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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contextual Characteristics In Juvenile Sentencing : Examining The Impact Of Concentrated Disadvantage On Youth Court Outcomes by Rimonda Maroun
While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors. This book assesses how a specific contextual factor-concentrated disadvantage-impacts juvenile court outcomes and considers the relevant implications for the current state of juvenile justice processing._x000D_
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Using case-level data from a Southern state with a large, diverse population and contextual-level data from the 2010 US Census and American Community Survey, Maroun assesses whether youth living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadv.show more