JUVENILE OFFENDERS

Outline: Race and ethnicity of juvenile offenders

Outline: Race and ethnicity of juvenile offenders

Introduction

It is a fact that many researchers made in the past to identify the key factors in the issues involving in Juvenile and adult involvement in offending among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. These differences have prompted competing hypothetical interpretations and public policy debates. However, conclusions about the racial differences in serious and violent juvenile offending reached primarily using individual-level data that, when used alone, yield incomplete results.  (Alderfer, 1977)Thesis Statement

Race and ethnicity of the child may be self-identified there is or has elements ...