… juvenile court proceedings in three states involving 37 counties. The racial and ethnic threat
… of population size and economic threat on juvenile court outcomes involving Whites, African …

… covering 63,958 juvenile cases nested within 34 counties of a single state. The data confirmed
our expectation of minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system, with Black …

… between minority threat and juvenile court outcomes, we … in terms of the log odds of juvenile
court intake, adjudication, and … results graphically as predicted probabilities of juvenile court …

… First, while most minority threat research focuses on sentencing outcomes, the present article
… Although prior research on minority threat in the criminal and juvenile justice system has …

… /ethnic threat on juvenile court decision-making. More specifically, we assess the influence
of racial/ethnic threat on juvenile court outcomes … /ethnic threat impacts court processing. The …

… The present study seeks to shed light on juvenile sentencing outcomes through the … solution
to the overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system may be beyond our …

… overrepresentation of minorities in the juvenile justice system. … relationship between the
racial threat hypothesis and Black–… racial threat, its use makes it easier to compare results from …

… The data included a national sample of 3457 juveniles convicted in criminal court during …
racial/ethnic hypothesis was examined to assess its effect on sentencing among juveniles in …

… threat hypothesis offers any explanation for disproportionate minority contact (DMC) with the
juvenile justice system. The … Our findings showed minority youth were detained significantly …

… Second, we consider the influence of conflict on juvenile court decisions at two levels of
analysis: county and zip code. Doing so allows us to determine whether a theory is explanatory …