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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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Results for juvenile arrests
2 results foundAuthor: Beardslee, Jordan Bechtold Title: Under the Radar or Under Arrest: How Does Contact with the Juvenile Justice System Affect Delinquency and Academic Outcomes? Summary: Although many studies have found that arrested youth are more likely than non-arrested youth to experience later maladjustment, methodological limitations restrict the generalizations of prior work. Perhaps the most noteworthy limitation in prior work is the possibility of selection effects, with arrested youth likely to have very different psychological and behavioral profiles pre-justice system contact than non-arrested youth. This leaves us wondering whether the observed maladjustment is due to the type of adolescent who comes to the attention of law enforcement or due the type of justice system interventions that arrested youth experience. This study overcomes these limitations by comparing the outcomes of demographically similar male adolescents who have committed the same crimes but who differ with regard to whether they were "caught" for their crimes. Using propensity score matching to compare arrested and non-arrested youth, I investigated whether contact with the justice system does, in fact, contribute to school-related outcomes, substance use, and delinquency and whether these relations vary based on whether arrested youth are formally processed or diverted from the system. When selection effects are taken into consideration, results indicate that contact with the juvenile justice system does not have a universally harmful effect on development. Diversion (informally processing youth) actually deters future offending, school misconduct, school truancy, and school suspensions. However, both diverted and formally processed youth, regardless of their actual antisocial and illegal behavior, are more likely than no-contact youth to be arrested during the study period, according to official court records. The risk of re-arrest is highest for formally processed youth. Formally processed youth are also more likely than no-contact and diverted youth to be transferred to an alternative or continuation school. Taken together, results suggest that increased justice system surveillance might improve school performance and deter offending, but it also might lead to more contact with the system. Although an adolescent's first arrest might lead to positive outcomes in the immediate future, the effects of subsequent contacts are unknown. As such, the data suggest that the default policy should be to divert low-level first-time offenders and keep the justice system's involvement to a minimum. Details: Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine, 2014. 201p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed January 31, 2015 at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/248533.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/248533.pdf Shelf Number: 134511 Keywords: Juvenile ArrestsJuvenile DiversionJuvenile Justice SystemJuvenile Offenders (U.S.)Recidivism |
Author: Hales, Gavin Title: Dissecting the Headlines: Ethnic Disproportionality in Child Arrests by the Metropolitan Police Summary: In the context of the government's ongoing Racial Disparity Audit, the Howard League recently published data on arrests of children (aged 10 to 17), examining the relationship between the proportion of those who were BAME (black, Asian or minority ethnic) and the ethnic composition of the wider population, on a forceby-force basis. This included the Metropolitan Police, where the finding that 60 per cent of child arrests in 2016 were BAME was contrasted with the fact that London's overall population is 40 per cent BAME (as at 2011). The ethnic profile of the total population was used due to 'a lack of population data specifically in relation to boys and girls aged 10 to 17', which the Howard League conceded 'makes it difficult to assess whether forces are making a disproportionately high number of BAME child arrests'. In the case of London, however, very detailed demographic data are readily available, in the form of population projections published and periodically refreshed by the Greater London Authority (GLA). This includes population data broken down by borough, sex, ethnicity and single year of age on an annual basis over an extended period. I have previously used an earlier iteration of these data to examine ethnic disproportionality in the policing of cannabis possession, in combination with incident-level police data.5 In this paper I am going to use those detailed demographic data to examine ethnic disproportionality in child arrests in London. In doing so, I will include links to the data sources, describe my methods, provide tables of key data, and highlight the most important findings. I hope this analysis will prove useful, both to inform debates about the use of arrest powers in London, but also for anyone interested in the question of ethnic disproportionality as it relates to policing and crime (but also other areas of public policy). Details: London: Police Foundation, 2017. 16p. Source: Internet Resource: Perspectives on Policing: Paper 2: Accessed February 2, 2018 at: http://www.police-foundation.org.uk/2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ethnic_disproportionality_in_child_arrests.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.police-foundation.org.uk/2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ethnic_disproportionality_in_child_arrests.pdf Shelf Number: 148980 Keywords: Discrimination Disproportionate Minority Contact Juvenile ArrestsJuvenile Offenders Police Legitimacy Racial Disparities |