Unraveling bias in arrest decisions: The role of juvenile offender typescripts

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 427-457

  Sealock, Miriam D ^a   Simpson, Sally S ^b  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977651350     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418829800093831     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Black, D. 1980. The Manners and Customs of the Police. New York: Academic Press.
2. Canter, R.J. 1982. “Sex Differences in Self-Reported Delinquency.” Criminology 20:373-93.
3. Carrington, K. 1990. “Feminist Readings of Female Delinquency.” Feminism, Law and Society 8:5031.
4. Cernkovich, S.A, and P.C. Giordano. 1979. “A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Delinquency.” Sociological Quarterly 20:131-45.
5. Chambliss, W.J. and R.B. Seidman. 1971. Law and Order. Reading, MA: Addison- Wesley.
6. Chesney-Lind, M. 1973. “Judicial Enforcement of the Female Sex Role.” Issues in Criminology 8:51-69.
7. Chesney-Lind, M. 1995. “Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice: Toward a Feminist Theory of Young Women’s Crime.” Pp. 71-88 in The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Victims, and Workers, edited by B.R. Price and N.J. Sokoloff. New York: McGraw-Hill.
8. Chesney-Lind, M. and R.G. Shelden. 1992. Girls Delinquency and Juvenile Justice. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
9. Clogg, C.C., E. Petkova, and A. Haritou. 1995. “Symposium on Applied Regression: Statistical Methods for Comparing Regression Coefficients between Models.” American Journal of Sociology 100:1261-93.
10. Dannefer, D. 1984. “Who Signs the Complaint? Relational Distance and the Juvenile Justice Process.” Law and Society Review 18:249-71.
11. DeFleuer, L.B. 1975. “Biasing Influences on Drug Arrest Records: Implications for Deviance Research.” American Sociological Review 40:88-101.
12. Ferraro, K.J. 1989. “Policing Woman Battering.” Social Problems 36:61-74.
13. Feyerherm, W. 1980. “Gender Differences in Delinquency: Quantity and Quality.” Pp. 82-92 in 'Women and Crime in America, edited by L.H. Bowker. New York: Macmillan.
14. Gelsthorpe, L. 1986. “Towards a Sceptical Look at Sexism.” International Journal of the Sociology of Law 14:125-52.
15. Haggart, J.R. 1973. “Women and Crime.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 1:42-47.
16. Harris, A.R. 1977. “Sex and Theories of Deviance: Toward a Functional Theory of Deviant Typescripts.” American Sociological Review 42:3-16.
17. Harris, A.R. 1993. “Gender and Race in the Theory of Deviant Type-Scripts.” Sociological Inquiry 63:166-201.
18. Harris, A.R. and G.d. Hill. 1986. “Bias in Status Processing Decisions.” Pp. 1-89 in Rationality and Collective Belief, edited by A.R. Harris. Norword, NJ: Ablex.
19. Herz, D.C. 1997. “Exploring Medicalization within the Juvenile Justice System.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland.
20. Hill, G.D. and A.R. Harris. 1981. “Changes in the Gender Patterning of Crime, 1953-1977: Opportunity vs. Identity.” Social Science Quarterly 62:658-71.
21. Hill, G.D., A.R. Harris, and J.L. Miller. 1985. “The Etiology of Bias: Social Heuristics and Rational Decision Making in Deviance Processing.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 22:135-62.
22. Hindelang, M.J. 1976. “With a Little Help from Their Friends: Group Participation in Reported Delinquent Behavior.” British Journal of Criminology 16:109-25.
23. Hindelang, M.J., T. Hirsehi, and J.G. Weis. 1981. Measuring Delinquency. Beverly Hills: Sage.
24. Horowitz, R. and A.E. Pottieger. 1988. “Gender Bias in Juvenile Justice Handling of Seriously Crime-Involved Youths.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 28:75-100.
25. Klinger, D.A. 1994. “Demeanor or Crime? Why ‘Hostile’ Citizens Are More Likely to be Arrested.” Criminology 32:475-93.
