Minority youths and juvenile justice: Disproportionate minority contact after nearly 20 years of reform efforts

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-87

  Kempf Leonard, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disproportionate minority contact; Ethnicity; Minority overrepresentation; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547115446     PISSN: 15412040     EISSN: 15569330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1541204006295159     Document Type: Article

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