Re: child welfare contributing to overrepresentation

["Rick Barth" <rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, there are at least two such studies.  Melissa Jonson-Reid recently published one in American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry and she and I published one in Children and Youth Services Review (using
California data).  They both show that receipt of child welfare services is associated with lower
transitions to the juvenile justice system for African American youth..  

Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor and
Chair of the Doctoral Program
School of Social Work
301 Pittsboro Rd
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3550
(v) 919 962 6516
(f)        962 1486

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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?roger=20newsome?= <roger_newss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:47:25 +0100 (BST)
Subject: child welfare contributing to overrepresentation
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers   <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx


Are there any studies that focus on the child welfare system contributing to the overrepresentation 
of minority youth in the juvenile justice system?

 

Roger



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