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Contextual Characteristics in Juvenile Sentencing - Examining the Impact of Concentrated Disadvantage on Youth Court Outcomes (Paperback)
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Contextual Characteristics in Juvenile Sentencing - Examining the Impact of Concentrated Disadvantage on Youth Court Outcomes (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
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While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile
justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual
and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant
attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors. This book
assesses how a specific contextual factor-concentrated
disadvantage-impacts juvenile court outcomes and considers the
relevant implications for the current state of juvenile justice
processing. Using case-level data from a Southern state with a
large, diverse population and contextual-level data from the 2010
US Census and American Community Survey, Maroun assesses whether
youth living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantage
experience harsher outcomes than their counterparts from other
types of neighborhoods. Additionally, she examines whether
concentrated disadvantage interacts with individual race/ethnicity
to influence juvenile court outcomes. Results suggested a direct
impact of concentrated disadvantage on diversion, adjudication, and
probation type. Further, race significantly interacted with
concentrated disadvantage in impacting adjudication and probation
outcomes, while ethnicity significantly interacted with
concentrated disadvantage in impacting disposition and commitment
type. This research expands the knowledge of macrolevel influences
on juvenile court outcomes, providing support for the notion that
community context impacts juvenile justice processing. Results also
highlight the fact that judges use discretion as well as other
legal and extralegal factors in exerting social control, and do so
differently at each stage of processing. This monograph is
essential reading for those engaged in youth and juvenile justice
efforts and scholars interested in issues surrounding race, class,
social policy, and justice.
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