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Minorities in Juvenile Justice (Paperback)
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The experiences of minority youths in the juvenile justice system
are strikingly different from those of their white counterparts. In
response to the overrepresentation of minority youths in
confinement, Congress amended the Juvenile Justice &
Delinquency Prevention Act to require states to investigate the
imbalance and develop action plans to fix problem situations. In
this carefully edited volume, the contributors note the extent and
sources of disparate treatment of youths within juvenile justice
and identify the need to respond to this bias. Findings from
research and provocative analysis of topics such as racial
difference in encounters with police, in urban juvenile court, in
confinement and punishment, and among groups within juvenile
justice awaken the reader to the variety of racial bias in the
system. The authors also offer creative and practical policy
recommendations and strategies for overcoming racial inequity in
the juvenile justice process. Practitioners and researchers in
juvenile justice, criminology, corrections, policing, sociology,
and ethnic studies will find the cross-section of information in
the volume enlightening. The material presented also ideally fits
supplementary text needs for coursework dealing with race and
crime. "This volume delivers a full and complete view of one of the
most critical issues in juvenile justice. Rousing and informative,
the book comes highly recommended." --Barry Krisberg, Ph.D.,
President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, San Francisco
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