Joseph P Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4370653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph P Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph P |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2683-1577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 604 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Moving Beyond ChatGPT: Local Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Secure Analysis of Confidential Unstructured Text Data in Social Work Research
Purpose: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in natural language tasks. However, their use in social work research is limited by confidentiality and security concerns when processing sensitive data. This study addresses these challenges by evaluating the performance of local LLMs (LocalLLMs) in classifying and extracting substance-related problems from unstructured child welfare investigation summaries. LocalLLMs a…
Teaching Note—Data Science in the MSW Curriculum: Innovating Training in Statistics and Research Methods
Recent and rapid technological advances have given rise to an explosive growth of data, along with low-cost solutions for accessing, collecting, managing, and analyzing data. Despite the advances in technology and the availability of data, social work organizations routinely encounter data-related problems that have an impact on their opportunities for making data-driven decisions. Although training in research methods and statistics is important…
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the Covid-19 pandemic (2019–2020)
Early studies revealed COVID-19ʹs outbreak led to a drastic decline in child maltreatment reports and investigations within child welfare services. However, limited research has documented whether these declines continued throughout the pandemic. Furthermore, our knowledge is limited around whether COVID-19 influenced existing racial disproportionalities given the shock to the child welfare system. This study addresses those gaps by drawing from …
The Push for Racial Equity in Child Welfare: Can Blind Removals Reduce Disproportionality
We conduct the first quantitative analysis of “blind removals,” an increasingly popular reform that seeks to reduce the over‐representation of Black children in foster care by eliminating biases in the removal decisions of investigators. We first show that over‐representation in most foster care systems is driven by Black children being substantially more likely than White children to be investigated for maltreatment to begin with. Conditional on…
Changes in Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (Cans) scores over time: A systematic review
Prospective College Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Parent Perspectives
Young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are attending university in increasing numbers. While those with ASD may be very knowledgeable within their chosen field, a range of academic-related and nonacademic challenges may hinder their success including executive functioning challenges and interpersonal issues. The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary investigation into the perspective of parents of high schoolers with ASD re…
Automated Identification of Domestic Violence in Written Child Welfare Records: Leveraging Text Mining and Machine Learning to Enhance Social Work Research and Evaluation
Objective: Child welfare agencies often lack information about the front-end service needs of the families they serve. Thus, the current study tests the feasibility of text mining and machine learning procedures for identifying problems related to domestic violence documented in child welfare investigation summaries. Method: We labeled child welfare investigation summaries (N = 1,402) for the presence or absence of an active domestic violence ser…
Longitudinal analysis of need-service matching for substance-involved parents in the child welfare system
Substantiated allegations of failure to protect in the child welfare system: Against whom, in what context, and with what justification
Parental Substance Use and Foster Care Reentry
Foster care involvement due to parental substance use is a common problem with many challenges associated with service delivery. Using administrative data from a Midwestern state between the years 2009 and 2015 (N = 17,420), this study examines characteristics of substance-abusing families at the time of entry into the foster care system and estimates the risk of reentry subsequent to reunification. Bivariate findings and survival analysis for re…
Disparities at Adjudication in the Juvenile Justice System: An Examination of Race, Gender, and Age
Black and male youths are overrepresented at every stage of juvenile justice processing. The current study investigated racial, gender, and age disparities in the probability of a formal adjudication using administrative data (N = 12,070) from a large, urban county in the Midwest. The authors extend previous work by considering the joint effect of race, gender, and age on formal adjudications in the juvenile justice system. The findings indicate …
Longitudinal trends in substance use and mental health service needs in child welfare
