NCJ Number
104778
Journal
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Volume: 24 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1987) Pages: 7-22
Date Published
1987
Length
16 pages
Annotation
Taking its cue from Black's 'The Behavior of Law,' this article tests a number of hypotheses concerning the relationship between legal and nonlegal social control in the juvenile justice system.
Abstract
Data collected on a cohort of youth, randomly sampled from eight California counties, are analyzed using a multivariate modeling technique. The results indicate that the quantity of law afforded to offenders at three juvenile justice processing points is dependent, in part, on the amount of nonlegal social control they are already subject to. (Author abstract)