RT Article
T1 The Impact of Concentrated Affluence and Disadvantage on the Pre-Adjudication Detention Decision: a Status Characteristics Approach
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 66
IS 6/7
SP 915
OP 948
A1 Lowery, Patrick G.
A2 Smith, Jessica C.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1698114346
AB 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.
K1 Juvenile justice
K1 Pre-adjudication detention
K1 Concentrated disadvantage and affluence
K1 Race
K1 Disparities
DO 10.1177/0011128720907581