TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - What context matters and at what level? A test of racial/ethnic threat, symbolic threat, and structural inequality perspectives in juvenile court decision-making
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Leiber, Michael J.
A1  - Donnelly, Ellen A.
A1  - Lu, Yunmei
SP  - 234
EP  - 261
VL  - 67
IS  - 2
N2  - Do traditional theories of conflict influence juvenile court decision-making and explain racial/ethnic disparities? Racial/ethnic threat, symbolic threat, and structural inequality perspectives purport social controls increase when groups differ in race, ethnicity, or class. Scholarship tends to test one perspective at a time and use county as a unit of analysis. Taking a comparative approach, this study evaluates whether contextual indicators of these three theories, measured at the county- and zip code-levels, contribute to Black-White and Latino-White disparities in court decisions. Multilevel models reveal weak and partial support for each perspective. More effects appear at the zip code-level, indicating conflict may occur within rather than across courts. Macro-level theories must then be reconsidered to describe modern-day juvenile court proceedings.    Keywords: Juvenile justice <p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128720938344
ID  - ref1
ER  -