The Disproportionate Overrepresentation of Minority Youth in ...

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Well, if you look in this office, we only have two black officers, so we are
still dealing with the black/white issue when it comes to making decisions
and I think that has a lot to do with it. It goes back again to the attitudes. In
most cases whites will tolerate more from another white than they will
black and that is the truth. I have seen it happen. They are more afraid of
the blacks than they are the whites. And I have seen some of the same
kinds of threats made to the whites and a black would come along and
make the same kind of threat and it gets blown out of proportion.
I heard a fellow who sits on the advisory committee for this, Lement, a
black guy who worked in our business for many years, says that family
centered type services had a white Anglo-Saxon orientation to them
because the bulk of the population was white Anglo-Saxon and the service
providers were white Anglo-Saxon and because of these factors black
families that came into the system who were to take advantage of the
service alternatives out there were resistant to them. So, you can see the
self perpetuating system there. Therefore, family therapy will likely be
distrusted and discarded by black clients to whom it is offered and
therefore, those kids eventually find there way to hard treatment sooner. I
bought it 100 percent...
Females Placement
The research from the first phase of the study also yielded a gender effect.
Females were more likely than males to receive a disposition of a change of placement,
controlling for all relevant legal and extralegal factors. The explanations for this
occurrence centered on the perceived differences between female and male delinquents
and the youths’ parents.
I think that has to do with the number of different things that they have to
get into before they get here. A girls who is a 15 year old child in need of
assistance, who refuses to come home and stays out all night long, who is
into partying and does all kinds