Minorities and the Juvenile Justice System: Research Summary

Pope, Carl E.; Feyerherm, William

doi:10.1037/e381472004-001

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“…Scholars have argued that the effects of racial disproportionality are cumulative, as racial disproportionality at earlier stages of justice system involvement compounds to result in more extensive disproportionality at later stages (Pope and Feyerherm 1993;Sampson and Lauritsen 1997). Thus, it is important to investigate all decision-making points.…”

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Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses

Shook

Goodkind

2009

Race Soc Probl

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Youth of color, particularly black youth, are overrepresented at every stage of processing in the juvenile justice system. This paper presents an analysis of racial differentials at an early stage-pretrial detention among youth charged with violent and serious offenses. It contributes to work in this area by exploring police decision making, which has been understudied in comparison with decision making by court actors. Contrary to prior studies suggesting that race differences in police treatment are found primarily in the handling of youth suspected of minor offenses, we find that black youth are three times as likely as white youth to be detained, controlling for other demographic and legal factors, including offense type and severity. This paper also contributes to efforts to understand how racial disproportionality occurs, by including an analysis of how geography affects detention decisions differentially by race. Using data from an urban county in Michigan, we find that geography and race interact, such that white youth from the suburbs are much less likely to be detained than white youth from the city and black youth from the city or suburbs.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses

Shook

Goodkind

2009

Race Soc Probl

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“…To ensure further that we included enough cases to support racial comparisons, we oversampled members of minorities in the juvenile justice system in these counties. This point is particularly important because research often includes only small numbers of minority youths (Elliott 1994) despite extensive interest in minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system (Leiber and Jamieson 1995;Pope and Feyerherm 1992). such oversampling makes it possible to conduct comparative analyses without weighting the data artificially.…”

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Explaining juveniles' attitudes toward the police

1998

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Past studies of juveniles' attitudes toward the police suggest a single-cause model that implicates personal interactions with the police. We propose that attitudes toward authority and agents of social control develop in a larger, soc~iocuttural context. Specifically we hypothesize that juveniles' attitudes develop as a function of socialization in their communities' social environment, of their deviant subcultural '~preferences," and of the prior effect of these sociocultural factors on juveniles' contacts with the police. We conducted analyses addressing these hypotheses with a population of males sampled within stratified populations of known delinquents. We found that social background variables, particularly minority status, and subcultural preferences, particularly commitment to delinquent norms, affected juveniles' attitudes toward the police both directly and indirectly (through police-juvenile interactions). We consider directions for improving police relations with juveniles in the context of apparent sociocultural and experiential contingencies to attitude development.Citizens' attitudes toward the police have been surveyed extensively in the last few decades (e.g., Brandl et al. 1994;Erez 1984;

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“…After researchers have controlled for legal variables, which account for differences in rates of offending by race, the individualized justice of juvenile courts has consistently produced racial disparities in processing and sentencing minority offenders (Kempf-Leonard, Pope, & Feyerherm, 1995;Miller, 1996;Pope & Feyerherm, 1992). Parens patriae ideology legitimates individualization and exposes "disadvantaged" youths to more extensive controls.…”

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The politics of race and juvenile justice: The “due process revolution” and the conservative reaction

Feld

2003

Justice Quarterly

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Minorities and the Juvenile Justice System: Research Summary

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Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses

Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses

Explaining juveniles' attitudes toward the police

The politics of race and juvenile justice: The “due process revolution” and the conservative reaction

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