Race and the Impact of Detention on Juvenile Justice Decision Making

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Contexts of Decision Making in the Juvenile Justice System: An Organizational Approach to Understanding Minority Overrepresentation (2010, result): “The finding of leniency for African Americans at disposition is consistent with those of at least three prior studies (Bishop & Frazier, 1988; Dannefer & Schutt, 1982; Leiber & Fox, 2005).”
Being Young and Black (2008, background): “…has begun to show that justifiable criteria, such as assessments about the family and detention status, may appear to be objective but in reality are often racially tainted and work to the disadvantage of African Americans more so than of Whites (e.g., Leiber & Fox, 2005; Pope & Feyerherm, 1993).”