Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems

Introduction: Contemporary issues of race/ethnicity, offending behavior, and justice responses 1. The role of juvenile adjudications in the disproportional incarceration of African-American and Hispanic defendants 2. Assessing the impact of deportable status on sentencing outcomes in a sample of state prisoners 3. Minority threat and criminal sentencing: examining juveniles in the adult criminal justice system 4. Court communities in local context: a multilevel analysis of felony sentencing in South Carolina 5. A jury of whose peers? The impact of selection procedures on racial composition and the prevalence of majority-white juries 6. Race, prior offending, and juvenile court outcomes 7. Weapon and drug offenses and juvenile disproportionate minority contact: an impact assessment and practical discussion 8. Does who appears before the juvenile court matter on adjudication and disposition outcomes? The interaction between client race and lawyer type 9. Racial disparities in referrals to mental health and substance abuse services from the juvenile justice system: a review of the literature 10. The effect of drug arrest on subsequent drug offending and social bonding 11. How well do the adolescent risk factors predict re-arrest frequency across race/ethnicity among serious adolescent offenders? 12. Perceptions of race, crime, and policing among Ferguson protesters 13. Public opinion on the affluenza defense, race, and sentencing decisions: results from a statewide poll