How to End Racial Bias in Juvenile Justice Risk-Needs Assessments
In a recent Child Trends report, we found that risk and needs assessments may misclassify youth of color as being high risk, which may perpetuate racial biases in the justice system.
That is a cause for concern. Black, Native American, and Latinx youth in the U.S. are already more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts. As the use of risk and needs assessments increases, now is the time to develop strategies to address this systematic bias.
