The Impact of Concentrated Affluence and Disadvantage on the Pre-Adjudication Detention Decision: a Status Characteristics Approach

Studies of racial disparities in juvenile justice are primarily organized around four theoretical frameworks: focal concerns, racial threat, symbolic threat, and attribution theory. Moreover, juvenile justice research sometimes neglects to pay close attention to the front-end outcome of pre-adjudica...

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Authors: Lowery, Patrick G. (Author) ; Smith, Jessica C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2020, Volume: 66, Issue: 6/7, Pages: 915-948
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Juvenile justice
Pre-adjudication detention
Concentrated disadvantage and affluence
Race
Disparities
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Summary:Studies of racial disparities in juvenile justice are primarily organized around four theoretical frameworks: focal concerns, racial threat, symbolic threat, and attribution theory. Moreover, juvenile justice research sometimes neglects to pay close attention to the front-end outcome of pre-adjudication detention. Therefore, the present study contends that status characteristics theory may broaden our understanding of how and why disparities in pre-adjudication detention arise. Moreover, the present study seeks to find how juvenile justice disparities in pre-adjudication detention emerge across races, among other social, legal, and community factors. Therefore, the present study focuses on the pre-adjudication detention decisions of judges and probation officers, utilizing quantitative data from the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice and merged with American Community Survey data.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128720907581