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Author: College of Business. Office of Business and Economic Research

Title: Assessment of Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice System

Summary: A new report, funded and commissioned by the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, was the first systematic examination of the problem of minority over-representation in Tennessee juvenile courts. Although the report did not identify any “smoking guns,” it did recommend changes. The report identified risk factors associated with confinement and listed recommendations to address systemic problems. The purpose of the report was to investigate the nature, extent, and causes of disproportionate minority confinement in Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice System. Seven counties, Davidson, Shelby, Knox, Hamilton, Madison, Blount, and Washington, were selected for study. Tennessee’s major urban counties had been previously identified as having significant DMC problems. Blount and Washington counties had not and were selected, in part, as control comparisons. The qualitative portion of the research relied upon case studies, interviews, and focus groups in the selected counties. These case studies and the individual file reviews allowed for deeper and a more long-term examination of individual cases, some of which went back more than 10 years with 10 or more appearances before the Juvenile Court. The quantitative research provided the snapshot of what happened in the year 2000.

Details: Nashville, TN: Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, 2003. 368p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 29, 2011 at: http://www.tennessee.gov/tccy/dmcrep.shtml

Year: 2003

Country: United States

URL: http://www.tennessee.gov/tccy/dmcrep.shtml

Shelf Number: 121201

Keywords:
Discrimination in the Juvenile Justice System
Disproportionate Minority Contact
Juvenile Justice Systems (Tennessee)
Juvenile Offenders
Minorities