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Racial impact statements • Regardless of cause, disparate racial impact should be avoided. The collateral consequences of unnecessary involvement in the juvenile justice system are long-standing. • Similar to environmental impact statements • Require policymakers to examine all pending legislation and policy changes with an eye toward possible consequences based on race. • States that have enacted or will introduce legislation in the coming year: • Connecticut • Iowa • Minnesota • New York • Texas • Oregon The Sentencing Project 24
Improve the dmc core requirement • Senate Bill 678 suggests that the DMC core protection should be strengthened by requiring States to take concrete steps to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. • States should be required to: • Establish coordinating bodies to oversee efforts to reduce disparities; • Identify key decision points in the system and the criteria by which decisions are made; • Create systems to collect local data at every point of contact youth have with the juvenile justice system (disaggregated by descriptors such as race, ethnicity and offense) to identify where disparities exist and the causes of those disparities; • Develop and implement plans to address disparities that include measurable objectives for change; • Publicly report findings; and • Evaluate progress toward reducing disparities. The Sentencing Project 25
Page 1 and 2: Policies & Practices that Unfairly
Page 3 and 4: Commonly Identified causes of dmc
Page 5 and 6: Black : White Relative Rate Indices
Page 7 and 8: Looking Outside the System • Most
Page 9 and 10: Structural disadvantages create an
Page 11 and 12: Police in Schools • School-based
Page 13 and 14: Who is Watching After the Students?
Page 15 and 16: High school dropouts much more like
Page 17 and 18: Foster care system • More than 50
Page 19 and 20: Foster care and the justice system
Page 21 and 22: Substance abuse and mental health a
Page 23: solutions • Racial impact stateme
Page 27: information Ashley Nellis Research

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