Introduction: Contemporary issues of race/ethnicity, offending behavior, and justice responses Jennifer H. Peck 1. The role of juvenile adjudications in the disproportional incarceration of African-American and Hispanic defendants Jeffery T. Ulmer and Julia A. Laskorunsky 2. Assessing the impact of deportable status on sentencing outcomes in a sample of state prisoners Erin A. Orrick, Kiersten Compofelice and Alex R. Piquero 3.
Minority threat and criminal sentencing: examining juveniles in the adult criminal justice system Kareem L. Jordan and Rimonda Maroun 4. Court communities in local context: a multilevel analysis of felony sentencing in South Carolina Rhys Hester and Eric L. Sevigny 5. A jury of whose peers? The impact of selection procedures on racial composition and the prevalence of majority-white juries Jacinta M. Gau 6. Race, prior offending, and juvenile court outcomes Michael J. Leiber 7.
Weapon and drug offenses and juvenile disproportionate minority contact: an impact assessment and practical discussion Christopher J. Sullivan, Derek J. Mueller, Shaun M. Gann, Stephanie N. Spiegel and Hannah D. McManus 8. Does who appears before the juvenile court matter on adjudication and disposition outcomes? The interaction between client race and lawyer type Jennifer H. Peck and Maude Beaudry-Cyr 9.
Racial disparities in referrals to mental health and substance abuse services from the juvenile justice system: a review of the literature Elizabeth Spinney, Martha Yeide, William Feyerherm, Marcia Cohen, Rachel Stephenson and Courtnie Thomas 10. The effect of drug arrest on subsequent drug offending and social bonding Ojmarrh Mitchell 11. How well do the adolescent risk factors predict re-arrest frequency across race/ethnicity among serious adolescent offenders? Alex R. Piquero, Stephanie M. Cardwell, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Wesley G. Jennings and Jennifer M. Reingle Gonzalez 12. Perceptions of race, crime, and policing among Ferguson protesters Jennifer E.
Cobbina, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Kimberly Bender 13. Public opinion on the affluenza defense, race, and sentencing decisions: results from a statewide poll Anne S. Douds, Daniel Howard, Don Hummer and Shaun L. Gabbidon.