Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2010
Publication Title
Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice
Keywords
African America, disproportionate minority incarceration, juvenile offenders, risk assessment, secure detention
Abstract
Disproportionate minority contact and confinement (DMC) are significant problems within the juvenile justice system in the United States. Minority youth are more often arrested, court referred, placed in locked facilities, and transferred to adult criminal courts. In fact, African American youth are 6 times more likely than White youth to experience a secure facility placement. Standardized risk assessments have been used, in part, to reduce these biased placement outcomes. The purpose of this article is to determine if DMC impacts secure detention placement even when a standardized risk assessment is used to determine youths' risks and needs in 1 Midwest county's juvenile court population over a 17-month time frame. Multivariate binary logistic regression results indicated and confirmed that African American youth were 2 times more likely to receive secure detention center placement than non-African American youth even when a standardized risk assessment was used. Practical applications and recommendations are set forth.
Recommended Citation
Mallett, Christopher A. and Stoddard Dare, Patricia A., "Predicting Secure Detention Placement for African-American Juvenile Offenders: Addressing the Disproportionate Minority Confinement Problem" (2010). Social Work Faculty Publications. 8.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clsowo_facpub/8
Publication Status
1
DOI
10.1080/15377931003761011
Publisher's Statement
This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice on April-June 2010 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15377931003761011
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