The Discontinuity of Offending Among African American Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Little is known about what factors contribute to African American youth desisting from offending. Participants were 3,230 moderate- to high-risk adolescents from Washington State who completed a statewide risk assessment to assess the likelihood of recidivism. Participants were screened by juvenile probation officers between 2003 and 2010. Researchers investigated whether youth possessed protective factors and whether developmental change took pl…
Recovery coaches and the stability of reunification for substance abusing families in child welfare
Foster care, geographic neighborhood change, and the risk of delinquency
Running away from child welfare placements: Justice system entry risk
Juvenile justice sentencing: Do gender and child welfare involvement matter
Foster home licensing and risk of reentry to out-of-home care following family reunification
Child Welfare and the Transition to Adulthood: Investigating Placement Status and Subsequent Arrests
Crossover youth post arrest: Placement status and recidivism
The location of placement and juvenile delinquency: Do neighborhoods matter in child welfare
Adolescent Neglect, Juvenile Delinquency and the Risk of Recidivism
The journey of dually-involved youth: The description and prediction of rereporting and recidivism
Substance abuse treatment completion in child welfare: Does substance abuse treatment completion matter in the decision to reunify families
Trying to come home: Substance exposed infants, mothers, and family reunification
Child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency: Investigating the role of placement and placement instability
Juvenile delinquency in child welfare: Investigating group home effects
Integrated services for families with multiple problems: Obstacles to family reunification
Maltreatment and delinquency: Investigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing
Investigating the effects of caseworker characteristics in child welfare
Co-occurring problems for substance abusing mothers in child welfare: Matching services to improve family reunification
Adolescent Neglect, Juvenile Delinquency and the Risk of Recidivism
The journey of dually-involved youth: The description and prediction of rereporting and recidivism
Matching family problems with specific family preservation services: A study of service effectiveness
Kinship foster care and the risk of juvenile delinquency
Placement and Permanency Outcomes for Children in Out-of-Home Care by Prior Inpatient Mental Health Treatment
Objective: This longitudinal study followed 5,978 children in out-of-home care to examine whether placement and permanency outcomes differ between children with and without a history of inpatient mental health treatment. Method: Data were drawn from child welfare and Medicaid records from the state of Illinois. Logistic regression and survival analysis were applied. Results: A history of inpatient mental health treatment preceding out-of-home pla…
Dependent Youth in Juvenile Justice: Do Positive Peer Culture Programs Work for Victims of Child Maltreatment
Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and determine the individual and group-level factors associated with recidivism for children in a long-term Positive Peer Culture (PPC) program. The current study focuses specific attention on the role of child maltreatment in understanding the risk of recidivism. It is widely accepted that victims of child abuse and neglect are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior as compared with their…
Substance abuse treatment completion in child welfare: Does substance abuse treatment completion matter in the decision to reunify families
Allegations of maltreatment and delinquency: Does risk of juvenile arrest vary substantiation status
Longitudinal trends in substance use and mental health service needs in child welfare
Running away from child welfare placements: Justice system entry risk
Crossover youth post arrest: Placement status and recidivism
The location of placement and juvenile delinquency: Do neighborhoods matter in child welfare
Intergenerational families in child welfare: Assessing needs and estimating permanency
Trying to come home: Substance exposed infants, mothers, and family reunification
Reintegration Services and the Likelihood of Adult Imprisonment: A Longitudinal Study of Adjudicated Delinquents
Objective: This study used longitudinal data to identify the factors associated with adult imprisonment for adjudicated delinquent males following long-term residential care. Method: Logistic regression and survival models were developed to examine the effectiveness of reintegrational services. The sample included 397 adjudicated delinquents released between 1992 and 1993 from a residential treatment facility in Michigan. The Michigan Department …
The Discontinuity of Offending Among African American Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Little is known about what factors contribute to African American youth desisting from offending. Participants were 3,230 moderate- to high-risk adolescents from Washington State who completed a statewide risk assessment to assess the likelihood of recidivism. Participants were screened by juvenile probation officers between 2003 and 2010. Researchers investigated whether youth possessed protective factors and whether developmental change took pl…
Juvenile justice sentencing: Do gender and child welfare involvement matter
Moving Beyond ChatGPT: Local Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Secure Analysis of Confidential Unstructured Text Data in Social Work Research
