Reducing disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system: Promising practices

Cabaniss, Emily R.; Frabutt, James M.; Kendrick, Mary H.; Arbuckle, Margaret B.

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2006.09.004

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“…It stems as well from policymaker concerns about disproportional sanctioning of minorities (Cabaniss et al 2007;Feld 1993Feld , 1999Scott and Steinberg 2008). Congress has used funding requirements, for example, as a means by which to prompt states to take steps to reduce disproportionate minority confinement (Coleman 2011).…”

Section: More Punitive Sanctions For Minority Youthmentioning

confidence: 96%

Race, Ethnic, and Gender Divides in Juvenile Court Sanctioning and Rehabilitative Intervention

Cochran

Mears

2014

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: Drawing on focal concerns theory, as well as scholarship on the juvenile court's mandate to consider youth culpability and amenability to treatment, we develop hypotheses that seek to examine whether the court will (1) punish Whites less severely and (2) be more likely to intervene with Whites through rehabilitative intervention and, simultaneously, be more punitive and less rehabilitative with minorities, and, in particular, Black males. Method: Florida juvenile court referral data and multinomial logistic regression analyses are used to examine multicategory disposition and ''subdisposition'' measures. Results: Findings suggest that minority youth, especially Black males, are not only more likely to receive punitive sanctions, they also are less likely than White youth to receive rehabilitative interventions and instead experience significantly higher rates of dismissals. The analyses indicate that similar racial and ethnic disparities emerge when ''subdispositions''-specifically, placement options within diversion and probation-are examined. Conclusions: The results underscore the salience of race, ethnicity, and gender in juvenile court decisions about punitive sanctioning and rehabilitative intervention, as well as the importance of employing multicategory disposition measures that better reflect the range of sanctioning and intervention options available to the court.

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Section: More Punitive Sanctions For Minority Youthmentioning

confidence: 96%

Race, Ethnic, and Gender Divides in Juvenile Court Sanctioning and Rehabilitative Intervention

Cochran

Mears

2014

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…This traditional pattern of response to harm tends to further discriminate against already marginalized populations that are pre-identified as undesirable or 'bad' which, in the American context, often means people of color and/or low socio-economic status. The impact of current justice and correctional strategies on minorities and other disempowered populations is now well documented as such populations are forced disproportionately deeper into an inequitable justice system (Alexander, 2010;Cabaniss, Frabutt, Kendrick, & Arbuckle, 2007;Cole, 1999;Huizinga, Thornberry, Knight, & Lovegrove, 2007;Kakar, 2006;Rodriguez, 2007;Walker, Spohn, & DeLone, 2007).…”

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confidence: 97%

Teaching restorative justice: developing a restorative andragogy for face-to-face, online and hybrid course modalities

Gilbert

Schiff

Cunliffe

2013

Contemporary Justice Review

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Teaching restorative justice in an academic setting is different from teaching almost any other academic course. Courses taught in the context of academic criminal justice programs tend to reinforce the structural inequalities in society, replicated and reinforced by instructor driven classroom experiences. In contrast, effective teaching of restorative justice should emulate the values of principles of restorative justice in the organization and management of the course. Teachers of restorative justice must 'walk the talk' and apply restorative principles and values to the design and delivery of the course itself. A conceptual framework for 'restorative andragogy' is developed that blends principles and values of adult learning with those of restorative justice. Four principles of this approach are identified and applied across three instructional modalities -faceto-face, online only, and hybrid courses. This approach provides a theoretically grounded model for effective teaching of restorative justice courses.

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“…Finally, Cabaniss et al (2007) suggest that ''communities can transcend the emotionally charged atmosphere that often envelops discussions of social injustice by reviewing data and decision point maps that clearly outline the extent of the problem'' (p. 399). This research adds scientific data to those discussions.…”

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“…There have been three amendments to the Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to address DMC, and yet minorities are still overrepresented in US juvenile justice systems. Indeed, disproportionate minority contact has proven to be a very complex issue (Cabaniss et al 2007).…”

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Legal and Extralegal Factors Affecting Minority Overrepresentation in Virginia’s Juvenile Justice System: A Mixed-Method Study

McCarter

2009

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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This study examined legal and extralegal factors, specifically race, and their effects on processing and sanctions for 2,233 African American and Caucasian males in Virginia's juvenile justice system. Qualitative findings from in-depth interviews with juvenile judges, Commonwealth's attorneys, defense attorneys, police officers, juveniles and their families triangulate the quantitative findings. Crime severity was the only factor which affected the likelihood of diversion; whereas race, grade repeated, prior record, and crime severity increased the likelihood of incarceration through two logistic regression models. Stakeholders added discussion regarding family structure and education. As social work practice intersects with juvenile justice through multiple avenues, the implications of these findings are discussed.

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Reducing disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile justice system: Promising practices

Cited by 44 publications

References 3 publications

Race, Ethnic, and Gender Divides in Juvenile Court Sanctioning and Rehabilitative Intervention

Race, Ethnic, and Gender Divides in Juvenile Court Sanctioning and Rehabilitative Intervention

Teaching restorative justice: developing a restorative andragogy for face-to-face, online and hybrid course modalities

Legal and Extralegal Factors Affecting Minority Overrepresentation in Virginia’s Juvenile Justice System: A Mixed-Method Study

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