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Author: Stevens Andersen, Tia
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Juvenile Arrest and Court Outcomes using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) Presented: New Orleans LA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Arrests; Criminal Justice System; Delinquency/Gang Activity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The literature of the last three decades shows the impact of race and ethnicity on police behavior and juvenile justice processing. One method of examining DMC with the justice system that has been neglected in research is the analysis of longitudinal individual-level data. This presentation will focus on the author's efforts to examine youth contact with the justice system using the NLSY97, a large, longitudinal, nationally-representative sample of individuals born between 1980 and 1984 who resided in the United States when data collection began in 1997. Although designed to examine school-to-labor force transitions among respondents, the NLSY97 collects extensive information on respondents' personal characteristics, migration patterns, delinquent and criminal behaviors, and contact with the justice system. The author will discuss advantages and challenges of working with the NLSY97 justice system contact data, as well as the results of recent research framed within racial/ethnic threat perspective that emphasizes the importance of community structural conditions that may partially explain disparities in youth arrest, intake, adjudication, and placement in a correctional institution. |
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Stevens Andersen, Tia. "Juvenile Arrest and Court Outcomes using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)." Presented: New Orleans LA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2016. |
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Race, Ethnicity, and Structural Variations in Youth Risk of Arrest: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Sample Criminal Justice and Behavior 42,9 (September 2015): 900-916. Also: http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/42/9/900 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Arrests; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Ethnic Differences; Geocoded Data; Racial Differences; Unemployment Rate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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 Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, the author examines racial/ethnic disparities in youth arrest, net of self-reported delinquency. Drawing from research using a minority threat perspective, this study examines whether disparities are exacerbated by macro levels of the relative size of the minority population and minority economic inequality. The results indicate Black youth have a higher risk of arrest than White youth in all contextual climates, but this disparity is magnified in predominantly non-Black communities. Differences between Hispanic and White youths' risk of arrest did not reach statistical significance or vary across communities. The findings failed to yield support for the threat perspective but strongly supported the benign neglect thesis. Implications for theory and future research are discussed. |
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Bibliography Citation
Stevens Andersen, Tia. "Race, Ethnicity, and Structural Variations in Youth Risk of Arrest: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Sample." Criminal Justice and Behavior 42,9 (September 2015): 900-916.
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