Race and Juvenile Justice
Edited by: Everette B. Penn, Helen Taylor Greene, Shaun L. Gabbidon
2005
Tags: Juvenile Justice, Race and Ethnicity Issues
288 pp $28.00
ISBN 978-0-89089-572-6
An edited volume, Race and Juvenile Justice offers a collection of readings that examines race and the juvenile justice system in a historical and social context. Part I of the volume is dedicated to each of the American racial /ethnic groups (African-American, Asian-American, Latino-American, Native-American, and White-American). These readings present the complexities of juvenile justice issues as they relate to each prospective group. Part II of the volume presents articles on Disproportionate Minority Confinement, the history of race in juvenile justice, gangs, the role of domestic violence in juvenile justice, and juveniles and the death penalty. The volume concludes with an article that examines delinquency prevention and intervention strategies.