RACIAL DISPARITIES IN YOUTH INCARCERATION PERSIST

In ten years, the United States has cut youth Youth in placement per 100,000 youth incarceration in half.1 While the reduction is impressive, youth involvement in the juvenile justice system Overall 183 continues to impact youth of color disproportionately. [...] Massachusetts 48 Hawaii 47 North Carolina 46 Vermont 33 Connecticut 27 6 The Sentencing Project RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN YOUTH INCARCERATION Disparities are calculated by comparing the incarceration TABLE 2: Youth incarceration rates for white and rates within demographic subgroups comprised of youth Black youth of color with the incarceration rate for white youth in a Black-white % Change. [...] IMPROVING DATA COLLECTION AND RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS DISSEMINATION In order to combat the use of potentially racist Some jurisdictions have begun to look more closely at assumptions and tools in the juvenile justice system the many factors that are contributing to the incarceration and beyond, some suggest that racial impact statements of youth of color. [...] Comparisons across jurisdictions can be a challenge due to the complexities of state laws, but the Office of Juvenile Justice and TWO-YEAR DATA CYCLES Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) could encourage The data presented in this paper are collected every dissemination of this readily available data between other year under the auspices of the federal Office of publication of the national Census of Juv. [...] 16 The Sentencing Project Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persists Josh Rovner February 2021 Related publications by The Sentencing Project: • Black Disparities in Youth Disparities (2017) • Latino Disparities in Youth Disparities (2017) • Native Disparities in Youth Disparities (2017) • The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons (2016) 1705 DeSales Street NW, 8th.