Overrepresentation In The Juvenile Justice System

The Disproportionate Minority Confinement is disproportionate representation of the minority youth in the Juvenile Justice system. DMC became core requirement under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 1974. Minorities were over presented as perpetrators and underrepresented as victims. The DMC has four components: identify to the cause, asset the problem, to identify the causes, and to develop and help to create a plan to decrease the problem. The Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) of Youth: An Analysis of State and Federal Efforts to Address the Issue by Michael Leiber gave the readers a background and summary of the DMC report and focused on the effort put forward by the state and federal to decrease the overrepresentation

of minorities.
Leiber used the case study research method based on the DMC report and analysis the information. This article was interesting and gave insight on the serious problem of overrepresentation of minorities in the criminal justice system. The DMC became a core requirement for the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. DMC was a empirical research study examining the bookings of minority youth. Leiber wanted to further look at how the states and federal intuitions were complying with the rules and regulations. I believe that Leiber used the corrected research method. He used information that was provided to analysis and determine if indeed those responsible for making sure there was a decrease.
While using the case study method Leiber was able to gather information to determine the development of the DMC report.

Lieber gave the audience a in depth and detailed examination of the DMC report. The DMC provided funding for juvenile centers if they’re following the rules, which is to decrease the overrepresentation of minorities. Leiber was able to take a look at how the DMC has developed by analyzing the data collected. Lieber examined the compliance with the identification and assessment stages of the DMC requirements. According to Liber, Minority youth overrepresentation was greatest varied by State. Overrepresentation existed for Black and Hispanic youths, with greater overrepresentation among African American youth than among Hispanic

youth.
The writing style I identified was informal writing style which speaks directly to the audience. Lieber did a great job at giving the entire background to the audience so there’s understanding on the DMC report. It was easier to comprehend the context with all of the details given by the arthour. Lieber has taken what he has gathered to help others know how the DMC is being kept. Lieber found that there were no recent data collected to show the improvement of the DMC report so he’s writing this to inform the audience of the improvement if any. I think Lieber’s writing style was great for this article.
The purpose of this article was given from the beginning. In my opinion the purpose of the report was great because the audience knows just about how is the report significant or not and given insight so there’s no confusion for the readers. Although,I understand the purpose of the report that was noted. I think the purpose was the right amount of length for the audience.
The setup of the article started off with the background and purpose then we into the analysis of the DMC report from Lieber.

I enjoyed reading this article because of the structure. The setup made it easier to comprehend the dynamics but it was too much information. There could have been an shorter and easier way to create the setup. The article started with the introduction which was good then moved to the DMC requirement. I think that the requirements were repeated in the introduction. The DMC requirement session was too much. The audience was given too much to read. Just a simplified version of the requirements would’ve been great. Then came the system perspective focus to address the primary focus to the DMC report “The Children in Custody data and the research by Huizinga and Elliot and by the pope and Feyerherm set the stage and the agenda for addressing DMC…leading to confinement (Feyerherm, 1995).”

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It was a good idea to give a perspective because of the length the audience could get lost. If the article was shorter with enough information to give the readers so they understand would be better. The setup of the each section was great for the details but not for the amount of information.
The article was an interesting read. Overall I enjoyed the information and learned about the DMC, which I knew nothing about before reading this article but it was a lot to read. The background was incredible long, so if I had to change something about the structure I would shorten the background so I could elaborate more on my findings. Lieber gave useful information to help readers understand. I think that Lieber used the correct research method because he had to gather the information from the records to see if there were any improvements or if the requirements were being followed by the states. Lieber found that there wasn’t enough information released that showed how the process was going. Liber used a informational approach to give insight to the audience. I identified the audience as students studying criminal justice, researchers, and those who are involved with the criminal justice as contributors.