RT Article
T1 The Liberation Hypothesis Perspective and Juvenile Court Outcomes: implications for an Understanding of the Interplay Between Offender and Offense Characteristics
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 66
IS 6/7
SP 806
OP 836
A1 Beaudry-Cyr, Maude
A2 Leiber, Michael J.
A2 Brubaker, Sarah Jane
A2 Jaynes, Chae M.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1698105541
AB Extensive empirical support demonstrates the importance of legal (e.g., crime severity, prior record) and extralegal factors (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender) in predicting juvenile court outcomes. An understudied area is inquiry into how certain extralegal factors interact with legal determinants to impact the social control of juveniles. This study uses a sample of delinquent referrals from a Northeast state over 10 years to examine the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, crime severity, and prior record, individually and in combination, on juvenile court outcomes. Although the liberation hypothesis predicts that extralegal factors have a diminishing effect on case outcomes as the severity of the case increases, overall, we fail to find support for this expectation.
K1 Juvenile sentencing
K1 Race/ethnicity
K1 Gender
K1 Liberation hypothesis
DO 10.1177/0011128719894916