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

Abstract

Justice Quarterly ISSN: 0741-8825 (Print) 1745-9109 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjqy20

Identifying variation in police officer behavior between juveniles and adults

“…Also, the past several decades have witnessed an increase in the formal processing of juveniles by the system. Whether this is due to changes in the nature of juvenile offending or the system being more willing to intervene and hold the juvenile accountable has been debated (Feld, 2003). In either case, police as gatekeepers of the criminal justice system, and protectors of community safety, are required to interact with juveniles and make decisions about how best to handle youth.…”

Factors behind support for harsher punishments for common and uncommon offenders

“…Importantly, it was the case for both first time and repeat offenders even when their gender was left unspecified, complementing the existing literature on the role of RWA (Altemeyer, 1996;Applegate et al 2000;Colémant, Van Hiel & Cornelis, 2011;Dunn, 2013;Feld, 2003;Funke, 2005;McKee & Feather, 2008;Tam, Leung and Chiu, 2008;Palasinski & Shortland, 2016).…”

“…Given the consistency of right-wing authoritarianism in predicting support for harsher punishment for both first time and repeat offenders in Study 1, which ties up with and complements the existing literature (Colémant et al, 2011;Dunn, 2013;Feld, 2003;McKee and Feather, 2008;Palasinski and Shortland, 2016), Study 2 takes a slightly different focus in a cross-cultural context to explore if the role of RWA would be similar. More specifically, drawing on research showing that RWA and social dominance are positively correlated (Thomsen et al, 2008) and predictive of prejudice against subjectively threatening outgroups (Cohrs and Asbrock, 2008), it hypotheses that National Identity (i.e., how British or Singaporean a person feels) will play a similar role in predicting support for harsher punishments.…”

Extinguishing All Hope: Life-Without-Parole for Juveniles

“…All of the participants here are men of color, and nationally judges impose JLWOP on Blacks at a rate 10 times higher than on Whites (Human Rights Watch, 2005). Racial disparity is endemic to juvenile justice and becomes more concentrated as one progresses through the system (Feld, 2003). Scott and Steinberg (2003, p. 809) state that ''[a] troubling explanation for the puzzling hostility toward young law violators is that attitudes are driven by racial and ethnic bias.''…”