Race and Juvenile Justice addresses the correlation between race, juvenile delinquency and justice. Through various essays addressing historical contexts, Part One discusses racial disparities regarding juvenile delinquency among white, Latino, black, Asian American, and Native American youth. The second part explores significant issues such as domestic violence, gang involvement, the application of the death penalty to minors, the disproportionate incarceration of minorities, the due process revolution, and the positive and negative effects of both prevention and intervention . Through this collection, Everette Penn, Helen Taylor Greene, and Shaun L. Gabbidon attempt to provide answers to the occurrence of racial disparity in juvenile delinquency and solutions for how to address and prevent the long-standing problem that continues to plague the United States. States. The first chapter focuses on white juvenile delinquency. Pamela Preston begins by acknowledging the significance of school shootings in the 1990s and presents many recent similar incidents involving young white males as school shooters. This phenomenon is the exception to the otherwise decline in self-reported white juvenile delinquency. While self-reported delinquency has decreased, arrests of white juveniles have increased. One proposed reason for this is the possible prejudicial response to these particular shootings. Preston then compares juvenile crime arrests that occurred in rural, suburban, and urban areas, followed by an analysis of substance abuse statistics. The causes of white delinquency are then explored. Accordingly, Preston cites the differential association model, control theory, and social learning theory; deducing that having a positive attitude towards school, being involved in conventional activities, having involved parents and having been arrested contribute to reducing this tendency
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