In the 50 years since its inception, racial threat theory has gained substantial traction across
the social sciences and been widely embraced by scholars studying race, power structures …

Despite increased media attention, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has received
little scholarly attention. News coverage of BLM is often divisive, which suggests important …

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the
array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and …

Missing from the considerable body of literature on disproportionate minority contact is an
examination of the factors that influence risk of juvenile arrest. Using the National …

Black and male youths are overrepresented at every stage of juvenile justice processing.
The current study investigated racial, gender, and age disparities in the probability of a …

The overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minority youth in early stages of juvenile justice
processing remains a long-standing concern. The current study uses data from the National …

Noting the paucity of research on the racial threat hypothesis in the juvenile courts, this study
examined the interplay of defendant characteristics and country-level characteristics on …

Overrepresentation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system has been well-
documented. Although prior research has frequently drawn on attribution theory to explain …

In 2002, the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
required that states participating in the Formula Grants Program must put forth a good faith …

Decades of sentencing research have demonstrated that there are disparities in sentencing
outcomes based on race and ethnicity, sex, age, and racial/ethnic contexts, net of legally …