26. Klinger, D.A. 1996. “More on Demeanor and Arrest in Dade County.” Criminology 34:61-82.
27. Loffland, J. 1969. Deviance and Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
28. Lundman, R.J. 1979. “Organizational Norms and Police Discretion.” Criminology 17:159-71.
29. Lundman, R.J. 1994. “Demeanor or Crime? The Midwest City Police-Citizen Encounters Study.” Criminology 32:631-56.
30. Mills, C.W. 1940. “Situated Actions and Vocabulary of Motive.” American Sociological Review 6:904-13.
31. Morash, M. 1984. “Establishment of a Juvenile Police Record: The Influence of Individual and Peer Group Characteristics.” Criminology 22:97-111
32. Piliavin, I. and S. Briar. 1964. “Police Encounters with Juveniles.” American Journal of Sociology 70:206-14.
33. Quinney, R. 1974. Critique of Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society. Boston: Little, Brown.
34. Rafter, N.H. 1985. Partial Justice: ''Nomen in State Prisons, 1800-1935. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
35. Rubinstein, J. 1973. City Police. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
36. Sampson, R.J. 1986. “Effects of Socioeconomic Context on Official Reaction to Juvenile Delinquency.” American Sociological Review 51:876-86.
37. Schlossman, S. and S. Wallach. 1978. “The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era.” Harvard Educational Review 48:65-94.
38. Simpson, S.S. and L. Elis. 1995. “Doing Gender: Sorting Out the Caste and Crime Conundrum.” Criminology 33:47-81.
39. Skolnick, J.H. 1966. Justice without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society. New York: Wiley.
40. Smith, D. A. 1986. “The Neighborhood Context of Police Behavior.” Crime and Justice 8:313-41.
41. Smith, D. A. 1987. “Police Response to Interpersonal Violence: Defining the Parameters of Legal Control.” Social Forces 65:767-82.
42. Smith, D.A. and J. Klein. 1984. “Police Control of Interpersonal Disputes.” Social Problems 31:468-81.
43. Smith, D.A. and C.A. Visher. 1980. “Sex and Involvement in Deviance/Crime: A Quantitative Review of the Empirical Literature.” American Sociological Review 45:691-701.
44. Smith, D.A. 1981. “Street-Level Justice: Situational Determinants of Police Arrest Decisions.” Social Problems 29:167-77.
45. Smith, D.A., C.A. Visher, and L. Davidson. 1984. “Equality and Discretionary Justice: The Influence of Race on Police Arrest Decisions.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 75:234-49.
46. Smith, L.S. 1978. “Sexist Assumptions and Female Delinquency.” Pp. in Women, Sexuality, and Social Control, edited by C. Smart and B. Smart. London: Rout- ledge and Kegan Paul.
47. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. 1995. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics.
48. Steffensmeier, D.J. 1978. “Crime and the Contemporary Woman: An Analysis of Changing Levels of Female Property Crime, 1960-75.” Social Forces 57:566-84.
49. Steffensmeier, D.J. and R.H. Steffensmeier. 1980. “Trends in Female Delinquency: An Examination of Arrest, Juvenile Court, Self-Report, and Field Data.” Criminology 18:62-85.
50. Sykes, R.e., J.C. Fox, and J.P. Clark, 1976. “A Socio-Legal Theory of Police Discretion.” Pp, 171-83 in The Ambivalent Force; Perspectives on the Police, edited by A. Blumberg and A. Niederhoffer. Hinsdale, IL: Dryden
51. Tracy, P.E., M.E. Wolfgang, and R.M. Figlio. 1990. Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts. New York: Plenum.
52. Triplett, R. 1993. “The Conflict Perspective, Symbolic Interaetionism, and the Status Characteristics Hypothesis.” Justice Quarterly 10:541-58.
53. Visher, C.A. 1983. “Gender, Police Arrest Decisions, and Notions of Chivalry.” Criminology 21:5-28.
54. Worden, R.E. and R.L. Shepard. 1996. “Demeanor, Crime, and Police Behavior: A Reexamination of the Police Services Study Data.” Criminology 34:83-105.