The contexts of juvenile justice decision making : when race matters / Michael J. Leiber.
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 homogeno...
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State University of New York Press,
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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.