Race and Ethnicity within the Juvenile Justice System presents a complete empirical exam of the position of race and ethnicity within the juvenile courtroom. utilizing empirical examine as a starting place, the authors study how race and ethnicity impact a number of determination issues for formative years coming into the juvenile procedure, together with arrest, referral, petition, pre-adjudication free up, adjudication, and disposition. The authors floor the decision-making in a separate bankruptcy that solely specializes in theories that may be used to provide an explanation for the position of race and ethnicity in juvenile justice processing.

Additionally, there's an exam of the way group elements differentially influence decision-making according to the race/ethnicity of teenybopper, the position of race/ethnicity within the perform of shifting formative years to grownup court docket, and the way race impacts juveniles’ perceptions of police and the juvenile process. additionally, the authors empirically research the function of race/ethnicity at the processing of prestige offenders and the way it affects woman involvement in delinquency.

In framing all of those salient matters within the right context, the authors offer a ancient research of the function of race in improvement of the juvenile court docket approach and the way diversified races have been taken care of either prior to and after the juvenile court’s implementation. The underlying subject matter of the textual content is that each one races/ethnicities of teenybopper weren't at first served by means of or intended to learn from the juvenile courtroom. accordingly, the ongoing racial and ethnic disparities at present saw within the approach may be traced to the pre-juvenile court docket era.

“In Race and Ethnicity within the Juvenile Justice System, Tina Freiburger and Kareem Jordan offer an informative, entire, and remarkable assessment of a subject matter of serious value. it is a needs to learn for these attracted to race, ethnicity, gender and social regulate within the juvenile justice system.” 

— Michael J. Leiber, collage of South Florida