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This study examined the effects of CLS involvement on mental health outcomes among youth in the USA over 10 years.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We used data from 5611 youth from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (2000\u20132010). Using the parametric g-formula, we estimated the risks of (1) depressive symptoms (defined by the Mental Health Inventory 5-item version) and (2) self-reported emotional, mental health or psychiatric problems at the end of the study, adjusted for confounding. To quantify the effect of CLS involvement, we calculated differences in the risks under the natural course of CLS involvement vs under two interventions: (1) removing arrests and incarcerations (\u2018no CLS involvement\u2019) and (2) removing incarcerations only, with 95% CI derived from 300 bootstrap samples.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The end-of-follow-up risk was 9.5% for both depressive symptoms and mental health problems under the natural course of CLS involvement. The \u2018no CLS involvement\u2019 intervention was estimated to lower the risks for depressive symptoms and mental health problems by 0.4 (95% CI \u22120.8 to \u22120.04) and 0.6 (95% CI \u22121.0 to \u22120.3) percentage points, respectively. The estimates for \u2018no incarceration\u2019 did not provide evidence of an effect.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings support the hypothesis that CLS involvement, especially arrests, contributes to poor mental health among youth in adulthood and reaffirms that CLS involvement is a social determinant of mental health in this population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/jech-2026-226202","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]],"date-time":"2026-10-06T17:20:24Z","timestamp":1791307224000},"page":"jech-2026-226202","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Adverse long-term effects of criminal legal system involvement on mental health in adulthood among a longitudinal cohort of youth in the USA"],"prefix":"10.1136","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8781-8299","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pui Ying","family":"Chan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zachary","family":"Shahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, USA"},{"name":"CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, New York, New York, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katarzyna","family":"Wyka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4642-3490","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kristin","family":"Turney","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sociology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Heidi E","family":"Jones","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, USA"},{"name":"CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, New York, New York, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026100610201494000_jech-2026-226202v1.1","unstructured":"Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention . 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