There is a dearth of empirical research investigating public awareness or perceptions of the impact of collateral consequences of juvenile justice system involvement on youths’ lives. The current study recruited 555 Pennsylvania residents through Amazon Mechanical Turk to participate in a brief, educational intervention on collateral consequences of system involvement. Participants read a short vignette about a hypothetical youth who was adjudicated delinquent in Pennsylvania, answered 20 knowledge‐based questions, and provided pre‐ and postintervention ratings of the impact the delinquency finding would have on the youth's life in the short term and in the long term. Results of linear mixed model analysis revealed significant fixed effects of both phase (pre‐post educational intervention), b = .62, p < .001, 95% CI [.47, .78] and timing (before the youth turns age 18 and after the youth turns age 18), b = –.98, p < .001, 95% CI [–1.18, –.78], on impact ratings (i.e., how big an impact a juvenile adjudication will have on the youth's life). Participants provided incorrect responses to approximately half of collateral consequences, indicating a gap in knowledge. Findings from the current study can inform targeted intervention efforts to increase public awareness of the consequences of juvenile justice system involvement.

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司法系统中青少年的附带后果：教育干预后知觉的变化

缺乏实证研究来调查公众对青少年司法系统参与的附带后果对青年生活的影响的认识或看法。当前的研究通过Amazon Mechanical Turk招募了555名宾夕法尼亚州居民，以参加有关系统参与附带后果的简短教育干预。参与者阅读了一个简短的小插图，介绍了一个假设的年轻人，他在宾夕法尼亚州被判定为犯罪青少年，回答了20个基于知识的问题，并提供了干预前和干预后的评估结果，表明犯罪在短期和长期内会对青少年的生活产生影响术语。线性混合模型分析的结果表明，两个阶段都有显着的固定效应（事前教育干预），b = .62，p <.001，95％CI [.47，.78]和时间（年轻人在18岁之前和18岁之后），b = –.98，p < .001，95 ％CI [–1.18 ，–.78]，关于影响力等级（即，青少年裁决对青少年的生活有多大影响）。参与者对大约一半的附带后果没有做出正确的回答，这表明知识方面存在差距。当前研究的结果可以为有针对性的干预工作提供信息，以提高公众对少年司法系统介入后果的认识。