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The contexts of juvenile justice decision making : when race matters /

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 homogeno...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leiber, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
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  • 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.