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1001095
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b755465
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Our children, their children : : confronting racial and ethnic differences in American juvenile justice /\ edited by Darnell F. Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2005.
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development
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1 online resource (x, 459 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0226319881
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: 0226319911
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: 9780226319889
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: 9780226319919
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0226319881
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9780226319889
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The role of race and ethnicity in juvenile justice processing / Donna M. Bishop -- Racial and ethnic differences in juvenile offending / Janet L. Lauritsen -- Degrees of discretion : the first juvenile court and the problem of difference in the early twentieth century / David S. Tanenhaus -- Race and the jurisprudence of juvenile justice : a tale in two parts, 1950-2000 / Barry C. Feld -- Is suburban sprawl a juvenile justice issue / Paul A. Jargowsky, Scott A. Desmond, and Robert D. Crutchfield -- Race and crime : the contribution of individual, familial, and neighborhood-level risk factors to life-course-persistent offending / Alex R. Piquero, Terri E. Moffitt, and Brian Lawton -- Explaining assessments of future risk : race and attributions of juvenile offenders in presentencing reports / Sara Steen [and others] -- Justice by geography : racial disparity and juvenile courts / Timothy M. Bray, Lisa L. Sample, and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard -- Race, ethnicity, and juvenile justice : is there bias in postarrest decision making / Paul E. Tracy -- Disproportionate minority confinement/contact (DMC) : the federal initiative / Carl E. Pope and Michael J. Leiber -- Mental health issues among minority offenders in the juvenile justice system / Elizabeth Cauffman and Thomas Grisso -- Minimizing harm from minority disproportion in American juvenile justice / Franklin E. Zimring.
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| Abstract
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In Our Children, Their Children, a prominent team of researchers argues that a second-rate and increasingly punitive juvenile justice system is allowed to persist because most people believe it is designed for children in other ethnic and socioeconomic groups. While public opinion, laws, and social policies that convey distinctions between "our children" and "their children" may seem to conflict with the American ideal of blind justice, they are hardly at odds with patterns of group differentiation and inequality that have characterized much of American history. Our Childre.
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Crime and race-- United States.
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Discrimination in juvenile justice administration-- United States.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of-- United States.
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Criminalité et race-- États-Unis.
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Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pour mineurs-- États-Unis.
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Justice pour mineurs-- Administration-- États-Unis.
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Crime and race.
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Discrimination in juvenile justice administration.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Criminology.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.36/089/00973
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HV9104.O97 2005eb
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| Added Entry
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Hawkins, Darnell Felix,1946-
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Kempf Leonard, Kimberly.
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