Endnotes
1 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act § 223(a)(23).2 Selection bias is a process in which justice systems scrutinize the actions or histories of minority juveniles more carefully or more strictly than they do the actions or histories of nonminority juveniles. For example, police officers are generally more likely to stop and question a group of minority youth, whereas they might simply glance at a similar group of nonminority youth. Similarly, prosecutors have been shown to deem prior justice involvement on the part of a minority youth as a stronger indication of a predilection to crime and a danger to society than the same record attributed to a nonminority juvenile.
3 For a full description of the analytic model, see Pope and Feyerherm, 1993.
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