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Title: Effects of County and State Contextual Factors on Youth Disproportionate Contact with the Justice System
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Stevens, Tia |
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Effects of County and State Contextual Factors on Youth Disproportionate Contact with the Justice System Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Arrests; Criminal Justice System; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Geocoded Data; Modeling, Multilevel; Racial Differences; State-Level Data/Policy Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The current study identifies the county- and state-level political, economic, and social factors associated with severity of justice system response to youth. It also identifies which contextual factors moderate relationships between individual-level characteristics and severity of the justice system response. The data analyzed was created by joining the public-use National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) with county- and state-specific data via the restricted use county-level NLSY97 geocode data. To take advantage of the longitudinal nature of the NLSY97 data, a combination of multilevel modeling techniques and generalized linear modeling was employed to examine the effects of individual characteristics and contextual conditions on youths’ hazard of arrest and probabilities of charge, a court appearance, conviction, and placement, controlling for self-reported delinquent behavior. This project has the potential to show whether economic, political, and social contexts have a disproportionate impact on the arrest, conviction, and placement of minority youth, especially young women of color. Knowing this may explain the high levels of disproportionate minority penetration into the juvenile justice system as well as girls’ increased proportion of juvenile justice system caseloads. |
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Stevens, Tia. "Effects of County and State Contextual Factors on Youth Disproportionate Contact with the Justice System." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2013. |