This chapter examines the relationship between race and ethnicity and serious juvenile
offending through the use of data from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and self-report and …

Researchers have long observed differences in rates of serious juvenile and adult offending
among ethnic and racial groups in the United States. These differences have prompted …

The previous chapter (Bishop 2005) makes it clear that minority youth are overrepresented
in the juvenile justice system, and small differences in the handling of cases at early stages …

Using large-sample, archival data from the state of South Carolina's juvenile justice agency,
we examine the question of race differences in predictors of repeat offending for a sample of …

There is no doubt that African-American juveniles are more likely than Caucasian juveniles
to be arrested for serious (index) violent offenses in the United States (homicide, forcible …

There is general consensus that a disproportionate number of minority youth are
incarcerated, with incarceration rates for minorities that are two to four times that of Whites …

Studies using official data often indicate that crime rates are much higher for certain racial
and ethnic groups (Eaton & Polk, 1961; FBI, 1990; Kelly, 1977; Wolfgang, Figlio, & Sellin …

Psychiatric disorder prevalence has been shown demonstrably higher among justice-
involved adolescents than youth in the general population. Yet, among arrested juveniles …

A report issued by the National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups in 1989
indicated that blacks are overrepresented at various stages of the juvenile justice system …

Official record studies consistently show that Blacks exhibit higher levels of involvement in
criminal offending than Whites do. Although self-report studies suggest somewhat lower …