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This issue of The Compiler takes a look at minority overrepresentation in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
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- Information management and resources: Information resources: Government statistics: Crime statistics
- Information management and resources: Information resources: Government statistics: Demographic statistics
- Law enforcement and the courts: Juvenile justice and rehabilitation
- Law enforcement and the courts: Sentencing
- Social issues and programs: Civil and human rights: Discrimination
- Social issues and programs: Ethnic groups and minorities: African Americans
- State government: State audits and studies
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.Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Summer 2003 NEW DIRECTOR RESEARCH GRANTS TECHNOLOGY Minority overrepresentation in thecriminal and juvenile justice systems Model program seeks to easedisproportionate confinement of minority youth in Illinois.-\- Page By Daniel DightonM inority overrepresentation inthe U.S. criminal and juvenile justice systems has been stud-ied, written about, and debated for decades. Yet, like racial differences inour society in general, the problem persists, and the reasons for the continueddisparity seem to be as complex as the solutions are illusive. Overrepresentation of minorities in thejuvenile justice system, especially among those in secure confinement, hasbeen particularly troubling phenomenon. Nationally, according the Office ofJuvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), minorities in 1997accounted for about one-third of juveniles in the general population but about two-thirds of juveniles held in securedetention facilities. In Illi
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