and children'…
Taking Care of Business
Further Examination of the Association Between Heavy Marijuana Use and Crime Among Youths Entering a Juvenile Detention Center
(1987). Further Examination of the Association Between Heavy Marijuana Use and Crime Among Youths Entering a Juvenile Detention Center. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 361-373
Weighting Procedures for Ethnographic Random Samples
Repartions des poids pour les échantillons au hasard éthnographiques. Dans l'échantillonnage au hasard, le sociologue n'exerce aucune influence sur le choix de répondants. Au contraire, l'éthnographe choisit des répondants par rapport à leur valeur d'informateur. Cette étude présente "l'échantillonnage éthnographique au hasard" où un échantillon est choisi comme en ethnographie mais avec une sélection au hasard dans des strates semblables de répo…
The inpatient Aids unit
An AIDS unit model ("cluster beds") and a general inpatient placement model ("scatter beds") in a major teaching hospital were compared to determine whether they differed on several dimensions of care. After controlling for severity of illness, (the major predictor of admission to the AIDS unit), length of stay, charges, and inpatient mortality rates did not differ between the two settings. Equal proportions of White, Hispanic, male, and privatel…
Drug Abuse among Juvenile Detainees
Although recent surveys of youths in the general population indicate that drug use has declined, drug use among juvenile detainees remains at a high level. These youths, who are often experiencing multiple problems, are a seriously underserved population group in our society. A review of the literature, and results from an ongoing longitudinal study of juvenile detainees in Tampa, Florida, documenting their drug use and related problems, lead to …
Examining a structural model of the relationships among alcohol use, marijuana/hashish use, their effects, and emotional and psychological problems over time in a cohort of high-risk youths
Using data collected in a longitudinal study of detained juveniles, we test a model of the relationships among alcohol and marijuana or hashish use, reported adverse effects of the use of these substances, and emotional and psychological problems. Significant interrelationships were found among these factors over time. Degree of involvement in alcohol and marijuana or hashish use (measured either by self‐reports or both self‐reports and urine tes…
Testing a Model of the Influence of Family Problem Factors on High-Risk Youths' Troubled Behavior
Using data collected in a study of arrested youths processed at a juvenile assessment center who entered a home-based family intervention project, the authors test a three-stage longitudinal model. The model reflects a developmental damage view of the relationships of the youths' family problems (including their physical abuse and sexual victimization experiences) to their drug use and delinquent behavior over time. The hypothesized model is supp…
Children Who Lost a Parent as a Result of the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
Children who experience traumatic bereavement in the context of catastrophic disasters are at increased risk for developing post-disaster problems. Despite massive loss of life on September 11th, 2001, no public data were collected on those children who lost a parent in the multiple terrorist attacks. Such a registry would be an important public health tool to help mitigate the consequences of traumatic bereavement and to guide health surveillanc…
Stigma of mental illness, religious change, and explanatory models of mental illness among Jewish patients at a mental-health clinic in North Jerusalem
During 3 months in 2004, 38 recent referrals to a Community Mental Health Clinic in North Jerusalem, a substantially Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, were evaluated by the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue. This questionnaire, which includes a 13-item scale measuring stigma towards mental illness, was adapted and translated into Hebrew. Patients with a more religious upbringing expressed a greater sense of stigma towards mental illness; ho…
Neuropsychological Test Performance in Cognitively Normal Spanish-speaking Nonagenarians with Little Education
Individual- and Community-Level Factors in the STD Status of Justice-Involved Youth
An Examination of Gender Differences in Bullying among Justice-involved Adolescents
Most studies of bullying rely on school-based samples of youth; however, a few studies of justice-involved populations suggest delinquent youth experience higher rates of bullying than youth in the general population. Little is known about gender differences in bullying among justice-involved youth. Using data from a Health Coach service project for justice-involve youth implemented at two intake facilities, 312 female and 857 male newly arrested…
Assessing the Validity of Self-Reports of Marijuana Use among Adolescents Entering the Juvenile Justice System
Objective: Scant research exists on the validity of self-reported marijuana use using biological assays among adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system. This exploratory study examined gender (sex) differences in underreporting of marijuana use and the impact of age, race/ethnicity, living situation, depression, family problems, sexual risk behaviors, previous drug treatment, and juvenile justice placement. Methods: Self-reports of past…
An Examination of Risk Profiles among Justice-Involved Girls
Studies addressing risk factors among justice-involved girls in rural areas remain a neglected area of research. Following an intersectional framework, the current study examines the patterning of a broad range of risk factors and health needs, across urban and rural contexts, among arrested African American, Hispanic, and white females who participated in a public health service. Results from a latent class analysis suggest significant differenc…
Longitudinal associations between a health risk factor and juvenile justice placement among persistent juvenile offenders
Health criminology explores the connection between crime and health factors. Less is understood about longitudinal health risks and adolescents entering the juvenile justice system. This study used a sample of n = 388 males involved in the juvenile justice system to examined longitudinal associations of a latent health risk factor, comprised of depression, marijuana use, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with post‐juvenile assessment ce…
Longitudinal Cohort Study
Many juvenile justice agencies have moved toward risk-need-responsivity and risk-need-assessment approaches to manage youth and reduce future risk of recidivism. The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) instrument is a popular tool to assess risk and protective factors among justice-involved youth. The present study explored the consistency of the Individual/Clinical Risk measure, comprised of eight items (e.g., anger, negative…
Subgroups of Persistent Juvenile Offenders
Many juvenile justice agencies rely on risk assessments to inform administrative decisions about youth placement. While many studies within recent years have explored patterns in criminal offending over time, little research has explored the heterogeneity in youth placement decisions by the juvenile justice system. There is a need to document the patterns, levels, and trends in offense risk among youth entering and reentering the justice system. …
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