Clinical Decision-Making in the Juvenile Justice System: Effects of Comorbidity on Accuracy of Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Serico
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Treatment Planning ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment

Contexts of Decision Making in the Juvenile Justice System: An Organizational Approach to Understanding Minority Overrepresentation

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna M. Bishop ◽  
Michael Leiber ◽  
Joseph Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Minority Overrepresentation ◽  
Focal Concerns Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Significant advances have been made in our understanding of the origins and dynamics of minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system. Nevertheless, much remains to be learned. In this article, the authors explore the impact of race on juvenile justice processing by examining the organizational contexts in which decisions are made. They offer a theoretical framework that combines insights from organizational theory and the focal concerns perspective and that focuses on the organizational players (action sets) involved in decision making from intake to final disposition. Based on the composition of action sets, and their corresponding value orientations, the authors make predictions regarding the influence of sociodemographic, legal, and extralegal variables at each processing juncture. The empirical test provides a reasonably good fit with the data. Implications for further research are discussed.

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