Our children, their children : confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice / edited by Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard. - Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, c2005. - x, 459 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research network on adolescent development and juvenile justice . - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research network on adolescent development and juvenile justice. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ... [et al.] -- 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.

0226319881 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226319889 (cloth : alk. paper)

2004030246

GBA575206 bnb

013287501 Uk


Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration--United States.
Crime and race--United States.

HV 9104 .O97 2005