TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Juvenile Justice Decision-Making Before and After the Implementation of the Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Mandate
JO  - Justice quarterly
A1  - Leiber, Michael
A1  - Bishop, Donna
A1  - Chamlin, Mitchell B.
SP  - 460
EP  - 492
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
N2  - The disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) mandate was included in the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act in 1988 and required states to assess the extent DMC was evident and to develop strategies to address the issue. The DMC mandate was designed to achieve equal treatment of youth within the juvenile justice system. In the present study, we analyzed the predictors of juvenile justice decision-making before and after the mandate to determine the impact of possible changes in the relative influence of legal criteria and extralegal considerations, especially race, on case outcomes in one juvenile court. The findings indicate that the factors impacting decision-making, for the most part, did not change in significance or relative impact though some unanticipated race effects were found at judicial disposition following the mandate.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0741-8825
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2010.516005
ID  - ref1
ER  -