1. American Criminal Justice
While African American youth represents 17% of their age group within the general population, they represent 46% of juvenile arrests (The Sentencing Project 2008). ... (Marc Mauer Congressional Testimony for The Sentencing Project (2009))Whilst African American juvenile youth is 16% of the population, they are 28% of juvenile arrests, 37% of the youth in juvenile jails and an astonishing 58% of the youth sent to adult prisons. (2009 Criminal Justice Primer, The Sentencing Project). ...
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