Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Confinement in Massachusetts

Title: Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Confinement in Massachusetts
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Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Confinement in Massachusetts

Introduction Concerns about the overrepresentation of minority youth in secure confinement have long been noted, and much research has been devoted to this issue. It is only within the past decade or so, however, that national attention has been directed to the impact of race on juvenile justice decision-making in regards to confinement. In the 1998 amendments to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (Pub. L. No. 93-415, 42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.), Congress required …showed first 75 words of 5454 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 5454 total…longitudinal experimental study of delinquency and prevention. Pp. 196-206 in Preventing Antisocial Behavior: Interventions from Birth through Adolescence, J. McCord and R.E. Tremblay, eds. New York: Guilford Press. Miller, J. 1991 Last One Over the Wall. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2002 State Profile for Massachusetts (2002 National Report from the Office of JJDP). Pinderhughes, H. 2000 Race in the Hood: Conflict and Violence Among Urban Youth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

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