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
A1 Leiber, Michael J.
A1 Brubaker, Sarah Jane
A1 Jaynes, Chae M.
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