The color of juvenile justice: Racial disparities in dispositional decisions

Fader, Jamie J.; Kurlychek, Megan C.; Morgan, Kirstin A.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.11.006

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“…Both types of sanctions can be viewed as seeking to balance punishment and rehabilitation. However, the treatment programs arguably represent the more traditional child-saving approach associated with juvenile justice (Fader et al 2014). These studies illustrate how minority youth may be more likely both to receive tougher punishment and to receive less rehabilitative intervention.…”

Section: Theoretical Accounts Of Sentencing Disparitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The counter to this logic is that among committed youth, treatment and services will be provided across all placement types and that risk classification concerns alone will dictate placement type (see, however, Fader et al 2014). To the extent that this second logic holds, we can anticipate that there will be little to no difference in the security level of custodial placements among minority and White youth.…”

Section: Disparities In Punishment and Rehabilitation: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We found no evidence that Blacks or Latinos were receiving low-custody commitments for less severe offenses as compared to Whites. A second possibility is that within the custody levels themselves, heterogeneity may exist that obscures racialized patterns of sanctioning (see, e.g., Fader et al 2014). For example, greater levels of rehabilitative services and treatment may be more likely in the higher-security-level facilities.…”

Section: Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, studies ideally should examine factors related to within-disposition heterogeneity (Fader et al 2014). Different types of diversion interventions exist, for example, and probation placements can involve placement in more intensive supervision where rehabilitative programming may be more likely or in less intensive supervision where such programming may be less likely.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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: Theoretical Accounts Of Sentencing Disparitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Disparities In Punishment and Rehabilitation: Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Commitmentmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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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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“…Prior research tends to show that minority youth are often the recipients of disadvantaged court outcomes and fewer treatment services compared to similarly situated Whites (Bishop and Leiber 2011;Fader, Kurlychek, and Morgan 2014;Puzzanchera and Hockenberry 2013). The articles included in this subsection focus on the conditioning effects of prior offending, weapon and drug offenses, presence and type of legal counsel, and mental health services on the treatment of youth from different racial and ethnic backgrounds within the juvenile court.…”

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