Disproportionate minority contact
Subtitle: current issues and policies
By: edited by Nicolle Parsons-Pollard
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781594608889
Subjects: Discrimination in juvenile justice administration; Case studies; Administration of Juvenile justice; Minority youth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Policies and practices that contribute to racial and ethnic disparity in juvenile justice / Ashley Nellis; title: Disproportionate minority contact (DMC) : a historical and contemporary; title: Perspective / Andrea R. Coleman; title: Measuring DMC : the origins and use of the relative rate index / William Feyerherm; title: An examination of the effects of race on intake decision-making in four jurisdictions at two different points in time / Myra Fields, Michael Leiber; title: Juvenile disproportionate minority contact (DMC) : the effects of the new criminal justice / Wayne, J. Pitts, Mary F. Campbell, L. Gabrielle Trimm; title: Assessing DMC initiatives : a case study of two states / Mary Poulin, Stan Orchowsky, Janice Iwama; title: Understanding disproportionality and child welfare / Marian S. Harris; title: Criminal justice, race, and the war on drugs / Ojmarrh Mitchell, Michael J. Lynch; title: Race, crime, and policing : the impact of law enforcement on persistent race-differentiated arrest rates / John David Reitzel; title: Raising the bar : prioritizing data collection for Latino youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system / Paul Elam, Francisco A. Villarruel, Lori Hoisington; title: Race, class, and crime control ideology : the case of the Cuban middle class / George Wilson, Aaron Puhrmann, Alex R. Piquero; title: The prison industrial complex : contributing mechanisms and collateral; title: Consequences of disproportionality on African-American communities / Isis N. Walton; title: Politics, policy, and DMC communities : the impact of community political disempowerment on DMC / Cherie Dawson-Edwards; title: Tackling the DMC mandate : researchers and universities as local resources / Nicolle Parsons-Pollard.