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Race and Processing of Juvenile Offenders
The issue of race remains pervasive and controversial in American society. Hacker (1992) reminds us in his book Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal that American society is divided along racial lines. The issue of race is also manifested in the research foci of many social scientists (e.g., Pope and Feyerherm, 1990a, 1990b). For more than 30 years, social scientists (Bishop and Frazier, 1988; Bridges and Steen, 1998; Piliavin and Briar, 1964) have attempted to address the issue of discrimination in our juvenile justice system. Despite legal safeguards mandated by the Supreme Court decision of In re Gault (1967), juveniles remain at greater risk of having their rights compromised (Feld, 1989) and minority youth continue to be overrepresented in the juvenile justice system.
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- Delinquency Theories and Theorists
- Albert Cohen
- Biological Theories
- Clifford Shaw
- Cycle of Violence
- Edwin Sutherland
- Fredrick Thrasher
- Henry McKay
- James Short
- Joan McCord
- Lamar T. Empey
- Lloyd Ohlin
- Marvin Wolfgang
- Psychological Theories
- Richard Cloward
- Ruth Shonle Cavan
- Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
- Sociological Theories
- Solomon Kobrin
- Stanley G. Hall
- Thorsten Sellin
- Travis Hirschi
- Walter Miller
- Walter Reckless
- Historical References: People and Projects
- Delinquent Behavior
- Treatment and Interventions for Delinquency
- Aftercare
- Alternative Schools
- Assessment
- Boot Camps
- Boys and girls Clubs
- community action boards
- Culturally Specific Programming
- curfews
- DARE
- Detention Facilities
- family therapy
- Group Homes
- group therapy
- mediation
- out of home placement
- police responses to delinquency
- Prevention strategies
- probation
- Scared Straight
- Teen courts
- victim offender
- Wilderness Programs
- Juvenile Law and Legislative Initiatives
- California Street Terrorism Enforcement & Prevention
- California Youth Authority
- Death Penalty
- Diversion
- Foster Care
- Guardian Ad Litem
- Juvenile Courts
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
- Juvenile Law
- National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges
- National Council on Crime & Delinquency
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- parens patriae
- Parental liability laws
- Waivers to Adult Court
- Juvenile Issues and Public Policy
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