Disproportionate Minority Contact Essay

Introduction/Thesis
Disproportionate minority contact reveals biased numbers of African American juveniles taken into custody. African American teens are thirty percent more likely to come into contact with law officials than their white peers. Studies have shown that African American youth have higher incarceration rates, only making up about sixteen percent of the youth population. Many analysts have posed that the juvenile justice system may process minorities and white offenders in different ways; or they may possibly just commit different crimes. The juvenile justice system enforces juvenile laws more severely in the black communities verses suburban neighborhoods (Piquero, 2008). The disproportionate minority contact is the leading
The racial differences that begin with juvenile involvement become greater within communities, they more poverty stricken the more law enforcement. This could also be due to the more urban the community is the more condensed it is with people. Most researchers find that minorities especially blacks are disproportionally represented at most stages of the juvenile justice system beginning with the initial contact with law officials (Piquero, 2008). Minority juveniles are more likely to come into contact with law officials than their white peers. Minority youths are also predicted to have higher levels of aggression than whites youths. Tests have been conducted showing that minority youths have more community stresses causing a higher survival rate (Vazsonyi, 2010). Many minority youths are faced with being thrown away by parents. Which causes them to self support themselves at early stages of life, this may increase their risk of coming into contact with law officials more frequently. Another leading factor to higher aggression levels in many minority youths could be caused by self dependency. The disproportionate minority contact is the leading source to a mass incarceration of minority