RT Article
T1 Estimating Targeted Group Threats in the Juvenile Justice System: An Examination of Disproportionate Minority Contact at Preadjudication Detention
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 1
SP 257
OP 285
A1 Zane, Steven N.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882523997
AB This study examines whether group threats in the surrounding social context positively moderate disproportionate minority contact at preadjudication detention in the juvenile justice system. To do so, the study utilizes a multijurisdictional sample of 96,619 juvenile court referrals across 139 counties (within four states) to examine a series of group threats?racial, ethnic, economic, and age threat. Due to the nested structure of the data, multilevel models are employed. To test the hypotheses, cross-level interactions between group threats and defendant race and ethnicity are estimated following current best practices for measuring interactions with nonlinear dependent variables. Findings indicate mixed and mostly limited support for the group threat hypotheses, consistent with prior mixed findings. Implications for research and policy are discussed.
K1 Detention
K1 Disproportionate minority contact
K1 group threat
K1 Juvenile Justice
K1 minority threat
DO 10.1177/00111287221098589