Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that investigates how interlocking systems of
power and oppression at the societal level influence the lived experiences of historically and …

Empirical studies on the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children have
burgeoned over the last three decades. Notably absent from existing approaches to studying …

Objectives: Drawing on focal concerns theory, as well as scholarship on the juvenile court's
mandate to consider youth culpability and amenability to treatment, we develop hypotheses …

The current study provides a systematic review of 107 studies. Studies were drawn from
academic journals, reports, and edited books from January 2001 to December 2014. The …

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 …

Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice
system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional …

Racial and gender disparities in case outcomes have recently been explained by a focus on
the characteristics of court officers within the context of the interplay between discretion …

While prior research has consistently found the presence of extralegal disparities in juvenile
justice decision-making, less research has investigated the combined effects of a juvenile's …

This study examines the joint effects of race/ethnicity and sex on the classification quality of
the Positive Achievement Change Tool (PACT). We assess predictive parity, calibration, and …

Both theory and research in the study of race in the juvenile justice system have attempted to
identify the contexts in which race matters. The objectives of the present research are to …