| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 203 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Criminal justice recent scholarship
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index. |
| Contents |
Overview -- Disproportionate confinement of African-American male delinquents -- Major developments in delinquency, intervention, policy, and theory -- Social ecology and juvenile delinquency -- Problem, participants, and procedures -- Relationships among variables -- Interpretations and implications. |
| Summary |
Mooradian finds that the disproportionate number of African-American youth who are confined as juvenile delinquents is not purely a product of their delinquent acts. In analyses of real-world social agency data, particular combinations of personal, familial, societal, and juvenile-justice variables emerged as the best explanations for the problem. In addition, Mooradian suggests that culturally-sensitive measures are required in order to represent the particular experience of African-American youth and families. Analysis of some widely used clinical measures indicates that many of the included items and factors are inapplicable to African-Americans. Thus, he presents new scales, developed from these instruments, to improve the validity of measurement and the utility of the results. Historical issues in confinement of juveniles, and implications for further research, policy decisions, and intervention are discussed. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration -- United States.
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Discrimination in juvenile justice administration. |
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United States. |
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Juvenile detention -- United States.
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Juvenile detention. |
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African American juvenile delinquents.
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African American juvenile delinquents. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mooradian, John K., 1953- Disproportionate confinement of African-American juvenile delinquents. New York : LFB Scholarly, 2003 1931202699 (DLC) 2003016256 (OCoLC)52706650 |
| ISBN |
1593320779 (electronic book) |
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9781593320775 (electronic book) |
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9781931202695 (alkaline paper) |
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1931202699 (alkaline paper) |
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