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The contexts of juvenile justice decision making : when race matters / Michael J. Leiber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1417536101
  • 9781417536108
  • 0791457680
  • 9780791457689
  • 0791457672
  • 9780791457672
  • 9780791486634
  • 079148663X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contexts of juvenile justice decision making.DDC classification:
  • 364.36/089/009777 22
LOC classification:
  • HV9105.I8 L45 2003eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-220) and index.

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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.

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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