Author : Brittany Cangialosi
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (193 download)
Book Synopsis The Impact of Mock Juvenile Probation Officer Emotion and Justice-involved Juvenile Race on Mock Juvenile Probation Officer Decision Making by : Brittany Cangialosi
Download or read book The Impact of Mock Juvenile Probation Officer Emotion and Justice-involved Juvenile Race on Mock Juvenile Probation Officer Decision Making written by Brittany Cangialosi and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juvenile probation officers are often cited as the gatekeepers of the juvenile justice system and have immense discretion on the recommendations for the future of youth that are under their care. Although research has begun to examine the factors that impact juvenile probation officer decision making, none to date has investigated the impact of justice-involved youth race and juvenile probation officer emotions on juvenile probation officer decision-making processes. The current study employed a 2 (Justice-involved youth race: Black vs. White) x 3 (Mock juvenile probation officer emotion: anger vs. sadness vs. neutral/control) between-subjects design to investigate the impact of elicited anger and sadness and justice-involved youth race on mock juvenile probation officer decision making. Participants (N = 393) completed an emotion elicitation task, reviewed a petition describing a justice-involved youth, recommended sentencing, and then completed measures related to their perceptions of the justice-involved youth (e.g., perceptions of dangerousness and approach to supervision). Findings suggest race impacted sentencing recommendations, but emotion did not moderate this relationship. Exploratory analyses revealed that anger and perceptions of youth dangerousness impacted the care-oriented approach to supervision. Future research is needed to explore the impact of juvenile probation officer emotion and justice-involved youth race on juvenile probation officer decision-making processes. Implications and future directions are discussed.