The chapter highlights challenges to ending youth incarceration and investing in youth in their communities.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68759-5_26Libby RyanThe Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment
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Interpersonal firearm violence is disproportionately borne by young Black men, who are also subject to mass incarceration. Therefore, Black youth living in poverty are indirectly harmed as they often living in homes where fathers have been killed or incarcerated.54 Black men are by far the most ...
Besides pregnancy being a problem due to homelessness, drug abuse, and incarceration are other issues among many foster youth aging out of the system. Foster youth go through a lot while being in the system. This might include the lack of support, bullying, or stress from handling a lot. ...
overpolicing and harsh sentencing of youth creates profound lifelong health effects through a racialized erasure of childhood, particularly for youth of color, as revealed in Human Rights for Kids' (HRFK) report, "Crimes Against Humanity: The Mass Incarceration of Children in the United States." ...
The Hispanic-origin population in the United States has achieved several important schooling gains in the last two decades. Conferrals of master's and doctoral degrees to Hispanics nearly doubled in the past 10 years (Snyder et al. 2016), and rates of medical school completion continue to rise...
The Mass Incarceration in the United States is a major topic of discussion in our society and has raised many questions about our criminal justice system. There are few topics disputed as much in criminal justice as the relationship between race, ethnicity, and criminal outcomes. Specifically, the...
Some symptoms could be a reaction to incarceration. Moreover, our rates might differ somewhat if we had been able to use DSM-IV instead of DSM-III-R criteria. Our findings, drawn from only one site, may pertain only to youth in urban detention centers with similar demographic composition. ...
But in New York, a 19-year-old who is arrested is not only automatically tried as an adult, but also faces the full force of the criminal justice system, including adult sentencing, potential incarceration, and a lifelong permanent record. New York has the opportunity to reject this ...
Furthermore, an underdeveloped area is intergenerational predictors. Post-2001, research slowly transformed into studying the impacts of mass incarceration, using familial incarceration as a predictor of youth crime [270,271,272,273]. While this literature is profound, it is argued that current unders...