In this data assignment, you will examine the impact of race and gender on juvenile court processing. The analysis you will perform is only the beginning step in the statistical analysis of the differential handling of juvenile court cases on the basis of race and gender. We will elaborate on and consider the implications of your findings in class.

All these steps take less time than it may appear from the following instructions.

1. Open Easy Access at this address: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/ezajcs/ .
2. Click on <Delinquency Cases>
3. In this assignment, we will consider all years together, so do not check any of the <Year of Disposition> boxes.
   
4. Begin by restricting your analysis to one of the referral offenses by checking the appropriate box.
5. Examine the impact of race on court processing by selecting <Race> as the row variable and the variables representing each stage in the process as the column variables (the same stages you used in the second data analysis assignment. For example, first produce the following table:

Race*	Detained	Not Detained
White	Row Percent	Row Percent
Black	Row Percent	Row Percent

*Omit the "Other" category. It includes too many categories to be meaningful.

6. Repeat this procedure for the same referral offense using <Gender> as the row variable. Create a single table from the several tables you produce to show the differences by race and gender at the different stages of the process. Any variable with only two categories will require only one column for that variable. (Please do not print out each table--this will use too much paper.
7. Repeat this process for race and gender for a different referral offense. Create one table for this referral offense.
8. Choose one of your referral offenses for the remainder of this analysis—one that shows some race differences. The task is to discover if racial differences in juvenile court processing are the same within categories of gender. Select your referral offense by checking the appropriate box. Restrict your analysis to males by checking the appropriate box. Select <Race> as the row variable and the stages in the process as the column variables. Then repeat the process, but this time restricting your analysis to females. Construct one table showing your results.

1. Characterize or describe the differences by race at different stages of the juvenile court process for each of the referral offenses. Does race make a difference? If so, at what stages are the differences the greatest? (Differences of less than 5% essentially represent no difference unless the percentages are very small to begin with, i.e., if the overall percent in a category of processing is less 15, percentage differences of 3 or 4 are meaningful.)
2. Characterize or describe the differences by gender at different stages of the juvenile court process for each of the referral offenses. Does gender make a difference? If so, at what stages are the differences the greatest?
3. Do you conclude that race or gender has the biggest impact on juvenile court processing?
4. Are the differences you discover by race maintained within categories of gender for the referral offense you chose?

Report the results of your analysis in an efficient and thorough summary (absoultely no more than 2 pages, double-spaced, with one inch margins). Turn in your tables with your summary.