Professor Pamela Oliver Department of Sociology

Disproportionate Minority Confinement

This committee is studying the disproportionate minority confinment of juveniles in Dane County Wisconsin.

Committee Documents

• Report on Oversight Board 9/4/03
• Draft committee mission /objectives statements
  • DMC Board
  • Law Enforcement (revised)
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Educational Issues
  • Community Resource

Reports on reducing DMC

• OJJDP's DMC Technical Assistance Manual Must-reading for DMC committee members. On-line file. [NOTE: On-line version lacks crucial technical appendix. If someone can send me a copy, I can try to scan it in a post it.]
• Report from Annie Casey Foundation on reducing racial disparities in juvenile detention (PDF file) Another report DMC members should read.
• The Sentencing Project's Manual on reducing racial disparities in the adult system (PDF file)

Links

National

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
  • DMC program home page
• OJJDP's DMC Technical Assistance Manual Must-reading for DMC committee members. On-line file.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a repository and index for a great many publications; it has a search engine.
  • List of publications on juvenile minority offenders & minority confinement
  • List of publications on juvenile justice
• Annnie Casey Foundation
  • Juvenile Detention Initiative Lists reports that can be downloaded about successful initiatives
  • Report on reducing racial disparities in juvenile detention (PDF file)
  • Special journal issue on juvenile justice, with several articles

Wisconsin

• Dane County Juvenile Court 2002 Annual Report (PDF file)
• Office of Justice Assistance State support for DMC initiative, as well as many other programs.
  • Crime Statistics
  • Staff Directory

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Questions or Comments? Email Oliver -at- ssc -dot- wisc -dot- edu. Last updated December 25, 2004 © University of Wisconsin.