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Estimating the Effect of Race on Juvenile Court Decision-Making : = A Comparison of Methods.

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Title/Author:	Estimating the Effect of Race on Juvenile Court Decision-Making :/
Reminder of title:	A Comparison of Methods.
Author:	Gann, Shaun M.
Description:	1 online resource (182 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-07A(E).
Subject:	Criminology. -
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ISBN:	9780355662016

Estimating the Effect of Race on Juvenile Court Decision-Making : = A Comparison of Methods.
Gann, Shaun M.

Estimating the Effect of Race on Juvenile Court Decision-Making :A Comparison of Methods. - 1 online resource (182 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Prior research has found that disproportionate minority contact (DMC) is a problem at various decision-making points in the juvenile justice system. Some have argued that this is the result of discriminatory decisions by system actors, while others assert that it is due to legally relevant factors (e.g., differences in offense seriousness). A major challenge in assessing the relationship between race and juvenile justice outcomes is the difficulty in comparing similarly-situated youth from different racial groups.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355662016Subjects--Topical Terms:

563146
Criminology.
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554714
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Estimating the Effect of Race on Juvenile Court Decision-Making : = A Comparison of Methods.
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520 $a This dissertation addresses two limitations often found in prior DMC research. First, the majority of prior DMC studies have focused on a single juvenile court and/or a single stage of the court process. Due to the interconnectedness among court outcomes and the variation in decision-making processes across juvenile courts, these studies may under- or overestimate any possible effects of race on decision-making. As such, this dissertation uses a sample of over 50,000 youth referred to seven juvenile courts in Ohio to examine the relationship between race and five juvenile court outcomes: preadjudication detention, case dismissal, adjudication, secure confinement, and waiver to criminal court. Second, to obtain a true depiction of DMC, research must examine White and Non-White youth who are as similarly-situated as possible in all attributes except race. Unfortunately, the statistical analysis most often used to achieve this---multivariate logistic regression---may not be the most effective method to study DMC due to a number of potential limitations. As such, this dissertation compares the strengths and weaknesses of logistic regression and four counterfactual techniques in examining the relationship between race and juvenile court outcomes. The counterfactual methods used in this study are nearest neighbor matching, regression adjustment, inverse-probability weighting, and inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment.
520 $a Results from all five statistical techniques indicated that Non-White youth were significantly more likely than White youth to be detained prior to adjudication, placed in a secure confinement facility post-adjudication, and waived to criminal court. Results were mixed, however, regarding the case dismissal and adjudication outcomes. Two of the five methods indicated that Non-White youth were more likely to have their case dismissed and less likely to be adjudicated delinquent, while the other three methods produced nonsignificant results for these outcomes. Based on the findings---as well as available post-analysis diagnostics, covariate balance, and the fit between the data and the various methodologies---this study posits that nearest neighbor matching with exact matching is the best-equipped statistical technique to produce accurate estimates of the presence and extent of DMC in the juvenile justice system.
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