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Title: Juvenile Arrest and Court Outcomes using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
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1. 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
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Arrests; Criminal Justice System; Delinquency/Gang Activity

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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.