The role of contact with the child welfare system (CWS) in legal socialization is not well understood. This is particularly true of youth who have contact with both the juvenile justice system and the CWS, known as dual system (DS) youth. Furthermore, much of the legal socialization research excludes Latinx youth, for whom legal socialization may function differently. Is CWS contact, compared to—and in addition to—juvenile justice system contact, associated with Latinx youths’ attitudes toward police and judges? The present study addresses this research question among a sample of 417 Latinx youth who had been arrested for the first time, 74 of whom were DS youth. Results indicated that DS youth perceive police as less biased, and both police and judges as more legitimate, than their juvenile justice system-only counterparts. CWS contact was not associated with perceptions of situational procedural justice for police or judges, suggesting that CWS contact colors general attitudes toward legal actors’ bias and legitimacy, but not specific interactions with legal actors. The results suggest that CWS contact, above and beyond juvenile justice system contact, has a nuanced impact on children's legal socialization.

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双轨制青年对法律行为者的态度

与儿童福利系统 (CWS) 接触在法律社会化中的作用尚不清楚。对于既接触少年司法系统又接触 CWS 的青年（称为双重系统 (DS) 青年）尤其如此。此外，许多法律社会化研究排除了拉丁裔青年，对他们而言，法律社会化的作用可能不同。与少年司法系统接触相比，CWS 接触是否与拉丁裔青年对警察和法官的态度有关？本研究在 417 名首次被捕的拉丁裔青年样本中解决了这个研究问题，其中 74 名是 DS 青年。结果表明，与只有少年司法系统的同行相比，DS 青年认为警察的偏见更少，警察和法官都更合法。CWS 接触与警察或法官对情境程序正义的看法无关，这表明 CWS 接触影响了对法律行为者偏见和合法性的一般态度，但与法律行为者的具体互动无关。结果表明，CWS 接触，超越了少年司法系统的接触，对儿童的法律社会化有着微妙的影响。