Keywords
juvenile crime, minority youth, prisons, incarceration, criminal law
Abstract
This Essay will discuss the high cost of incarcerating substantial numbers of minority juveniles and will advocate alternatives to detention. The author discusses how minority youth are disproportionately affected at multiple stages of the criminal justice process: arrests, detentions, adjudication, and disposition. The Essay further discusses the increased use of the prison system for juveniles. The Essay concludes with several recommendations for how minority youth can be treated more fairly within the system and recommends alternatives to incarceration.
Recommended Citation
Diane Ridley Gatewood,
The High Cost of Juvenile Justice,
20 Fordham Urb. L.J. 659
(1993).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol20/iss3/19