Our children, their children : confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice

Our children, their children : confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice / edited by Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.

In Our Children, Their Children, a prominent team of researchers argues that a second-rate and increasingly punitive juvenile justice system is allowed to persist because most people believe it is designed for children in other ethnic and socioeconomic groups. While public opinion, laws, and social...

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Other Authors: Hawkins, Darnell Felix, 1946-, Kempf Leonard, Kimberly
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.
Series:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development.
Subjects:
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration > United States.
Crime and race > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime and race
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration
Juvenile justice, Administration of
United States
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • The role of race and ethnicity in juvenile justice processing / Donna M. Bishop
  • Racial and ethnic differences in juvenile offending / Janet L. Lauritsen
  • Degrees of discretion : the first juvenile court and the problem of difference in the early twentieth century / David S. Tanenhaus
  • Race and the jurisprudence of juvenile justice : a tale in two parts, 1950-2000 / Barry C. Feld
  • Is suburban sprawl a juvenile justice issue / Paul A. Jargowsky, Scott A. Desmond, and Robert D. Crutchfield
  • Race and crime : the contribution of individual, familial, and neighborhood-level risk factors to life-course-persistent offending / Alex R. Piquero, Terri E. Moffitt, and Brian Lawton
  • Explaining assessments of future risk : race and attributions of juvenile offenders in presentencing reports / Sara Steen [and others]
  • Justice by geography : racial disparity and juvenile courts / Timothy M. Bray, Lisa L. Sample, and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
  • Race, ethnicity, and juvenile justice : is there bias in postarrest decision making / Paul E. Tracy
  • Disproportionate minority confinement/contact (DMC) : the federal initiative / Carl E. Pope and Michael J. Leiber
  • Mental health issues among minority offenders in the juvenile justice system / Elizabeth Cauffman and Thomas Grisso
  • Minimizing harm from minority disproportion in American juvenile justice / Franklin E. Zimring.

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