Examining Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Effect of Politics, Race, and Gender on Youth Arrests

• In Event: Race and the criminal (in)justice system

Brief Overview

Study examines how representative bureaucracy can better explain the outputs and outcomes of Florida’s juvenile justice system in terms of youth arrests and disparities in arrests rates than political control of bureaucracy.

Authors

• William T. Jackson, Florida International University

• Milena I. Neshkova, Florida International University