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Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "prevalent phenomenon of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the juvenile justice system" is described (p. v). Eight chapters comprise this monograph: measuring racial disparities in the juvenile justice system; policy changes and their effect on DMC; federal legislation mandating reduction of DMC; causal factors of juvenile DMC -- the problem of compound risk; effective methods for and approaches to reducing DMC; successful models; multiple intervention strategies; and a call to action.