The contexts of juvenile justice decision making : when race matters /

The contexts of juvenile justice decision making : when race matters /

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Author / Creator:Leiber, Michael J.
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages)
Language:English
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subject:
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Iowa.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- Iowa.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Iowa.
Juvenile delinquents -- Iowa.
Minority youth -- Iowa.
Prison sentences -- Iowa.
Juvenile corrections -- Iowa.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration.
Juvenile corrections.
Juvenile delinquents.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Minority youth.
Prison sentences.
Iowa.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130259
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ISBN:1417536101
9781417536108
0791457680
9780791457689
0791457672
9780791457672
9780791486634
079148663X
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Annotation Explores the contexts of judges' decision making in juvenile courts that incarcerate disproportionately more minorities than whites. An in-depth examination of the contextual nature of decision making and the causes of disproportionate minority confinement in four relatively homogenous juvenile courts in lowa, this book explores the subjective social psychological processes of juvenile court officers and the factors that influence those processes. Iowa, although a state with a predominantly white population, has one of the highest minority incarceration rates for juveniles. Michael J. Leiber focuses on the relationships between adherence to correctional orientations (such as retribution and rehabilitation) and decision-makers' views concerning race, crime, family, and respect for authority with judgments and differential outcomes for youth. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies are used to determine the extent to which correctional ideologies and decision-makers' stereotyping of minorities are fueled by a wide range of contingencies, the impact of case processing and outcomes of whites, African Americans, and Native Americans, and how it varies by Jurisdiction.
Other form:Print version: Leiber, Michael J. Contexts of juvenile justice decision making. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003 0791457680 0791457672
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC)
  • Ch. 2 Understanding DMC
  • Ch. 3 Correctional Orientations, Race, Crime, Family, and Respect for Authority
  • Ch. 4 Methods
  • Ch. 5 Movement through the Juvenile Justice System
  • Ch. 6 Influence of Legal and Extralegal Factors on Decision Making
  • Ch. 7 Accountability and Intervention
  • Ch. 8 Rehabilitation, Protection of Society, and Adherence to Middle-Class Values
  • Ch. 9 Formal Rationalized Justice and Nonintervention
  • Ch. 10 Dysfunctional Family, Subcultural Values, Lack of Resources, and Rehabilitation
  • Ch. 11 Summary and Conclusions.

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