JUVENILE JUSTICE

School success and a caring adult are protective factors to increasing resiliency against crime for girls (OJJDP, 2009). African American youth are about 4 times as likely as their White peers to be incarcerated and 5 times as likely to be incarcerated as White youth for drug offenses
An African American male born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime; an African American female has a 1 in 17 chance. A Latino male born in 2001 has a 1 in 6 chance of going to prison in his lifetime; a Latino female has a 1 in 45 chance.
bout 580,000 African American males are serving sentences in state or federal prison, while fewer than 40,000 African American males earn a bachelor’s degree each year.
Only 14 percent of African American, 17 percent of Latino, and 42 percent of White 4th graders are reading at grade level; and only 11 percent of African American, 15 percent of Latino, and 41 percent of White 8th graders perform at grade level in math.

Homicide is the leading cause of death among African American males 15–34. African American males ages 15–19 are almost four times as likely as their White peers to die from a firearm injury and are six times as likely to be homicide victims.
Of the 1.5 million children with an incarcerated parent in 1999, African American children were nearly nine times as likely to have an incarcerated parent as White children; Latino children were three times as likely as White children to have an incarcerated parent.
A child with an incarcerated parent is six to nine times as likely as a child whose parent was not incarcerated to become incarcerated him/herself.

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