Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems

Contemporary Issues of Offending Behavior and Judicial Responses
Herausgeber: Peck, Jennifer

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection of research aims to highlight contemporary issues surrounding the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities throughout the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Crime and Justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138286474
• ISBN-10: 1138286478
• Artikelnr.: 57044230

Autorenporträt

Jennifer H. Peck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida, USA. Her research interests include racial/ethnic disparities in juvenile court processing and the treatment of disadvantaged groups in the juvenile justice system.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contemporary issues of race/ethnicity, offending behavior,
and justice responses 1. The role of juvenile adjudications in the
disproportional incarceration of African-American and Hispanic defendants
2. Assessing the impact of deportable status on sentencing outcomes in a
sample of state prisoners 3. Minority threat and criminal sentencing:
examining juveniles in the adult criminal justice system 4. Court
communities in local context: a multilevel analysis of felony sentencing in
South Carolina 5. A jury of whose peers? The impact of selection procedures
on racial composition and the prevalence of majority-white juries 6. Race,
prior offending, and juvenile court outcomes 7. Weapon and drug offenses
and juvenile disproportionate minority contact: an impact assessment and
practical discussion 8. Does who appears before the juvenile court matter
on adjudication and disposition outcomes? The interaction between client
race and lawyer type 9. Racial disparities in referrals to mental health
and substance abuse services from the juvenile justice system: a review of
the literature 10. The effect of drug arrest on subsequent drug offending
and social bonding 11. How well do the adolescent risk factors predict
re-arrest frequency across race/ethnicity among serious adolescent
offenders? 12. Perceptions of race, crime, and policing among Ferguson
protesters 13. Public opinion on the affluenza defense, race, and
sentencing decisions: results from a statewide poll