Our Children, Their Children : Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice.
Title:
Our Children, Their Children : Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice.
Author:
Hawkins, Darnell F.
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9780226319919
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (471 pages)
Series:
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development, Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword / Barry A. Krisberg -- 1. Introduction / Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard -- Part 1: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Crime and Punishment: Past and Present -- 2. The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Juvenile Justice Processing / Donna M. Bishop -- 3. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Offending / Janet L. Lauritsen -- 4. Degrees of Discretion: The First Juvenile Court and the Problem of Difference in the Early Twentieth Century / David S. Tanenhaus -- 5. Race and the Jurisprudence of Juvenile Justice: A Tale in Two Parts, 1950-2000 / Barry C. Feld -- Part 2: Understanding Race Differences in Offending and the Administration of Justice -- 6. Suburban Sprawl, Race, and Juvenile Justice / Paul A. Jargowsky, Scott A. Desmond, and Robert D. Crutchfield -- 7. Race and Crime: The Contribution of Individual, Familial, and Neighborhood-Level Risk Factors to Life-Course-Persistent Offending / Alex R. Piquero, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Brian Lawton -- 8. Explaining Assessments of Future Risk: Race and Attributions of Juvenile Offenders in Presentencing Reports / Sara Steen, Christine E. W. Bond, George S. Bridges, and Charis E. Kubrin -- 9. " Justice by Geography": Racial Disparity and Juvenile Courts / Timothy M. Bray, Lisa L. Sample, and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard -- 10. Race, Ethnicity, and Juvenile Justice: Is There Bias in Postarrest Decision Making? / Paul E. Tracy -- Part 3: Toward Remedial Social Policy -- 11. Disproportionate Minority Confinement/Contact ( DMC): The Federal Initiative / Carl E. Pope and Michael J. Leiber -- 12. Mental Health Issues among Minority Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System / Elizabeth Cauffman and Thomas Grisso -- 13. Minimizing Harm from Minority Disproportion in American Juvenile Justice / Franklin E. Zimring.
Conclusion: Our Children, Their Children / Kimberly Kempf-Leonard and Darnell F. Hawkins -- Contributors -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
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 policies that convey distinctions between "our children" and "their children" may seem to conflict with the American ideal of blind justice, they are hardly at odds with patterns of group differentiation and inequality that have characterized much of American history. Our Children, Their Children provides a state-of-the-science examination of racial and ethnic disparities in the American juvenile justice system. Here, contributors document the precise magnitude of these disparities, seek to determine their causes, and propose potential solutions. In addition to race and ethnicity, contributors also look at the effects on juvenile justice of suburban sprawl, the impact of family and neighborhood, bias in postarrest decisions, and mental health issues. Assessing the implications of these differences for public policy initiatives and legal reforms, this volume is the first critical summary of what is known and unknown in this important area of social research.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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