Black youth are more likely than their white peers to commit violent offenses 12) Racial and ethnic differences in juvenile offending….

While much research has been done to correlate race, income level and crime frequency, typically of less serious criminal behavior such as theft or larceny, research has shown there to be no significant correlation between race, income level and crime seriousness.

The term Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) refers to rates of contact with the juvenile justice system among juveniles of a specific minority group that are significantly different from rates of contact for white non-Hispanic juveniles.

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“Racial-ethnic disparities” describes many communities in the United States, in which youth of color experience the juvenile justice system differently from white youth. Youth of color are more likely to be arrested, detained, and confined than white youth, and are more likely to be tried as adults.

In all, twenty-five percent of all serious violent crime involved a juvenile offender. Id. Of these crimes, more than one-half involved a group of offenders.

Often DMC is presented as being caused either by differential offending (i.e., youthsof color commit more crimes or commit more serious crimes) or differential treatment (i.e., the juvenile justice system treats youth of color differently).

Perhaps the most easily understood contributing mechanism to disproportionate minority contact is “differential selection,” the notion that decision-makers in the juvenile justice system (think professionals like police officers, juvenile probation officers and judges) treat youth of color more harshly than European- …

Approximately 40.4 percent of the detentions were African American, 48.1 percent were white, and 11.5 percent were Hispanic.

Instead, female juvenile arrest rates have steadily grown for the past 20 years. Statistically, race plays a role in the types of crime in which youth become involved. The OJJDP, in its reporting, chronicles how many arrests are made in each of four racial categories – white (includes Hispanic youth), black, American-Indian, and Asian.

Of juvenile arrestees for whom ethnicity was reported, 23.6 percent were Hispanic or Latino. Of all adults arrested in 2019, 69.9 percent were White, 26.1 percent were Black or African American, and 4.0 percent were of other races.

Between 2003 and 2013, white juveniles arrest rates (already half that of black juveniles) fell by 49 percent while black juveniles arrest rates fell by 31 percent.

The December 2001 bulletin of the Juvenile Offenders and Victims National Report Series published the following statistics on crime in 1999: White youth were arrested for 72 percent of the crime and made up 79 percent of the youth population. White youth were arrested in 92 percent of DUI cases.