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Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy

Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy

Stevenson, Margaret C.
Bottoms, Bette L.
Burke, Kelly C.

Hardcover

Child PsychologyGeneral PsychologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0190056746
ISBN13: 9780190056742
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 1 2020
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.

The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy examines issues that arise when minority children's lives are directly or indirectly influenced by law and public policy. Uniquely comprehensive in scope, this trailblazing volume offers cutting-edge chapters on the intersections of race/ethnicity within the context of child maltreatment, child dependency court, custody and adoption, familial incarceration, school discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline, juvenile justice, police/youth interactions, and jurors' perceptions of child and adolescent victims and defendants. The book also includes chapters focused on troubling situations that are less commonly researched, but growing in importance, including the role of race and racism in child sex trafficking and US immigration law and policy. Thus, individual chapters explore myriad ways in which law and policy shape the lives of marginalized children and adolescents - racial and ethnic minorities - who historically and presently are at heightened risk for experiencing disadvantageous consequences of law and policy. In so doing, The Legacy of Racism for Children can help social scientists to understand and work to prevent the perpetuation of racial discrimination in American laws and public policies.

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