Abstract The extent to which disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the juvenile justice system varies across states remains largely unknown. Using a multijurisdictional sample of 146 counties across four states, the present study utilizes multilevel modeling with cross-level interactions to explore whether there is variation in the influence of race and ethnicity among states across four major juvenile justice processing decisions—preadjudication detention, petition of delinquency, adjudication of delinquency, and judicial disposition. The results highlight the existence of some variation in DMC across the four states, with the variation most pronounced at detention and least pronounced at disposition. The possibility of state variation in DMC underscores the need for state-specific analysis of DMC, what contributes to it, and what can be done to reduce it.

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不成比例的少数族裔接触有多普遍？审查四个州少年司法处理中的种族和族裔差异

摘要青少年司法系统中不成比例的少数群体接触（DMC）在不同国家之间的变化程度仍然未知。本研究使用横跨四个州的146个县的多司法管辖区样本，利用多层次建模与跨层次的交互作用，探讨在四个主要的少年司法处理决定中，各州之间种族和族裔的影响是否存在变化—审判前拘留，请愿书违法，违法判决和司法处置。结果强调了在四个州中DMC的某些变化，这种变化在拘留时最明显，而在处置时最不明显。DMC中状态变化的可能性强调了对DMC进行状态特定分析的必要性，这是由什么原因引起的，