Female Juvenile Offenders: Article Analysis

According to the article entitled, “ Race, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Antisocial Behavior Among Female Juvenile Offenders” by Preeti Cauhan, N. Dickson Reppuci, Mandi Burnette, and Scott Reiner, they stated that two components are evaluated which are differential involvement and differential selection . Differential involvement consisted of African Americans are overrepresented in the justice system because they are mostly involved in the criminal activity . An example of differential selection is when police department are targeting African American neighborhoods. Police officers are more likely to patrol African American neighborhoods than other neighborhoods. In recent reports , African America juveniles are arrested more than

their counterparts. African America juveniles were arrested committed 46 percent of the crimes. Pope, Lovely, and Hsia conducted a case study to prove the differential selection theory involves race as factor. Race effects the juvenile recidivism (Cauhan, Reppuci, Burnette, Reiner,2011_.
Neighborhood disadvantages consisted of racial disparities. It is divided into two mechanisms such as increased in antisocial behavior and greater policing in disadvantage neighborhoods. According to Census Reports, disadvantage neighborhoods are normally poverty line, percentage of the household is public assistance, and percentage of the head household is female. African Americans are most likely to live disadvantage neighborhoods and high crime rate neighborhoods. It stated that 60 percent of racial disparities are the reason why juveniles have antisocial behavior problems. Neighborhood disadvantages also related to recidivism. Disadvantage neighborhoods are the reason why juveniles commit the same crime (Cauhan, Reppuci, Burnette, Reiner,2011)_.
In the case stud , it involved 141 females. The age group ranged from 13-19 years old. The females were recruited from juvenile detention center in Virginia . It was 50 percent African America, 38 percent white, and 12 percent of other ethnicities. It was no racial difference found among the group criminal charges. It was high rate of aggression and antisocial behavior found among this group of girls. Another group of girls that were evaluated was the group of girls that were released within the last six months. Among the group of girls is that 51 percent were African and White was 43 percent. The way data was collected by interviews and clinical assessments. The components that were measure were neighborhood disadvantages, self-reporting of offending revised , and department of arrested data for juveniles offenders (Cauhan, Reppuci, Burnette, Reiner,2011).