COMMITMENT PRACTICES IN INDIANA'S JUVENILE COURTS

• NCJ Number: 13739
• Journal: Juvenile Justice Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Dated: (NOVEMBER 1973) Pages: 25-30
• Author(s): R G CULBERTSON
• Date Published: 1973
• Length: 6 pages
• Corporate Author: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

EXAMINES THE SENTENCING PRACTICES OF INDIANA'S JUVENILE COURT JUDGES AS THOSE PRACTICES RELATE TO THE COMMITMENT OF WHITE AND NON-WHITE YOUTH TO THE INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL.

Abstract

THIS STUDY TESTS TWO HYPOTHESES, THE FIRST STATING THAT NON-WHITE YOUTH COMMITTED TO THE INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL ARE COMMITTED FOR LESS SERIOUS OFFENSES THAN WHITE YOUTH. THE SECOND HYPOTHESIS STATES THAT RURAL YOUTH COMMITTED TO THE INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL ARE COMMITTED FOR LESS SERIOUS OFFENSES THAN URBAN YOUTH. DATA WERE COLLECTED ON 222 BOYS INCARCERATED IN THE INDIANA BOYS' SCHOOL IN FEBRUARY, 1973 FOCUSING ON THE OFFENSE FOR WHICH EACH BOY WAS COMMITTED BY A COUNTY COURT, OR RETURNED BY A PAROLE OFFICER. THE HYPOTHESIS THAT NON-WHITE YOUTHS WERE COMMITTED MORE OFTEN THAN WHITE YOUTHS FOR LESS SERIOUS OFFENSES WAS NOT SUPPORTED. THE HYPOTHESIS THAT RURAL DELINQUENTS ARE COMMITTED MORE OFTEN FOR LESS SERIOUS OFFENSES THAN URBAN DELINQUENTS WAS ALSO NOT SUPPORTED IN THIS STUDY.