Abstract
Preadjudicatory detention is used for about one-third of all juvenile offenders (Poulin et al., 1980). A protectionist purpose is often held to justify both the need for discretionary decision making in these cases and the absence of due process protections. In this study, we have included measures of juvenile offenders' socioemotional status with indicators of their legal status and social background in a log-linear analysis of detention decisions in New Jersey. The results suggest that protectionism is a major influence on these decisions and is in turn related to the impact of gender.
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