Juvenile Arrest in America: Race, Social Class, and Gang Membership

Juvenile Arrest in America: Race, Social Class, and Gang Membership
Mike Tapia
December 2011

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-478-0 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / x, 168 pages

Price   $65.00

Description

Tapia studies how race, social class, and gang membership interact to shape arrest patterns for American youth. With differences in delinquency level controlled for the various subgroups of youth in the study, a critical test of labeling theory is executed. Modeling how social class and gang membership condition race effects lends more clarity to the contours of arrest risk for America’s youth. Gang membership and social class also interact in surprising and interesting ways. Some findings are paradoxical, even counterintuitive. The insights obtained will inform the ongoing federal research initiative known as Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) in new and exciting ways.

About the Author

Mike Tapia is a criminologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include race-ethnicity and crime, juvenile justice, street gangs, and community corrections. His work has been published in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, the Journal of Criminal Justice, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and in Youth and Society.