Reducing Disproportionate Minority Confinement: The Multnomah County, Oregon Success Story and its Implications
Publication year:
2002
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The actions of one agency that have been successful in reducing its population of minority pre-trial juvenile detainees are recounted. Topics covered include: the need to focus on disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) in juvenile detention; attempts to reduce disparity in detention; Multnomah strategies to reduce DMC; and the Multnomah success story. The detention gap between African Americans and whites was reduced from an 11-percentage point difference in 1994 to a percentage point difference of 3 by the year 2000 -- an 8-percentage point decrease.