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racial differences in juvenile justice  

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  • In the late 1990s, ethnic minority youth accounted for one third of the adolescent population in the United States and yet comprised nearly two thirds of the 100,000 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities (Poe-Yamagata & Jones, 2000; Pope & Feyerherm, 1995). Disproportionate minority confinement, or DMC, is the term that refers to the phenomenon in which the percentage of ethnic minority youth incarcerated in the juvenile justice system exceeds their proportions in the general population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Juvenile Justice, Racial Differences]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PKHBSX2V-N

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