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We are pleased to announce that Leo Tien has successfully defended his MA thesis, 鈥淩isk in Context: The Influence of Birth Era on Criminogenic Risk and Emerging Adult Convictions Among Canadian Justice-Involved Youth.鈥�

Abstract

Individuals born in different historical periods may experience different offending trajectories because they develop under distinct social, economic, and institutional conditions. These cohort differences raise important questions regarding whether structured risk assessments developed using earlier offender populations remain applicable across successive generations. This thesis examined whether birth cohort membership contributed to emerging-adulthood convictions beyond assessed criminogenic risk among Canadian justice-involved youth and whether birth cohort moderated the relationship between criminogenic risk and offending. Using data from 791 participants in the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study, Generalized Estimating Equations tested the independent and interactive effects of birth cohort and criminogenic risk on emerging adulthood convictions. The findings revealed that criminogenic risk and birth cohort capture complementary dimensions of justice involvement in British Columbia, Canada. Criminogenic risk identified youth at greater likelihood of continued justice involvement and birth cohort captured the broader historical environments in which their offending trajectories unfolded.

Congratulations, Leo, on this remarkable achievement!