Purpose: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in natural language tasks. However, their use in social work research is limited by confidentiality and security concerns when processing sensitive data. This study addresses these challenges by evaluating the performance of local LLMs (LocalLLMs) in classifying and extracting substance-related problems from unstructured child welfare investigation summaries. LocalLLMs a…
Disparities at Adjudication in the Juvenile Justice System: An Examination of Race, Gender, and Age
Black and male youths are overrepresented at every stage of juvenile justice processing. The current study investigated racial, gender, and age disparities in the probability of a formal adjudication using administrative data (N = 12,070) from a large, urban county in the Midwest. The authors extend previous work by considering the joint effect of race, gender, and age on formal adjudications in the juvenile justice system. The findings indicate …
White Ethnics: Life in Working-Class America
Reintegration Services and the Likelihood of Adult Imprisonment: A Longitudinal Study of Adjudicated Delinquents
Objective: This study used longitudinal data to identify the factors associated with adult imprisonment for adjudicated delinquent males following long-term residential care. Method: Logistic regression and survival models were developed to examine the effectiveness of reintegrational services. The sample included 397 adjudicated delinquents released between 1992 and 1993 from a residential treatment facility in Michigan. The Michigan Department …
Matching family problems with specific family preservation services: A study of service effectiveness
Child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency: Investigating the role of placement and placement instability
Dependent Youth in Juvenile Justice: Do Positive Peer Culture Programs Work for Victims of Child Maltreatment
Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and determine the individual and group-level factors associated with recidivism for children in a long-term Positive Peer Culture (PPC) program. The current study focuses specific attention on the role of child maltreatment in understanding the risk of recidivism. It is widely accepted that victims of child abuse and neglect are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior as compared with their…
Integrated services for families with multiple problems: Obstacles to family reunification
Investigating the effects of caseworker characteristics in child welfare
Maltreatment and delinquency: Investigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing
Co-occurring problems for substance abusing mothers in child welfare: Matching services to improve family reunification
Placement and Permanency Outcomes for Children in Out-of-Home Care by Prior Inpatient Mental Health Treatment
Objective: This longitudinal study followed 5,978 children in out-of-home care to examine whether placement and permanency outcomes differ between children with and without a history of inpatient mental health treatment. Method: Data were drawn from child welfare and Medicaid records from the state of Illinois. Logistic regression and survival analysis were applied. Results: A history of inpatient mental health treatment preceding out-of-home pla…
Juvenile delinquency in child welfare: Investigating group home effects
Challenges Facing Crossover Youth: An Examination of Juvenile‐justice Decision Making and Recidivism
Although a substantial amount of research documents the increased likelihood of maltreated youths to engage in delinquency, very little is known about them once they cross into delinquency. These youths are often referred to as “crossover youth,”“dual jurisdiction,” or “dually involved” youth, and based on a growing amount of research, it appears these youths face a number of challenges. They have significant educational problems, high rates of p…
Kinship foster care and the risk of juvenile delinquency
Trying to come home: Substance exposed infants, mothers, and family reunification
Allegations of maltreatment and delinquency: Does risk of juvenile arrest vary substantiation status
Intergenerational families in child welfare: Assessing needs and estimating permanency
The journey of dually-involved youth: The description and prediction of rereporting and recidivism
Substance abuse treatment completion in child welfare: Does substance abuse treatment completion matter in the decision to reunify families
Adolescent Neglect, Juvenile Delinquency and the Risk of Recidivism
The location of placement and juvenile delinquency: Do neighborhoods matter in child welfare
Crossover youth post arrest: Placement status and recidivism
Recovery coaches and the stability of reunification for substance abusing families in child welfare
Foster care, geographic neighborhood change, and the risk of delinquency
Running away from child welfare placements: Justice system entry risk
Juvenile justice sentencing: Do gender and child welfare involvement matter
Political science (34 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Medicine (28 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (26 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (25 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (24 works) · Welfare (23 works) · Psychiatry (22 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Foster care (16 works)