Juvenile arrest in America : race, social class, and gang membership /

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Tapia studies how race, social class, and gang membership interact to shape arrest patterns for American youth. With differences in delinquency level controlled for the various subgroups of youth in the study, a critical test of labeling theory is executed. Modeling how social class and gang members...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tapia, Mike, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.
Colección:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Juvenile delinquency > United States.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Utah.
Gangs > United States.
Délinquance juvénile > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale > Utah.
Gangs > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Gangs
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile justice, Administration of
Bande
Ethnizität
Jugendkriminalität
Jugendstrafanstalt
Soziale Klasse
United States
Utah
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction and theoretical background
  • Framework
  • Labeling and conflict theories
  • Conflict-based components of labeling
  • Interaction effects
  • 2. Concepts and issues in juvenile arrest research
  • Three main approaches to studying juvenile arrest
  • Correlates of juvenile arrest
  • Legal variables
  • 3. Youth gangs and arrest
  • Delinquent subculture
  • Gangs and delinquency
  • Gangs and arrest
  • 4. Modeling the effects of legal and social variables on juvenile arrest
  • Hypotheses
  • Sample
  • Measures
  • 5. Testing the race-ethnic labeling hypotheses
  • Labeling and arrest
  • Race and ethnic effects in the full sample
  • Multivariate modeling of the race effect
  • General arrest predictors in the model
  • 6. SES and the race-arrest relationship
  • Modeling
  • Results
  • 7. Gang membership and arrest : specifying race and SES effects
  • Descriptives
  • Gang models
  • 8. Conclusion : labeling and the confluence of extralegal characteristics on juvenile arrest
  • Discussion of findings
  • Study limitations
  • Implications for policy and theory
  • Appendix A. General delinquency measures, 12-month incidence
  • Appendix B. Delinquency by gang member status.

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