What Context Matters and at What Level? A Test of Racial/Ethnic Threat, Symbolic Threat, and Structural Inequality Perspectives in Juvenile Court Decision-Making

Autor:	Ellen A. Donnelly, Michael J. Leiber, Yunmei Lu
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Juvenile court Racial threat Inequality media_common.quotation_subject Ethnic group Context (language use) Criminology Racial ethnic Pathology and Forensic Medicine Test (assessment) Sociology Law media_common Structural inequality
Zdroj:	Crime & Delinquency. 67:234-261
ISSN:	1552-387X 0011-1287
DOI:	10.1177/0011128720938344
Popis:	Do traditional theories of conflict influence juvenile court decision-making and explain racial/ethnic disparities? Racial/ethnic threat, symbolic threat, and structural inequality perspectives purport social controls increase when groups differ in race, ethnicity, or class. Scholarship tends to test one perspective at a time and use county as a unit of analysis. Taking a comparative approach, this study evaluates whether contextual indicators of these three theories, measured at the county- and zip code-levels, contribute to Black-White and Latino-White disparities in court decisions. Multilevel models reveal weak and partial support for each perspective. More effects appear at the zip code-level, indicating conflict may occur within rather than across courts. Macro-level theories must then be reconsidered to describe modern-day juvenile court proceedings.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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