Intake Procedures For Juvenile Justice

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This paper examines how there are many valid, and even disturbing, questions surrounding fairness issues in the processing (arrest, intake screening, assignment to incarceration) of juveniles into the criminal justice system in America. It looks at how the disproportionate number of minorities locked up in juvenile justice systems is a glaring issue that has not really been addressed adequately. It also discusses how it is likely that the intake processes are going to continue to be based prevention and punishment rather than fairness and justice.

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"Bias against minority children incarcerated in the juvenile justice system - and a lack of good mental health service for them - is an unequivocal reality. Certainly, based on the research (Thomas, et al, 1999) an analysis of previous empirical data, it appears that when the juvenile is an African American, that offender is far more apt to a) receive a more severe disposition at the intake level; and, b) when in potential need of mental health services, be tossed in JJS lockup rather than given the health care required. Research shows that adolescents are clearly subject to "irrevocable stereotypes" in JJSs, the authors say, an "inequitable" phenomenon which has invoked criticism from a wide range of groups."

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