Maltreatment and delinquency: Investigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1035-1050

  Ryan, Joseph P ^a   Herz, Denise ^b   Hernandez, Pedro M ^a   Marshall, Jane Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Juvenile justice; Overrepresentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250631433     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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