JUVENILE COURT INTAKE An Analysis of Discretionary Decision‐Making
作者:
CHARLES W. THOMAS,
CHRISTOPHER M. SIEVERDES,
期刊:
Criminology
(WILEY Available online 1975)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 4
页码: 413-432
ISSN:0011-1384
年代: 1975
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1975.tb00647.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAn increasing amount of pressure has been directed toward juvenile court operations, much of which has focused on the hypothesized abuse of the broad discretionary decision‐making power that has traditionally been vested in the court. In this paper, we attempt to examine the extent to which factors not directly associated with the nature of the alleged offense may alter the probability that a juvenile w.11 be referred for a formal hearing in the juvenile court, a step which many analysts feel may have the unintended function of promoting rather than inhibiting subsequent involvement in delinquent behavior. Based on an analysis of 346 cases, our findings show that a number of variables that are not of direct legal relevance do exert a significant influence on the dispositional process, but the magnitude of this influence is not as great as many have been led to expect given the orientation of some explanatory models, particularly those based on the propositions of the labeling schoo
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