Racial Disproportionality in Juvenile Justice: The Interaction of Race and Geography in Pretrial Detention for Violent and Serious Offenses

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 257-266

  Shook, Jeffrey J ^a   Goodkind, Sara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detention; Disproportionality; Geography; Juvenile justice; Police decision making; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455253136     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-009-9021-3     Document Type: Article

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