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

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

Edited by Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, and Kelly C. Burke

Abstract

The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy is the first volume to review the intersecting implications of psychology, public policy, and law with the goal of understanding and ending the challenges facing racial minority youth in America today. Proceeding roughly from causes to consequences—from early life experiences to adolescent and teen experiences—each chapter focuses on a different domain, explains the laws and policies that create or exacerbate racial disparity in that domain, reviews relevant psychological research and its implications for those laws or policies, and calls for next steps. Chapter authors examine how race and ethnicity intersect with child maltreatment (including child sex trafficking, corporal punishment, and memory for and disclosures of abuse), child dependency court decisions, custody and adoption, familial incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline, police–youth interactions, jurors’ perceptions of child and adolescent victims and defendants, and U.S. immigration law and policy. The book is meant to be accessible to all who want to end law- and policy-related racial disparities for children—researchers, students, teachers, social workers and social service administrators, police, attorneys, judges, and the general public. Much of the value of this book lies in its potential to influence law and policy, and to help those working on the front lines understand what they can do to end the legacy of racism for children.

Keywords: race, ethnicity, minority, children, adolescents, law, public policy

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Jul 2020

Print ISBN-13:: 9780190056742

Published online:: Jun 2020

DOI:: 10.1093/med-psych/9780190056742.001.0001

Authors

Margaret C. Stevenson, editor Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Evansville

Bette L. Bottoms, editor Professor of Psychology and Dean Emerita, Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago

Kelly C. Burke, editor Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Front Matter
1 The Legacy of Racism for Children’s Interactions with the Law: Exploring Themes with Psychological Science Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, and Kelly C. Burke
2 Cultural Oppression and Child Sex Trafficking: Exploring the Crossroads of Human Trafficking, Racism, and PolicyThema Bryant-Davis and Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
3 Corporal Punishment Harms All Children: Rethinking the Culture Defense in Expert Witness Testimony in Child Abuse CasesStacey Patton
4 Do Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Shape the Experience and Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse?Lindsay C. Malloy, Jessica E. Sutherland, Lillian Rodriguez Steen, and Jodi A. Quas
5 Juvenile Dependency Court: The Role of Race in Decisions, Outcomes, and Participant ExperiencesKyndra C. Cleveland and Jodi A. Quas
6 Transracial Adoption: Psychology, Law, and PolicyRachel H. Farr and Katie M. Hrapczynski
7 The Impact of Parental Criminal Justice Involvement on Children of ColorKeva M. Miller and Crystallee Crain
8 Racial Disproportionality in the School-to-Prison PipelineKatherine M. Zinsser and Shannon B. Wanless
9 Racial Minority Youths’ Perceptions of the Justice System: Life on the StreetJennifer L. Woolard and Kristin Henning
10 Race and Ethnicity as a Compound Risk Factor in Police Interrogation of YouthIris Blandón-Gitlin, Hayley Cleary, and Alisa Blair
11 Adults’ Perceptions of Law-Involved Minority Children and Youth: Implications for Researchers and ProfessionalsKelly C. Burke, Taylor Petty, Tayler M. Jones, Margaret C. Stevenson, Gent Silberkleit, and Bette L. Bottoms
12 Child Immigration: Barriers Predicated on National Origin and Racial IdentityVeronica T. Thronson and David B. Thronson
13 Children, Race, and Psychology: We Have No Time to LoseGail S. Goodman, LaTonya S. Harris, Deborah Goldfarb, and Yan Wang
End Matter
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