{"id":5058648,"date":"2022-11-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malatinonews.com\/?p=5058648"},"modified":"2022-11-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:00:00","slug":"racial-disparities-in-juvenile-justice-start-with-how-black-and-latino-youth-are-arrested-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/maln\/2022\/11\/07\/racial-disparities-in-juvenile-justice-start-with-how-black-and-latino-youth-are-arrested-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice Start with How Black and Latino Youth are Arrested, Report Finds\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black teenagers in Massachusetts are four times more likely to be physically arrested than white teens who are also facing legal trouble, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/doc\/racial-ethnic-disparities-at-the-front-door-of-massachusetts-juvenile-justice-system-understanding-the-factors-leading-to-overrepresentation-of-black-and-latino-youth-entering-the-system\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>new report<\/strong><\/a> released Nov. 1 by the state&#8217;s Juvenile Justice Policy and Data Board. Latino youth are almost three times more likely to experience that kind of arrest than white youth, in a state where 64% of all 12 to 17 year-olds are white. And these racial disparities prevail despite a 50% drop in overall applications for complaint since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new report, which was mandated by a Massachusetts criminal justice reform bill passed in 2018, unveils significant disparities between races in the state\u2019s juvenile justice system and makes recommendations for how to solve those issues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe [racial] disparities are largest at the &#8216;front door&#8217; of the system \u2014 the arrest and application for delinquency complaint stage,\u201d the report said. \u201cThese early disparities matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the full story reported by GBH News at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/news\/local-news\/2022\/11\/02\/racial-disparities-in-the-juvenile-justice-system-start-with-how-black-and-latino-youth-are-arrested-report-finds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Publisher\u2019s Note:<\/em> This story is an aggregate from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GBH<\/a>, Massachusetts Latino News\u2019 (MALN) partner in providing greater visibility and voice to the Hispanic-Latino community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black teenagers in Massachusetts are four times more likely to be physically arrested than white teens who are also facing 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