Download or read book Juvenile Arrest in America written by Mike Tapia and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapia studies how race, social class, and gang membership interact to shape arrest patterns for American youth. With differences in delinquency level controlled for the various subgroups of youth in the study, a critical test of labeling theory is executed. Modeling how social class and gang membership condition race effects lends more clarity to the contours of arrest risk for AmericaOCOs youth. Gang membership and social class also interact in surprising and interesting ways. Some findings are paradoxical, even counterintuitive. The insights obtained will inform the ongoing federal research initiative known as Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) in new and exciting ways."