Missed Opportunity: Waiver, Race, Data, and Policy Reform

Published May 2, 2012, Mark Soler

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In this article from the Louisiana Law Review, CCLP Executive Director Mark Soler examines the research on waiver of youth to adult court and racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. The article argues that the failure to gather and analyze waiver data by race and ethnicity to help guide policy reform is a missed opportunity, and it proposes new collection and analysis techniques that would enable jurisdictions to change waiver policies and practices to reduce DMC.

Reform areas: Racial-ethnic fairness/DMC