University of California Los Angeles, USA.
Louisiana State University, USA.
J Res Adolesc. 2021 Jun;31(2):317-334. doi: 10.1111/jora.12599. Epub 2020 Dec 5.
Minority youth are disproportionately represented in the juvenile justice system. Examining how racial disparities relate to biased entry into and continued involvement with the system, while accounting for past and current offending, can provide context about the mechanisms behind overrepresentation. 1,216 adolescents were examined after first arrest to explore associations between race and history of self-reported offending, likelihood of formal processing, and likelihood of rearrest. Black youth committed fewer offenses prior to arrest than White youth, Black and Latino youth were more likely to be formally processed, and Black youth were most likely to be rearrested (even controlling for postbaseline offending), highlighting that minority youth are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system despite similar or lower levels of criminal behavior.
少数民族青年在少年司法系统中所占比例不成比例。研究种族差异与系统进入和持续参与的偏见之间的关系，同时考虑过去和现在的犯罪行为，可以提供有关代表性过高背后机制的背景信息。在首次被捕后，对 1216 名青少年进行了检查，以探讨种族与自我报告的犯罪历史、正式处理的可能性以及被捕的可能性之间的关系。被捕前，黑人青年的犯罪行为少于白人青年，黑人青年和拉丁裔青年更有可能被正式处理，而黑人青年被捕的可能性最高（即使控制了基线后犯罪行为），这表明尽管少数民族青年的犯罪行为相似或更低，但他们在少年司法系统中的代表性过高。
