Predicting Secure Detention Placement for African-American Juvenile Offenders: Addressing the Disproportionate Minority Confinement Problem

Abstract

Disproportionate minority contact and confinement (DMC)

Significant Race Differences in Factors Related to the Detention Recidivism of Youthful Offenders

“…These disorder and disability rates are many times greater than the rates found in the general youth population (Mallett, 2009). Upward of half of these youthful offenders experience more than one of these dis abilities concurrently (Garland et al, 2001;Scott, Snowden, & Libby, 2002), complicating the investigations into their effects on disproportionate minority confinement (Mallett & Stoddard-Dare, 2010). Furthermore, because of the multitude of individual, family, and community risk factors experienced by youthful offenders, predicting delinquency outcomes, particularly recidivism, as well as court disposition outcomes, is difficult (Ford, Chapman, Hawke, & Albert, 2007;Gavazzi, Yarcheck, & Lim, 2005;Green, Gesten, Greenwald, & Salcedo, 2008;Gutman, Sameroff, & Cole, 2003).…”

Do Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Mandate Reforms Change Decision-Making? Decomposing Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System

“…A growing body of DMC scholarship has concentrated on determining whether juvenile court officials process individual youths differently after DMC reform (Cabaniss et al, 2007; Leiber et al, 2011; Maggard, 2015; Mallett & Stoddard-Dare, 2010; Vergara, Kathuria, Woodmass, Janke, & Wells, 2016). Such individual-level analyses compare the influence of race and other case conditions on decision-making before and after the development of reforms.…”

Race and Stereotypes Matter When You Ask About Conduct Problems: Implications for Violence Risk Assessment in Juvenile Justice Settings

“…African Americans are twice as likely as European Americans to be rated as a high risk for future violence (Angwin, Larson, Mattu, & Kirchner, 2016) and are disproportionately sanctioned with high-intensity interventions in the juvenile courts (C. A. Mallett & Stoddard-Dare, 2010). For these reasons, considering sources of error in violence risk assessments among African Americans is prudent, and scrutinizing methods of soliciting self-reported criminal behavior provides one such opportunity.…”

“…These data are of particular import to African Americans, as this group is most likely to receive overly restrictive sanctions. African Americans are twice as likely as European Americans to be rated as a high risk for future violence (Angwin, Larson, Mattu, & Kirchner, 2016) and are disproportionately sanctioned with high-intensity interventions in the juvenile courts (C. A. Mallett & Stoddard-Dare, 2010).…”