Assessing Variations in Juvenile Court Processing in Urban Versus Rural Courts: Revisiting “Justice by Geography”

IF 1.5 1区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI:10.1177/15412040211009585

Jhon A. Pupo, S. Zane

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Abstract

Drawing on Feld’s (1991) “justice by geography” thesis, we examined whether juvenile court outcomes and case-level influences on those outcomes varied across urban and rural courts. Using a sample of 60,068 juvenile referrals across 66 counties in one state, we estimated direct effects of urbanism on detention, petition, adjudication, and judicial placement, as well as cross-level interactions between urbanism and several case-level factors for each outcome. We found limited support for the hypotheses. First, findings indicated that odds of detention were significantly greater in more urban courts, but indicated no differences in other outcomes. Second, findings also indicated greater extralegal differences (race, sex, and age) in more urban courts—contrary to hypotheses. Taken together, findings highlight the localized yet complex nature of juvenile justice processing and emphasize the need for additional multilevel research assessing the role of other contextual factors as potential sources of variation across macrosocial units.

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评估城市与农村法院未成年人法庭处理的差异——对“地域正义”的再认识

根据Feld（1991）的“地理正义”论文，我们研究了青少年法庭的结果以及案件层面对这些结果的影响是否因城市和农村法庭而异。使用一个州66个县的60068名青少年转介样本，我们估计了城市化对拘留、请愿、裁决和司法安置的直接影响，以及城市化与每个结果的几个案件层面因素之间的跨层面互动。我们发现对这些假设的支持有限。首先，调查结果表明，在更多的城市法院，被拘留的几率要高得多，但在其他结果上没有差异。其次，调查结果还表明，在更多的城市法院中，法外差异（种族、性别和年龄）更大，这与假设相反。总之，研究结果强调了青少年司法处理的本地化但复杂的性质，并强调需要进行额外的多层次研究，评估其他背景因素作为宏观社会单元差异的潜在来源的作用。

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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides academics and practitioners in juvenile justice and related fields with a resource for publishing current empirical research on programs, policies, and practices in the areas of youth violence and juvenile justice. Emphasis is placed on such topics as serious and violent juvenile offenders, juvenile offender recidivism, institutional violence, and other relevant topics to youth violence and juvenile justice such as risk assessment, psychopathy, self-control, and gang membership, among others. Decided emphasis is placed on empirical research with specific implications relevant to juvenile justice process, policy, and administration. Interdisciplinary in scope, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice serves a diverse audience of academics and practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, behavior analysis, sociology, law, counseling, public health, and all others with an interest in youth violence and juvenile justice.