Research Findings
Truancy Reduction: Keeping
Students in School
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
(OJJDP), September 2001 (NCJ
188947)
Findings indicate that chronic truancy is a key predictor for negative outcomes in education, employment, and social success. Truancy has been linked to serious delinquent activity in youths and to significant negative behavior and characteristics in adults, including substance abuse, gang activity, burglary, auto theft, and vandalism. This Bulletin discusses two programs—Abolish Chronic Truancy (ACT) Now and the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program—that have worked to intervene with chronic truants, address the root causes of truancy, and stop youths’ progression from truancy into more serious and violent behaviors.
See http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/188947.pdf.
Who's Skipping School:
Characteristics of Truants in 8th
and 10th Grade
Kimberly L. Henry, PhD American School Health Association, Journal of School Health, January 2007
Findings in this research article indicate some of the most reliable predictors of truancy include:
- parental education;
- having large amounts of unsupervised time after school; school disengagement; and
- drug use.
Kimberly L. Henry, PhD American School Health Association, Journal of School Health, January 2007
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