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Title Our children, their children [electronic resource] : confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice / edited by Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.

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Description x, 459 p. : ill.
Series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research network on adolescent development and juvenile justice
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research network on adolescent development and juvenile justice.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- United States.
Crime and race -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hawkins, Darnell Felix, 1946-
Kempf Leonard, Kimberly.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226319881 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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