OBJECTIVE The present study examined how mothers' personal characteristics, experience with, and attitudes toward the juvenile justice system are associated with their knowledge of the juvenile justice system over time. HYPOTHESES We hypothesized that additional exposure to the system (via sons' rearrests) would be associated with greater legal knowledge. We predicted that White women, women with higher educational attainment, and women who had been arrested would experience greater gains in legal knowledge over time, relative to non-White women, women with lower educational attainment, and women who had not been arrested. Finally, we predicted that mothers' attitudes toward the legitimacy of the justice system would not be associated with their change in legal knowledge. METHOD Mothers (N = 234) of male youth (majority non-White) completed a questionnaire of their knowledge about the juvenile justice system after their sons' 1st arrest (T1) and again 2.5 years later (T2). RESULTS Knowledge did not improve over time, regardless of whether the youth was rearrested. Black mothers displayed less knowledge of the juvenile justice system when their sons were rearrested multiple times. Attitudes toward the justice system were not associated with legal knowledge. CONCLUSIONS These results illustrate the importance of a family educational component to juvenile probation, especially as a vehicle to reduce disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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学过的知识？母亲的法律知识和少年活动。

目的本研究调查了母亲的个人特征，对少年司法系统的经历和态度如何与他们随着时间的推移对少年司法系统的了解有关。假设我们假设（通过儿子的再次逮捕）对系统的额外暴露可能与更多的法律知识有关。我们预测，与非白人妇女，文化程度较低的妇女和未被逮捕的妇女相比，白人妇女，受教育程度较高的妇女和被逮捕的妇女会随着时间的推移获得更多的法律知识。最后，我们预测母亲对司法系统合法性的态度不会与他们法律知识的改变有关。方法男性青年（绝大多数非白人）的母亲（N = 234）填写了一份有关儿子第一次被捕（T1）之后和2.5年后（T2）的关于少年司法制度知识的问卷。结果无论青年人是否再次被捕，知识都不会随着时间的推移而提高。当黑人儿子多次被重新逮捕时，黑人母亲对少年司法制度的了解较少。对司法制度的态度与法律知识无关。结论这些结果说明了家庭教育组成部分对少年缓刑的重要性，尤其是作为减少与少年司法系统不成比例的少数群体接触的工具。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。