The criminalization of youth of color comes in a variety of forms from racial profiling and use of force, to gang laws and the direct filing of juvenile offenders into the adult system. Some people believe the system disproportionately targets youth of color. Join us on Sunday, January 24, as a range of professionals from the legal system to the educational system discuss the criminalization of youth from a variety of different perspectives.
Vanguard Court Watch presents a free community forum and discussion on the criminalization of youth of color.
Panel:
Phil Barros – Department of Corrections, Retired
Natalya Edwards – Sacramento Office of Education, Adult Reentry Department
Joaquin Galvan – UCD Retention Coordinator and Counselor, Retired
Francisco Reveles, Professor, Sacramento State
Karen Soell – Yolo County Deputy Public Defender, Juvenile Cases
Sunday January 24 from 6 to 8
25 N. Cottonwood, Woodland
Gonzales Building, Room 167
Community Room
given our debates over the last few months, surprised this hasn’t drawn more scrutiny.
first, interesting topic that dovetails with the view expressed yesterday that people of color are singled out. we see from the stats, that more youth in yolo is charged with felonies than other counties and nearly double the state average and we see that blacks in yolo (and there aren’t a huge amount) are singled out more.
No surprise and no news, here, DP. Yolo county and Davis are known to be bad places to be black or latino and young. That’s been the “word” for at least the last 20 years.
I would be interested to see stats like this for crime rates as a function of
(1) family income (e.g. poverty, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class & wealthy)
(2) family status (i.e. single, divorced, separated, married)
I suspect nearly all the differences between the various racial groups would disappear under these two groupings. Why the focus on separation by race, when stats based on economic status cut across all races?
That is a fact that we don’t get to read about because it does not serve the racial strife and racism narrative the the left and the left media use for money and power. But is is absolutely true.
When controlled for socioeconomic factors, the crime rate for whites and non-whites is about the same in most parts of the country.
However, the incarceration of blacks when controlled by socioeconomic factors is higher than for whites. Which either points to bias in the judicial system or else explains why the crime rate has fallen as more criminals have been locked away.
“I suspect nearly all the differences between the various racial groups would disappear under these two groupings. Why the focus on separation by race, when stats based on economic status cut across all races?”
I find it interesting how you have constructed this – first you write that you suspect the differences would disappear controlling for economic status, but you don’t seek stats on that and then ask a rather point question about “why the focus…” Assuming that your suspicion is correct.”
My understanding is that the differences hold even when controlling for income, I found reference to that in school discipline, but couldn’t readily locate the data on a quick google.
these data start getting at the issue. Controlling for education level, gender, and age, blacks are much more likely to be in jail than white men.
Causality? See the correlation…
Interesting to see the arrest rate of black juveniles declined so much between 2011 and 2013; particularly in Yolo County–any ideas of what might account for this sharp decline?