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Advancing Racial Justice Through the Restatement of Children and the Law: The Challenge, the Intent, and the Opportunity
Ist Teil von
The University of Chicago law review, 2024-03, Vol.91 (2), p.345-382
Ort / Verlag
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Law Review
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Restatement of Children and the Law explores the regulation of children in four categories: "Children in Families," "Children in Schools," "Children in the Justice System," and "Children in Society." Each category surveys the laws that facilitate or guard against the intrusion of the state into the lives of young people. Despite the state's ostensibly noble aims, racial bias often frustrates children's interactions with the law. Even state interventions that are meant to protect and aid children often reflect societal biases that disproportionately harm historically marginalized youth. When the state intervenes to protect children at risk of abuse from family members, bias frequently leads the state to remove Black and Indigenous youth from their homes at disproportionately high rates. When schools discipline youth to maintain order and mold them into responsible citizens, stereotypes of violence and myths of intellectual inferiority commonly influence how staff and teachers manage Black and Latino youth and contribute to overly punitive responses to their normal adolescent behaviors. When police intervene to keep youth and the public safe, they often increase surveillance in communities of color and routinely interpret innocent or ambiguous behaviors among Black and Latino youth as suspicious.