This study examines the empirical research on legal representation in delinquency
proceedings and situates it in the broader investigation of how states provide legal …

ABSTRACT Influenced by Dr. Michael Leiber, a body of juvenile justice research explores
how legal, extralegal and institutional decision-making factors racialize the process of …

This study uses 16 years (2002–2017) of federal criminal drug sentences from the US
Sentencing Commission (USSC) to examine trends in two criminal sentencing outcomes …

Little research has explored the psychological mechanisms underlying racial disparities in
the juvenile justice system. In Phase 1, of our mock officer paradigm, participants completed …

Prior research on race/ethnicity and juvenile court processing have found that youth of color
often receive disadvantaged outcomes compared to their White counterparts, and that …

This study explores how prosocial attitudes, including self-efficacy, locus of control, and
readiness for change, may predict desistance across offense types for serious and violent …

According to the focal concerns perspective, the concerns guiding judges' sentencing
considerations are blameworthiness and harm, community protection, and practical …

While a significant amount of literature has emphasized the identification and explanation of
disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the juvenile justice system, less research has …

Background Given high rates of substance use among justice-involved youth, justice
systems have attempted to monitor use through drug screening (DS) procedures. However …

Abstract Purpose The United States Supreme Court decision In re Gault highlighted the
importance of legal representation throughout juvenile justice proceedings. However, prior …